سورة هود

Imam Baqir (peace be upon him): وَ مَنْ أَظْلَمُ مِمَّنِ افْتَری عَلَی اللهِ کَذِباً أُولئِکَ یُعْرَضُونَ عَلی رَبِّهِمْ وَ یَقُولُ الْأَشْهادُ هؤُلاءِ الَّذینَ کَذَبُوا عَلی رَبِّهِمْ أَلا لَعْنَةُ اللهِ عَلَی الظَّالِمینَ، الَّذینَ یَصُدُّونَ عَنْ سَبیلِ اللهِ وَ یَبْغُونَها عِوَجاً [And who is more unjust than one who forges a lie against Allah? These will be brought before their Lord, and the witnesses will say: these are they who lied against their Lord. Behold, the curse of Allah is upon the wrongdoers — those who bar from the path of Allah and seek to make it crooked]; they are four kings from Quraysh who ruled one after the other.

The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family): Hudhayfa narrates from the Prophet (peace be upon him and his family): "Allah the Exalted made five things obligatory upon His servants, but the people accepted four and abandoned one." They asked: "What are those four things?" He said: "Prayer, zakat, hajj and fasting." They asked: "What is the one they abandoned?" He said: "The wilayah of Ali ibn Abi Talib (peace be upon him)." They asked: "Has Allah made this matter obligatory?" He said: "Yes! Allah says: وَ یَقُولُ الْأَشْهادُ هؤُلاءِ الَّذِینَ کَذَبُوا عَلی رَبِّهِمْ ... أُولئِکَ الَّذِینَ خَسِرُوا أَنْفُسَهُمْ وَ ضَلَّ عَنْهُمْ ما کانُوا یَفْتَرُونَ [And the witnesses will say: these are they who lied against their Lord ... those are the ones who have lost themselves, and what they used to forge has strayed from them]."

Imam Baqir (peace be upon him): Abu Ubaydah said: I asked Imam Baqir (peace be upon him) about the interpretation of the verse: وَ مَنْ أَظْلَمُ مِمَّنِ افْتَرَی عَلَی اللهِ کَذِبًا أُوْلَئِکَ یُعْرَضُونَ عَلَی رَبِّهِمْ یَقُولُ الْأَشْهادُ هؤُلاءِ الَّذینَ کَذَبُوا عَلی رَبِّهِمْ أَلا لَعْنَةُ اللهِ عَلَی الظّالِمینَ الَّذِینَ یَصُدُّونَ عَن سَبِیلِ اللهِ وَ یَبْغُونَهَا عِوَجًا [And who is more unjust than he who forges a lie against Allah? These shall be brought before their Lord, and the witnesses shall say: These are they who lied against their Lord. Now surely the curse of Allah is on the unjust — those who turn away from the path of Allah and seek to make it crooked]. The Imam (peace be upon him) said: 'That is, they want to divert the path of Allah from its straight course; they distort it through ta'wil (interpretation) and exegesis, and they describe it with that very characteristic of deviation from the straight path.'

Imam Sadiq (peace be upon him): What is meant by الْأَشْهادُ is the Imams (peace be upon them).

Ali ibn Ibrahim (may Allah have mercy on him): What is meant by الْأَشْهادُ is the Imams (peace be upon them).

Imam Baqir (peace be upon him): What is meant by الْأَشْهادُ is us.

Ali ibn Ibrahim (may Allah have mercy on him): أَلاَ لَعْنَةُ اللهِ عَلَی الظَّالِمِینَ [Now surely the curse of Allah is on the unjust] [meaning] those who wronged the family of the Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) of their right.

Imam Mahdi (may Allah hasten his noble reappearance): Muhammad ibn Ja'far al-Asadi says: Among the things that reached me from Shaykh Abu Ja'far Muhammad ibn Uthman al-Amri in answer to my questions [addressed] to Sahib al-Zaman (may Allah hasten his noble reappearance) is [this]: "In answer to your question about someone who has some of our wealth in his hands and considers it lawful, or disposes of it without our permission just as he would dispose of his own wealth, [I say]: 'Whoever does this is cursed, and on the Day of Resurrection we shall be his adversaries.' The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) said: 'Whoever from [the wealth of] my kindred considers lawful what Allah has forbidden [and disposes of it] is cursed on my tongue and on the tongue of every prophet whose [supplication] is answered. So whoever wrongs us is among those who wrong us, and the curse of Allah is upon him, because of the word of Allah the Mighty and Majestic who said: أَلا لَعْنَةُ اللهِ عَلَی الظَّالِمِینَ [Now surely the curse of Allah is on the unjust].'"

Imam Baqir (peace be upon him): In the Torah, the Gospel and the Psalms there is no one whose name and whose father's name is not [known] with us. In the Torah it is written: أَلا لَعْنَةُ اللهِ عَلَی الظَّالِمِینَ [Now surely the curse of Allah is on the unjust].

Imam Sajjad (peace be upon him): Yazid said to Imam Zayn al-Abidin (peace be upon him): "Your father sought something for which he was not worthy; so Allah killed him at the hands of one who was worthy of it. What then is my sin in this affair?" The Imam (peace be upon him) said: "Allah says: أَلا لَعْنَةُ اللهِ عَلَی الظَّالِمِینَ [Now surely the curse of Allah is on the unjust]; in your view, in this verse has Allah cursed the killer of Imam Husayn (peace be upon him) or Imam Husayn himself?" Yazid was [unable to answer and was] dumbfounded.