و قال عليه السلام في سحرة اليوم الذي ضرب فيه
مَلَكَتْنِي عَيْنِي وَ أَنَا جَالِسٌ فَسَنَحَ لِي رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه واله فَقُلْتُ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ مَا ذَا لَقِيتُ مِنْ أُمَّتِكَ مِنَ الْأَوَدِ وَ اللَّدَدِ فَقَالَ ادْعُ عَلَيْهِمْ فَقُلْتُ أَبْدَلَنِي اللَّهُ بِهِمْ خَيْراً لِي مِنْهُمْ وَ أَبْدَلَهُمْ بِي شَرّاً لَهُمْ مِنِّي
و يعني بالأود الاعوجاج و باللدد الخصام و هذا من أفصح الكلام
A Sermon from Imam Ali (a.s)
Spoken on the morning of the day when Amir al-mu'minin was fatally struck with sword.
I was sitting when sleep overtook me. I saw the Prophet of Allah appear before me, and I said: "O' Prophet of Allah ! what crookedness and enmity I had to face from the people. " The prophet of Allah said: "Invoke (Allah) evil upon them," but I said, "Allah may change them for me with better ones and change me for them with a worse one.
As-Sayyid ar-Radi says: "al-awad" means crookedness and "al-ladad" means enmity, and this is the most eloquent expression.