Do you -saww know when the servant becomes a worshipper?
Do you -saww know when the servant becomes a worshipper?’ قَالَ لَا يَا رَبِّ He -saww said: ‘No, O Lord -azwj !’ قَالَ إِذَا اجْتَمَعَ فِيهِ سَبْعُ خِصَالٍ وَرَعٌ يَحْجُزُهُ عَنِ الْمَحَارِمِ وَ صَمْتٌ يَكُفُّهُ عَمَّا لَا يَعْنِيهِ وَ خَوْفٌ يَزْدَادُ كُلَّ يَوْمٍ مِنْ بُكَائِهِ وَ حَيَاءٌ يَسْتَحْيِي مِنِّي فِي الْخَلَاءِ وَ أَكْلُ مَا لَا بُدَّ مِنْهُ وَ يُبْغِضُ الدُّنْيَا لِبُغْضِي لَهَا وَ يُحِبُّ الْأَخْيَارَ لِحُبِّي إِيَّاهُمْ He -azwj Said: “When seven characteristics are gathered in him – devoutness cutting him off from the Prohibitions, and silence restraining him from what does not concern him, and fear increasing his crying every day , and modesty embarrassing him from Me -azwj during the isolation, and he eats what there is no escape from, and he hates the world due to My -azwj Hatred for it , and he loves the good people due to My -azwj Love for them ’ [8] (An extract) Two Ahadith are presented below, on what one should desire from the world, with what purpose and when one attains it, then how to spend it: Desiring the World for the sake of Hereafter: عَلِيُّ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنِ ابْنِ أَبِي عُمَيْرٍ عَنْ هِشَامِ بْنِ سَالِمٍ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ أَبِي يَعْفُورٍ قَالَ قَالَ رَجُلٌ لِأَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) وَ اللَّهِ إِنَّا لَنَطْلُبُ الدُّنْيَا وَ نُحِبُّ أَنْ نُؤْتَاهَا فَقَالَ تُحِبُّ أَنْ تَصْنَعَ بِهَا مَا ذَا قَالَ أَعُودُ بِهَا عَلَى نَفْسِي وَ عِيَالِي وَ أَصِلُ بِهَا وَ أَتَصَدَّقُ بِهَا وَ أَحُجُّ وَ أَعْتَمِرُ فَقَالَ ( عليه السلام ) لَيْسَ هَذَا طَلَبَ الدُّنْيَا هَذَا طَلَبُ الْآخِرَةِ Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father, from Ibn Abu Umeyr, from Hisham Bin Salim, from Abdullah Bin Abu Yafour who said, A man said to Abu Abdullah – asws , ‘By Allah – azwj !
We tend to seek the world and we love to achieve it’. So, he – asws said: ‘What is that which you love to do with it (the world)?’ He said, ‘Improve by it upon myself, and upon my family, and maintain relationships with it, and give in charity with it, and perform Hajj and Umrah’. So, he – asws said: ‘This is not seeking the world. This is seeking the Hereafter.
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