When `Ali (as) went to the Messenger of Allah (s) in the conquest of Khaybar, the Messenger of Allah (s) said to him: If sects from my Nation would not claim for you what the Christians have claimed for the Messiah Jesus the son of Mary, I would have said something about you today that would cause the people to take the dust from beneath your feet and seek treatment from it due to the excellence of your purity. However, it is enough [to say] that you are from me and I am from you. You inherit from me, and I inherit from you. You are to me as Harun was to Musa, except there is no prophet after me. You fight upon my Sunna, and tomorrow you will be upon the Pond as my vicegerent. You will be the first to return to me at the Pond, and you will be the first to be gowned with me. You will be the first to enter Paradise from my Nation, and your followers will be upon pulpits made of light with illuminated faces around me. I will intercede for them, and tomorrow they will be my neighbours in Paradise. Your war is my war, and your peace is my peace. Your secret is my secret, and your pronouncement is my pronouncement. Your peace at heart is like my peace. Your descendants are my descendants. You will encounter my enemies. The truth is with you, and the truth is upon your tongue, in your heart, and upon your forehead. Faith is mixed into your flesh and blood just as it is mixed into my flesh and blood. No one that hates you will return to me at the Pond, and no one that loves you will be absent from it – they will return to the Pond with you. He said: So, `Ali (as) fell in prostration, then said: “Praise be to Allah, who blessed me with Islam, and taught me the Qur'an, and made me love the best of people, the Seal of Prophets and Master of Messengers; as an eminence and a favour from Him.” He said: So, the Prophet (s) said: Were it not for you, the believers would not be recognizable after me.