سورة الحجر

Imam Ali (peace be upon him): It is narrated from Imam Baqir (peace be upon him): The Commander of the Faithful (peace be upon him) said regarding the verse: رُّبَمَا یَوَدُّ الَّذِینَ کَفَرُواْ لَوْ کَانُواْ مُسْلِمِینَ [Often will those who disbelieve wish that they had been Muslims]: "It refers to me. When I come out with my followers and Uthman ibn Affan comes out with his followers, and we kill Banu Umayyah — at that time: often will they wish that they had been Muslims."

Imam Baqir (peace be upon him): Abdullah ibn Ata al-Makki asked Imam Baqir (peace be upon him) about the meaning of the verse رُبَما یَوَدُّ الَّذِینَ کَفَرُوا لَوْ کانُوا مُسْلِمِینَ [Often will those who disbelieve wish that they had been Muslims]. The Imam said: "On the Day of Resurrection, a caller will call out, and all creatures will hear his call: 'Be aware! No one will enter Paradise unless he is a Muslim (submitted to the commands of Allah)!' On that day the disbelievers will wish that they had [in this world] submitted to the wilayah of Amir al-Mu'minin (peace be upon him)." And he said: "One day this noble verse [which follows] was revealed to the Prophet (peace be upon him and his family): الظَّالِمُونَ, meaning [those who wronged] the household of Muhammad (peace be upon him and his family) in their right, لَمَّا رَأَوُا الْعَذَابَ, when they see the punishment with their own eyes. And that punishment is Imam Ali (peace be upon him) himself. They will say: هَلْ إِلَی مَرَدٍّ مِنْ سَبِیلٍ [Is there any way of return?], meaning: is there any way for us to return to the world so that this time we might accept the caliphate of Ali (peace be upon him)? And Allah says about them: وَ تَراهُمْ یُعْرَضُونَ عَلَیْها [And you will see them exposed to it], meaning their souls will be brought to Hell, meaning they look at Ali (peace be upon him) مِنْ طَرْفٍ خَفِیٍّ [with a stealthy glance], out of the corner of the eye. وَ قالَ الَّذِینَ آمَنُوا [And those who believed will say] — meaning those who have believed in the family of Muhammad (peace be upon him and his family) — they will say: 'The true losers are those who have lost themselves and their families on the Day of Resurrection; be aware that the wrongdoers (on that day), regarding the right of the household of Muhammad, are in everlasting punishment!'"

Imam Sadiq (peace be upon him): When the Day of Resurrection comes, a caller from Allah will call out: "No one will enter Paradise unless he is a Muslim." یَوَدُّ الَّذِینَ کَفَرُوا لَوْ کَانُوا مُسْلِمِینَ [Those who disbelieve will wish that they had been Muslims].

Imam Sadiq (peace be upon him): On the Day of Resurrection a caller will call out in such a way that all people will hear [that today]: "No one will enter Paradise unless he is a Muslim." At that point, many will wish that they had been Muslims!

Imam Sadiq (peace be upon him): As for the Day of Resurrection, we and our Ahl al-Bayt will accept every recompense on behalf of our Shia. Indeed, upon the A'raf between Paradise [and Hell] will be Muhammad (peace be upon him and his family), Ali (peace be upon him), Fatimah (peace be upon her), al-Hasan (peace be upon him), al-Husayn (peace be upon him) and the pure ones of their family. We will see some of our Shia in those arenas, and any of them who has fallen short in some of its hardships — we will send to them the best of our Shia such as Salman (may Allah have mercy on him), al-Miqdad (may Allah have mercy on him), Abu Dharr (may Allah have mercy on him) and their like in the era that follows them, and in every era until the Day of Resurrection. Like hawks and falcons they will swoop down upon them, and as a bird of prey seizes its prey in its mouth, they will take them and in groups bring them into Paradise. And indeed, we will send the best of our Shia like doves upon our last lovers, and just as the dove picks up seeds from the ground, they will pick them up from the arenas and bring them into Paradise into our presence. Then one of our Shia who has fallen short in his deeds — after having safeguarded the wilayah (guardianship), taqiyyah (dissimulation) and the rights of his brothers — will be brought. A number of the enemies of the Ahl al-Bayt, more than a hundred up to a hundred thousand of them, will be placed before him and it will be said: 'These are your ransom from the Fire.' So these believers are entered into Paradise, and those enemies of the Ahl al-Bayt are entered into the Fire. This is the meaning of the saying of Allah: رُبَما یَوَدُّ الَّذِینَ کَفَرُوا [Often will those who disbelieve wish] — the disbelievers, that is, in the wilayah — لَوْ کانُوا مُسْلِمِینَ [that they had been Muslims] in the world, submitting to the Imamate, so that their opponents would be made their ransom from the Fire.

The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family): When the people of the Fire gather in the Fire and [see that] among them are some Muslims whom Allah has willed [to be in the Fire because of their sins], the disbelievers will say to the Muslims: 'Were you not Muslims?' They will say: 'Yes indeed!' The disbelievers will say: 'Then your Islam did not benefit you, and in the end you have ended up with us in the Fire.' They will say: 'We had sins for which we were seized.' Allah will hear their words and command that every [believing] Muslim who is in the Fire be brought out of it. At that time the disbelievers will say: 'Would that we too had been Muslims.'