The Al-Kulayni said...

The Al-Kulayni said, ‘From his father, from the one who narrated to him, from Al-Husayn Bin Al-Mukhtar, ‘Abu Abdullah -asws having said: ‘Amir-al-Momineen -asws said in a speech of his -asws : Place the affairs of your brother upon the best (interpretation) until there comes to you (evidence) which overturns it, and do not act upon conjecture of a word which has come out from your brother except that you find for it in goodness’.

[13] عن عبد الله بن جندب، قال: كتب إلي أبو الحسن الرضا (عليه السلام) «ذكرت- رحمك الله- هؤلاء القوم الذين وصفت أنهم كانوا بالأمس لكم إخوانا، و الذي صاروا إليه من الخلاف لكم، و العداوة لكم و البراءة منكم، و الذي تأفكوا به من حياة أبي (صلوات الله عليه و رحمته)».

From Abdullah Bin Jundab who said, ‘Abu Al-Hassan Al-Reza -asws wrote to me: ‘ You mentioned, may Allah -azwj have Mercy on you – these people, those whom you described that they used to be your brothers yesterday, and those who come to be adversaries to you, and have the enmity for you all and the disavowing from you , and those who spread lies from the life-time of my ‑asws father -asws ’.

و ذكر في آخر الكتاب: «أن هؤلاء القوم سنح لهم شيطان اغترهم بالشبهة، و لبس عليهم أمر دينهم، و ذلك لما ظهرت فريتهم، و اتفقت كلمتهم، و كذبوا على عالمهم، و أرادوا الهدى من تلقاء أنفسهم، فقالوا: لم و من و كيف؟ And he -asws mentioned at the end of the letter: ‘They are the people to whom the Satan deluded with the uncertainties and clothed them with the matters of their Religion, and that is due to what their forgeries were manifested and they formed a consensus on their speech, and they lied upon their scholars, and they intended the guidance from their own selves, so they said, ‘Why, and who, and how?’ فأتاهم الهلاك من مأمن احتياطهم، و ذلك بما كسبت أيديهم، وَ ما رَبُّكَ بِظَلَّامٍ لِلْعَبِيدِ و لم يكن ذلك لهم و لا عليهم، بل كان الفرض عليهم و الواجب لهم من ذلك الوقوف عند التحير، و رد ما جهلوه من ذلك إلى عالمه و مستنبطه، لأن الله يقول في محكم كتابه: وَ لَوْ رَدُّوهُ إِلَى الرَّسُولِ وَ إِلى أُولِي الْأَمْرِ مِنْهُمْ لَعَلِمَهُ الَّذِينَ يَسْتَنْبِطُونَهُ مِنْهُمْ يعني آل محمد، و هم الذين يستنبطون من القرآن، و يعرفون الحلال و الحرام، و هم الحجة لله على خلقه».

So the destruction came to them from the safety of their precautions, and that was due to what their hands had earned, and your Lord is not in the least unjust to the servants [41:47] .

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