We entered to see him -asws ...
We entered to see him -asws , and he -asws was in a room, there wasn’t anything in it except a straw mat. He -asws emerged and upon him -asws was a coarse shirt, and he -asws was unkempt.
فَمَالَ عَلَيْنَا فَقَالَ دَخَلْتُمْ عَلَيَّ أَمْسِ فِي الْبَيْتِ الَّذِي رَأَيْتُمْ وَ هُوَ بَيْتُ المَرْأَةِ وَ لَيْسَ هُوَ بَيْتِي وَ كَانَ أَمْسِ يَوْمَهَا فَتَزَيَّنْتُ وَ كَانَ عَلَيَّ أَنْ أَتَزَيَّنَ لَهَا كَمَا تَزَيَّنَتْ لِي وَ هَذَا بَيْتِي فَلَا يَعْرِضْ فِي قَلْبِكَ يَا أَخَا الْبَصْرَةِ He -asws leaned towards us and said: ‘You had entered to see me -asws yesterday in the room which you saw, and it was the wife’s room, and it isn’t my -asws room.
Yesterday it was her day, so I -asws adorned, and it was upon me -asws that I -asws adorned for her like what she adorns for me -asws , and this is my -asws room, therefore do not have any objection in your heart, O brother of Al-Basra!’ فَقَالَ جُعِلْتُ فِدَاكَ قَدْ كَانَ عَرَضَ فَأَمَّا الْآنَ فَقَدْ أَذْهَبَ اللَّهُ بِهِ. He said, ‘May I be sacrificed for you -asws ! There had been an objection. As for now, Allah -azwj has Done away with it’’.
[1] مِنْ كِتَابِ الْمَحَاسِنِ عَنْ إِسْمَاعِيلَ بْنِ يُوشَعَ قَالَ: قُلْتُ لِلرِّضَا ع إِنَّ لِي فَتَاةً قَدِ ارْتَفَعَتْ عِلَّتُهَا From the book ‘Al Mahaasin’ – from Ismail Bin Yoshua who said, ‘I said to Al-Reza -asws : ‘There is a young girl for me, her illness has risen (her menstruation had stopped)’. قَالَ اخْضِبْ رَأْسَهَا بِالْحِنَّاءِ فَإِنَّ الْحَيْضَ سَيَعُودُ إِلَيْهَا He -asws said: ‘Dye her head with the henna, for the menstruation will be returning to her’.
قَالَ فَفَعَلْتُ ذَلِكَ فَعَادَ إِلَيْهَا الْحَيْضُ. He (the narrator) said, ‘I did that, and the menstruation returned to her’’. [2] عَنْ أَبِي الْحَسَنِ ع قَالَ: فِي الْخِضَابِ ثَلَاثُ خِصَالٍ مَهْيَبَةٌ فِي الْحَرْبِ وَ مَحَبَّةٌ إِلَى النِّسَاءِ وَ يَزِيدُ فِي الْبَاهِ. From Abu Al-Hassan -asws having said: ‘In the drying there are three qualities – awe during the war, and the love to the women, and increase in the libido’’.
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