Now then, O ‘ people(1) of Iraq! You are like the pregnant woman who, on completion of the period of pregnancy delivers a dead child and her husband is also dead and her period of widowhood is long while only remote relation inherits her. By Alláh, I did not come to you of my own accord. I came to you by force of circumstances. I have come to know that you say `Alí speaks lie. May Alláh fight you! Against whom do I speak lie? Whether against Alláh? But I am the first to have believed in him. Whether against His Prophet? But I am the first who testified to him. Certainly not. By Alláh it was a way of expression which you failed to appreciate, and you were not capable of it. Woe to you. I am giving out these measures of nice expression free of any cost. I wish there were vessels good enough to hold them.
Certainly, you will understand it after some time. (Qur’án, 38:88)