SHAFAQNA – Addressing the hypocritical scholars who abandoned the issue of “enjoining good and prohibiting bad” Imam Hussain (AS) said: O’ the powerful group who is known for knowledge and good deeds and you are among people in the name of God and the religion. The noble one respects your authority, and the weak one respects you, and the one who prefers you to himself whilst you have no superior right to him. You are seen as intermediaries to those who think their wishes are impossible to be attained, and you walk with the aura of kings and grandees. But you deprived the weak ones their rights, and attained whatever you thought you were entitled to. But despite all these, you still desire Divine Heaven, and want to be close to prophets and be saved from God’s torments [1]?
[1] Tohaful Oqool, Page 237.