(Walāya). So, refer [the difficult matters] back to us and do not reject against us.'"

He said: "The rejecter leapt toward his brother who had treated him as a liar, standing on his feet, and said to him: 'O my master, I ask for excuse; I shall never return to the likes of it again.' He [the stranger] said: 'May Allah forgive you; seek excuse from your brother, return to your Master, and never return to the likes of it again.'" He [the narrator] said: "So he threw himself upon his brother's foot, kissing it and seeking his excuse, and he excused him. He [the stranger] said to them: 'Be thus always: lawful for you with yourselves, forbidden for you with others.' Then he vanished from them and they saw him no more."

And I heard from Amir Al-Muminin — Exalted Glory — that he said to a group of his Shia gathered for discussion: "Do you unify (tuwaḥḥidūn)?" They said: "Yes, O our Master." He said to them: "Indeed, I pass by you while you are in this state; were it not that you would be put to trial, I would appear to you out of yearning for your discourse." And he recited the word of Allah — Exalted Glory —: «O you who have believed, do not approach prayer while you are intoxicated until you know what you are saying, nor in a state of janaba, except those passing through [a place of prayer], until you have washed your whole body»¹. He mentioned that — Exalted Glory — and said: "As for the prayer, it is the remembrance of Allah — Exalted Glory —. As for intoxication, it is what occupies the heart with other than Him — Exalted Glory —. As for purity (ṭahāra), it is from the adversaries, the opposers, and the peers." Allah — Exalted Glory — said: «It is He who prays over you, and His angels, that He may bring you out from darknesses into the light. And He is ever, to the believers, Merciful»². "Do you think He prays over the believer the prayer that the believer prays to Allah — Exalted Glory —? He intended that He 'prays', meaning He makes known