O servants of Allah! The most beloved servant to Allah among His servants is the one whom He has given the strength to oppose his own self. Whose inner garment is sorrow and outer garment is fear. The lamp of guidance is lit in his heart, and he has prepared for the coming day. He considers what is far (death) as near, and has made hardships easy for himself. When he looks, he gains insight and knowledge. When he remembers (Allah), he is eager to act. He has quenched his thirst from the sweet and pleasant water of guidance, reaching its shore through Allah's guidance. He drank it at first sip and set out on a smooth path. He has cast off the garment of desires, free from all worldly fears, focused on one goal. He stays away from the state of misguidance and the lustful pursuits of the lustful. He has become a means to open the doors of guidance and close the doors of destruction and misguidance. He has seen his path and is proceeding on it. He has recognized the minaret (of guidance) and reached it by crossing the streams. He has grasped firm means and strong supports. He is in such light due to certainty that is like the brightness of the sun. He has risen only for Allah's sake to fulfill the highest purpose, to solve every difficulty that comes before him appropriately, and to refer every branch to its root and source. He is one who spreads light in darkness, resolves ambiguous matters, untangles complex problems, removes difficulties, and guides in vast deserts. When he speaks, he explains fully, and sometimes he remains silent when silence is the means of safety. Since he has done everything for Allah, Allah has made him His own. He is the mine of Allah's religion and like a nail driven into His earth. He has made justice obligatory for himself, so the first step of his justice is to keep desires away from his soul. When he speaks the truth, he also acts upon it. There is no limit of goodness that he has not intended, and no place where goodness is possible that he has not aimed for. He has given the reins of his affairs to the Quran. It is his guide and leader. Where his heavy burden descends, there his provisions descend, and where his destination is, there he also sets up his camp. (In contrast) there is another person who has (forcibly) named himself a scholar, though he is not a scholar. He has gathered ignorance and misguidance from the ignorant and misguided, and has spread traps of deception and webs of falsehood for people. He bends the Quran to his opinion and truth to his desires. He removes the fear of major sins from people's hearts and diminishes the importance of grave sins. He says he pauses in doubts, yet he is immersed in them. He claims to stay away from innovations, yet his entire activity is in them. His appearance is human, but his heart is like that of beasts. He does not know the door of guidance to reach it, nor does he recognize the door of misguidance to turn away from it. He is a corpse among the living. Where are you going, and where are you being turned? While the banners of guidance are raised, the signs are clear and manifest, and the minarets of truth are erected. Where are you being misled, and why are you wandering here and there? While the progeny of your Prophet is among you, who are the reins of truth, the flags of religion, and the tongues of truthfulness. Give them the best place you can understand from the Quran, and descend upon their spring of guidance like thirsty camels. O people! Listen to this saying of the Seal of the Prophets (peace be upon him) who said: 'Whoever among us dies is not dead, and whoever among us becomes decayed (apparently) never truly becomes decayed.' Do not speak about things you do not know, for most of the truth is in things with which you are unfamiliar. Consider excused the one against whom you have no argument, and that is me. Have I not acted upon the Greater Weight (Quran) before you, and placed the Lesser Weight (Ahl al-Bayt) among you? I have planted the banner of faith among you, defined the limits of lawful and unlawful, clothed you with the garment of safety through my justice, and spread the carpet of good conduct for you through my words and actions, always coming to you with pure morals. Do not apply your opinion to things whose depths your sight cannot reach, and whose limits your thought cannot attain. A part of this sermon is about Banu Umayyah: Until those who speculate will think that the world will remain bound to Banu Umayyah's skirt, giving them all its benefits, and descending them to its pure spring, and the sword and whip of this ummah will always be on their necks and backs. Whoever thinks this, thinks wrongly. Rather, these are but a few drops of honey from life's pleasures, which they will suck for a while, then spit out entirely.