He -asws said: ‘Are you capable of ending what has already happened (started)?
He -asws said: ‘Are you capable of ending what has already happened (started)?’ He said, ‘No’. Abu Abdullah -asws asked him: ‘When are you capable?’ He said, ‘I don’t know’.
قَالَ فَقَالَ لَهُ أَبُو عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) إِنَّ اللَّهَ خَلَقَ خَلْقاً فَجَعَلَ فِيهِمْ آلَةَ الِاسْتِطَاعَةِ ثُمَّ لَمْ يُفَوِّضْ إِلَيْهِمْ فَهُمْ مُسْتَطِيعُونَ لِلْفِعْلِ وَقْتَ الْفِعْلِ مَعَ الْفِعْلِ إِذَا فَعَلُوا ذَلِكَ الْفِعْلَ فَإِذَا لَمْ يَفْعَلُوهُ فِي مُلْكِهِ لَمْ يَكُونُوا مُسْتَطِيعِينَ أَنْ يَفْعَلُوا فِعْلًا لَمْ يَفْعَلُوهُ لِأَنَّ اللَّهَ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ أَعَزُّ مِنْ أَنْ يُضَادَّهُ فِي مُلْكِهِ أَحَدٌ He (the narrator) said, ‘So Abu Abdullah -asws said to him: ‘Allah -azwj Created creatures, so He -azwj Made a tool to be inside them, the tool of capability .
Then He -azwj did not Delegate it to them, so they are capable of the deed at the time of the deed, along with the deed when they are doing that deed. So, when they are not doing it in His -azwj Kingdom, they would not happen to be capable of doing a deed they did not do, because Allah -azwj Mighty and Majestic is Mightier than that He -azwj should be opposed in His -azwj Kingdom by anyone’.
قَالَ الْبَصْرِيُّ فَالنَّاسُ مَجْبُورُونَ قَالَ لَوْ كَانُوا مَجْبُورِينَ كَانُوا مَعْذُورِينَ قَالَ فَفَوَّضَ إِلَيْهِمْ قَالَ لَا قَالَ فَمَا هُمْ قَالَ عَلِمَ مِنْهُمْ فِعْلًا فَجَعَلَ فِيهِمْ آلَةَ الْفِعْلِ فَإِذَا فَعَلُوهُ كَانُوا مَعَ الْفِعْلِ مُسْتَطِيعِينَ The man of Al-Basra said, ‘So the people are being Compelled’. He -asws said: ‘If they are being Compelled, they would be excused’. He said, ‘So He -azwj Delegates to them?’ He -asws said: ‘No’.
He said, ‘So what are they?’ He -asws said: ‘He -azwj Knew from them the doers, so He -azwj Made a tool of the deed to be in them. So, when they are doing, they would be with the deed, capable’. قَالَ الْبَصْرِيُّ أَشْهَدُ أَنَّهُ الْحَقُّ وَ أَنَّكُمْ أَهْلُ بَيْتِ النُّبُوَّةِ وَ الرِّسَالَةِ The man of Al-Basra said, ‘I testify that it is the Truth, and you -asws (Imams -asws ) are the People -asws of the Household of the Prophet-hood and the Message’.
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