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He never fled from the battlefield.
Everyone fled but he did not flee.
Even in the most difficult of times,
in the hardest of circumstances! Why? Because he was an enlightened being.
He didn't have - he was not driven by fear or greed. He had transcended that bound.
Death was not something he was afraid of.
When Muawiyah wrote to him and said to him
"O' Son of Abi Talib I will bring and army with me from Damascus and fight you".
Read Nahjul Balagha (The Peak of Eloquence). What the Imam wrote back to him!
He said "O' Son of Abu Sufiyan are you threatening me with death?
By Allah the son of Abi Talib is more at ease with death than a baby is with the bossum of his mother!"
These are the words of Imam Ali (as) in Nahjul Balagha.
He is telling Muawiyah don't scare me with death.
I'm beyond death.
If anything his desire was martyrdom.
He kept crying for that. At Badr, at Uhud.
When you read the books of history he kept coming to the Prophet (PBUH)
and saying O' Prophet why did I not get martyrdom?
And the prophet kept promising him you will get martyrdom.
And his words when he attained it was what? "By the Lord of Ka'ba I am successful!"
He didn't say it when he killed Marhab. He didn't say it when he defeated anyone.
But when he was slain and attained martyrdom he said now I have achieved what I was waiting for.
"Fuztu Wa Rabil Kaba"