Ali About Ahlul Bayt:

In Sermon 239, page 357, Ali describes the status of Ahlul Bayt:

They [Ahlul Bayt] are the life for [Divine] knowledge and the death keel to ignorance.

▪    Their forbearance tells you of their knowledge, and their behavior about their integrity

▪    Their silence tells you of their wisdom.

▪    Never do they deviate from Truth, nor [among themselves] will they differ about it.

▪    Ahlul Bayt are the pillars in support of Islam.  They are the haven to take protection in.

▪    With them the Right has returned to its proper place, and because of them Falsehood has retreated from its place and its tongue rooted out.

▪    Ahlul Bayt understood the correct spirit of Islam, attentively and painstakingly.

▪    They carried Islam's precepts into practice.   And all this was not by heresy or from narrators.

▪    Lo! The narrators of knowledge are many but those who truly understand it are only few.