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ثم قال: «إن المؤمن أعز من الجبل، أن الجبل يستقل منه بالمعاول، و المؤمن لا يستقل من دينه شيء Muhammad Bin Yaqoub, from Muhammad Bin Al- Husayn, from Ibrahim Bin Is’haq Al-Ahmar, from Abdullah Bin Hamaad Al-Ansary, from Abdullah Bin Sinan, from Abu Al-Hassan Al-Ahmasy, ‘Abu Abdullah -asws having said: ‘Allah -azwj Mighty and Majestic Authorised to the Momin, All of his affairs, but did not Authorise for him to be humiliated’. Then he -asws said: ‘Surely, the Momin is mightier than the mountain.
One can take pieces of the mountain out from it with a pick axe, but (as for) the Momin, you cannot take anything out from his Religion’.
Have you not heard the Words of Allah -azwj Mighty and Majestic: And for Allah is the Honour, and for His Rasool, and for the Momineen [63:8] ? So it is befitting for the Momin that he should become honourable, and does not become humiliated. Allah -azwj has Honoured him with the faith and Al-Islam’. و عنه: عن محمد بن يحيى، عن أحمد بن محمد بن عيسى، عن الحسن بن محبوب، عن داود الرقي، قال: سمعت أبا عبد الله (عليه السلام) يقول: «لا ينبغي للمؤمن أن يذل نفسه».
قيل له: و كيف يذل نفسه؟ قال: «يتعرض لما لا يطيق And from him, from Muhammad Bin Yahya, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad Bin Isa, from Al- Hassan Bin Mahboub, from Dawood Al- Raqy who said: ‘I heard Abu Abdullah -asws saying: ‘It is not befitting for the Momin that he should humiliate himself’.