Slave, Submissive
وَ قَالَ عَلِيُّ بْنُ أَبِي طَالِبٍ ع سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص يَقُولُ أَنَا وَ عَلِيٌّ أَبَوَا هَذِهِ الْأُمَّةِ وَ لَحَقُّنَا عَلَيْهِمْ أَعْظَمُ مِنْ حَقِّ أَبَوَيْ وِلَادَتِهِمْ فَإِنَّهَا نُنْقِذُهُمْ إِنْ أَطَاعُونَا مِنَ النَّارِ إِلَى دَارِ الْقَرَارِ وَ نَلْحَقُهُمْ مِنَ الْعُبُودِيَّةِ بِخِيَارِ الْأَحْرَارِ
And Ali-asws Bin Abu Talib-asws said: ‘I-asws heard Rasool-Allah-saww saying: ‘I-saww and Ali-asws are two fathers of this community, and our-asws rights upon them are greater than the rights of their biological fathers, for we-asws are retrieving them – if they obey us-asws – from the Fire to the House of tranquillity, and we-asws will save them from the slavery, with the good free ones (an extract).[1]
[1] بحار الأنوار (ط – بيروت)، ج23، ص: 259, H. 8