Is this the reason why Sunni (+Shia and Sufi) Muslims have excessive love for Ali ibn Abi Talib?
“Learn from Ali how to fight without your ego participating. God’s lion did nothing that didn’t originate from his deep center.” “I am God’s Lion, not the lion of passion…. I have no longing except for the One. When a wind of personal reaction comes, I do not go along with it. There are many winds full of anger, and lust and greed. They move the rubbish around, but the solid mountain of our true nature stays where it’s always been.” Let us add luster to this work by telling an exemplary story concerning Hazrat Ali, the “Gate of Knowledge and Lion of Allah.” At the Battle of the Ditch, the noble Imam ‘Ali had knocked an enemy soldier to the ground and was raising his sword to kill him, when the unbeliever spat in the blessed face of the Valiant Lion, may Allah be pleased with him. Imam ‘Ali at once stood still and refrained from killing his enemy. Hardly able to believe his own eyes, the unbeliever asked: “Why have you spared me, O gracious one?” To this, the noble ‘Ali replied: “Your
