when someone said to him, 'Verily you are greedy for the caliphate', he Leadership () replied, 'Rather, you are, by Allah, greedier and more remote, while I am more suited as well as more qualified for it. I have only demanded it as a right that is mine, while you are intervening between me and it, and you are keeping me away from it ... 'O Allah, I appeal to you for assistance against the Quraysh and all those who have aided them, for verily they have denied me the rights of kinship, lowered my high position, and have grouped together to challenge what is rightfully mine.'