And from Ibn Abbas who said, ‘The Messenger of Allah -saww said: ‘When Adam -as descended, with knowledge and he -as would also learn from the Books and the Messengers -as , Iblees -la said to his Lord -azwj the High, ‘O Lord -azwj , What were the Books and the Messengers -as ?’ He -azwj Said: ‘The Messengers were the Angels and the Prophets -as (from Me -azwj ), and the Books were the Torah, and the Evangel, and the Psalms, and the Furqan’.
He -la said, ‘And what is my book?’ Allah -azwj replied: ‘Your book (writing) are the Tattoos, and your reading is the poetry, and your messengers are the soothsayers, and your food is that on which Allah -azwj ’s Name is not mentioned, and your drink is every intoxicant, and your charity is the lie, and your house is the (public) bath, and your entrapments are the women, and your Muezzin (Caller) is the flute, and your mosque are the market places’.
[4] (4) فِقْهُ الرِّضَا، ع عَنْ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص أَنَّهُ لَعَنَ سَبْعَةً إِلَى أَنْ قَالَ وَ الْمُوشِمَ بِيَدِهِ It is written in Fiqh Al-Reza -asws that Prophet Mohammed -saww has cursed seven (types of people) to the point that he said: ‘And the tattooed on her hand’.’ [5] (5) مع، معاني الأخبار عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ سَعْدٍ عَنِ الْبَرْقِيِّ عَنْ أَبِيهِ رَفَعَهُ قَالَ: نَظَرَ أَبُو عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ع إِلَى رَجُلٍ قَدْ خَرَجَ مِنَ الْحَمَّامِ مَخْضُوبَ الْيَدَيْنِ فَقَالَ لَهُ أَبُو عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ع أَ يَسُرُّكَ أَنْ يَكُونَ اللَّهُ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ خَلَقَ يَدَيْكَ هَكَذَا- (The book) ‘Ma’any Al Akhbar’ – from his father, from Sa’ad, from al Barqy, from his father raising it, said, ‘Abu Abdullah -asws looked at a man who was coming out from the bathhouse dyed of both hands.
Abu Abdullah -asws said to him: ‘Would it have made you happy if Allah -azwj Might and Majestic had Created your hands like this?’ قَالَ لَا وَ اللَّهِ وَ إِنَّمَا فَعَلْتُ ذَلِكَ لِأَنَّهُ بَلَغَنِي عَنْكُمْ أَنَّهُ مَنْ دَخَلَ الْحَمَّامَ فَلْيُرَ عَلَيْهِ أَثَرُهُ يَعْنِي الْحِنَّاءَ He said, ‘No, by Allah -azwj , and rather I have done that because it has reached me from you (Imams -asws ) that the one who enters the bathhouse, let him apply at the end of it, meaning the Henna’.
فَقَالَ لَيْسَ حَيْثُ ذَهَبْتَ مَعْنَى ذَلِكَ إِذَا خَرَجَ أَحَدُكُمْ مِنَ الْحَمَّامِ وَ قَدْ سَلِمَ فَلْيُصَلِّ رَكْعَتَيْنِ شُكْراً. He -asws said: ‘It isn’t where you are going (with it)!