Alone with the Alone

Quote No. 112 from Ali Ibn Abi Talib

On the Divine and the Soul

يا سيّدي ومولاي أُقسم صادقًا، لئن تركتَني ناطقًا لأضجّنّ إليكَ بين أهلها ضجيجَ الآملين، ولأصرخنّ إليكَ صراخَ المستصرخين، ولأبكينّ عليكَ بكاءَ الفاقدين، ولأناديّنكَ أين كنتَ يا وليَّ المؤمنين، يا غايةَ آمالِ العارفين، يا غياثَ المستغيثين.

My Master, my Lord, I swear to you in earnest: if you leave me with a voice, I will cry out to you from among the people of the Fire as the hopeful cry out. I will call to you as those pleading for rescue call out. I will weep for you as the bereaved weep. And I will call out, wherever you are: O Guardian of the believers, O final hope of those who know you, O Relief of those who seek relief.

No. 112

These quotes come from Alone with the Alone, a 264-page bilingual hardcover of 113 quotes from Ali Ibn Abi Talib, with footnotes and an afterword.

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