1. Ali called out, then took his place atop his pulpit,

    And made the people hear: “I am the master of the gray-haired,

  2. And in me—and the best speech is the truest—

    There is indeed a pattern from God’s prophet Job.

  3. And God will reunite my household, just as

    His two hands reunited Jacob’s household after its dispersal.

  4. And God will bestow on me, from the bounty of His mercy,

    What is granted only to one endowed with revelation.

  5. And God will send forth a man from my kin,

    Who will annihilate Umayya’s clan—a promise that will not prove false.”

  6. This is a wondrous report from Abu Hasan,

    Related—and he used to bring forth wonders.

Sol 6.1