The one who struggles in the Way of Allah-azwj
فَقَامَ عَلِيٌّ ع فَقَالَ الْعَجَبُ لِطُغَاةِ أَهْلِ الشَّامِ حَيْثُ يَقْبَلُونَ قَوْلَ عَمْرٍو وَ يُصَدِّقُونَهُ وَ قَدْ بَلَغَ مِنْ حَدِيثِهِ وَ كَذِبِهِ وَ قِلَّةِ وَرَعِهِ أَنْ يَكْذِبَ عَلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص وَ قَدْ لَعَنَهُ سَبْعِينَ لَعْنَةً وَ لَعَنَ صَاحِبَهُ الَّذِي يَدْعُو إِلَيْهِ فِي غَيْرِ مَوْطِنٍ
Imam Ali-asws stood up and said: ‘The strangeness of the tyrants of the people of Syria where they are accepting the words of Amro and are ratifying him, and it has reached from his narrations, and his lies, and scarcity of his devoutness that he tends to lie upon Rasool-Allah-saww, and he-saww cursed him with seventy curses, and cursed his companion (Muawiya) who called him (Amro) to (support) him (Muawiya) in other place.
مَا لَقِيتُ مِنْ هَذِهِ الْأُمَّةِ مِنْ كَذَّابِيهَا وَ مُنَافِقِيهَا لَكَأَنِّي بِالْقُرَّاءِ الضَّعَفَةِ الْمُتَهَجِّدِينَ رَوَوْا حَدِيثَهُ وَ صَدَّقُوهُ فِيهِ وَ احْتَجُّوا عَلَيْنَا أَهْلَ الْبَيْتَ بِكَذِبِهِ إِنَّا نَقُولُ خَيْرُ هَذِهِ الْأُمَّةِ أَبُو بَكْرٍ وَ عُمَرُ وَ لَوْ شِئْتُ لَسَمَّيْتُ الثَّالِثَ
What I-asws am facing from this community, from its liars and its hypocrites. It is as if I-asws am with the (Quran) readers, ‘الْمُتَهَجِّدِينَ’ the Mujtahids, the reporters of his Ahadeeth, and they are ratifying him regarding it, and they are arguing against us-asws, People-asws of the Household of his lies, that we-asws are saying that the best of this community are Abu Bakr and Umar. And if I-asws had so desires, I-asws would have named the third one (an extract).[1]
In another Hadith,
وَ قَالَ ع عَالِمٌ أَفْضَلُ مِنْ أَلْفِ عَابِدٍ وَ أَلْفِ زَاهِدٍ وَ أَلْفِ مُجْتَهِد
(Amir Al-Momineen-asws says): A scholar is better than 1,000 ‘Abid’ (worshipers), who is better than 1,000 ‘Zahid’[2] and a Zahid is better than 1,000 Mujtahid’.[3]
[1] Bihar Al-Anwaar – V 33, The book of Fitna (Strife) And Ordeals, Ch 18 H 513
[2] Who abstain from committing sins
[3] تحفالعقول 364 ; بحارالأنوار 75 247 باب 23-