Praise be to Allah and blessings be on my Muhammad and his purified and chosen progeny. So now, O people who deceive, forsake and contrive, it is you who weep.  May Allah not stop your tears and may your chests burn incessantly with the fire of grief and sorrow.  Your example is that of a woman who assiduously prepares a strong rope and then entwines it herself, wasting her own hard labor.

You swear such false oath which bear no truthfulness at all.  Beware that you have nothing except vain talk, false pride, mischief, malice, evil, rancor, falsehood, and sycophancy.  Beware that your position is that of slave maids and purchased girls who are but the meanest beings.  Your hearts are full of enmity and rancor.  You are like the vegetation that grows on filthy soil and is yet green, or like the mortar applied onto graves.

You should know that you have perpetrated a very morbid deed and have prepared evil provision for your next life, because of which Allah’s anger is against you and His wrath would fall upon you.

Now you are crying aloud and wailing over my brother!  Yes, cry, because it behooves you to cry.  Yes, weep profusely and laugh less, because you have earned the shame of killing the Imam of the age.  The stain of his blood is now on your clothes and you cannot remove it, nor can you secure acquittal from the charge of killing the son of the last Prophet of Allah, the Chief of the youths in Paradise.  You have killed a person who was your support, the knower of the Sunnah and the ultimate arbitrator at the time of your mutual disputations.  He was the basis of your talks and actions.  He was your place of refuge in the event of hardship.

Know that you have been guilty of the most heinous crime in the world and have prepared the worst provision for the Day of Judgment.  Curses be upon you and may destruction overtake you.  Your efforts have gone wasted and you have been ruined.  You have transacted a losing trade.  You have become the victim of Allah’s wrath and have fallen into ignominy and degradation.

People of Kufa, woe upon you.  Do you realize which piece of Mohammed’s heart you have severed, which pledge you have broken, whose blood you have shed and whose honor you have desecrated?  You have certainly committed such a crime because of which the sky may fall down on the earth, the earth may crack and mountains crumble to pieces.  By killing your Imam, you have committed an
evil act of rebellious behavior and heedlessness towards dignity.  In view of all these acts would you wonder if blood should rain down from the sky?  In any case you should mind that the chastisement of the Next World will be severe.  At that junction there will be no one to help you.  Do not regard the time and opportunity given to you by Allah as small and unimportant, and do not be satisfied with it because Allah is not quick in acting it does not imply that He is unable.  For him there is no fear that the time of vengeance is passing away.   Allah is certainly keeping watch over you."