Obligations are not Fulfilled without the Sword
Al-Kāfi|Volume 7|Book 2|Chapter 3
1- مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَحْيَى عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ وَعَلِيُّ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ عَنْ أَبِيهِ جَمِيعاً عَنِ ابْنِ أَبِي عُمَيْرٍ عَنْ هِشَامِ بْنِ سَالِمٍ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللهِ (عَلَيْهِ السَّلام) قَالَ لا يَسْتَقِيمُ النَّاسُ عَلَى الْفَرَائِضِ وَالطَّلاقِ إِلا بِالسَّيْفِ.
1. Muhammad ibn Yahya has narrated from Ahmad ibn Muhammad and Ali ibn Ibrahim has narrated from his father from all from Ibn Abi ‘Umayr from Hisham ibn Salim who has narrated the following: “Abu ‘Abd Allah عليه السلام, has said, ‘People do not behave properly in matters of obligations and divorce without the sword (enforcing authority).’”
- Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (23/119)
- Ṣaḥīḥ al-Kāfī, vol. 3, p. 262