Our adversity overcame (compelled) us and we were an erroneous people [23...
Our adversity overcame (compelled) us and we were an erroneous people [23:106] ; and Iblees -la would say He said: Lord! With what You Sent me astray [15:39]? ’. فَقُلْتُ وَ اللَّهِ مَا أَقُولُ بِقَوْلِهِمْ وَ لَكِنِّي أَقُولُ لَا يَكُونُ إِلَّا بِمَا شَاءَ اللَّهُ وَ أَرَادَ وَ قَدَّرَ وَ قَضَى فَقَالَ يَا يُونُسُ لَيْسَ هَكَذَا لَا يَكُونُ إِلَّا مَا شَاءَ اللَّهُ وَ أَرَادَ وَ قَدَّرَ وَ قَضَى So I said, ‘By Allah -azwj !
I am not speaking by their speech, but I am saying, nothing can happen to be except with what Allah -azwj so Desires, and Intends, and Determines, and Ordains ’. So Imam -asws said: ‘O Yunus! It is not like this. Nothing can happen to be except what Allah -azwj so Desires, and Intends, and Determines, and Ordains.
يَا يُونُسُ تَعْلَمُ مَا الْمَشِيئَةُ قُلْتُ لَا قَالَ هِيَ الذِّكْرُ الْأَوَّلُ فَتَعْلَمُ مَا الْإِرَادَةُ قُلْتُ لَا قَالَ هِيَ الْعَزِيمَةُ عَلَى مَا يَشَاءُ فَتَعْلَمُ مَا الْقَدَرُ قُلْتُ لَا قَالَ هِيَ الْهَنْدَسَةُ وَ وَضْعُ الْحُدُودِ مِنَ الْبَقَاءِ وَ الْفَنَاءِ O Yunus! Do you know what is the Desire?’ I said, ‘No’. He -asws said: ‘It is the first Remembrance ( الذِّكْر ). So do you know what is the Intention?’ I said, ‘No’.
He -asws said: ‘It is the Determination upon what He -azwj so Desires. So do you know what is the Determination?’ I said, ‘No’. Imam -asws said: ‘ It is the Engineering and the Placement of the limitations for the remaining and the perishing ’. قَالَ ثُمَّ قَالَ وَ الْقَضَاءُ هُوَ الْإِبْرَامُ وَ إِقَامَةُ الْعَيْنِ He (the narrator) said, ‘Then he -asws said: ‘ And the Ordainment, it is the accomplishment of the eyes (physical reality) ’.
قَالَ فَاسْتَأْذَنْتُهُ أَنْ أُقَبِّلَ رَأْسَهُ وَ قُلْتُ فَتَحْتَ لِي شَيْئاً كُنْتُ عَنْهُ فِي غَفْلَةٍ . He (the narrator) said, ‘So I sought his -asws permission to kiss his -asws head, and I said, ‘You -asws opened something for me which I was oblivious of’.
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