وَ رُوِيَ مَنْ حَسُنَتْ نِيَّتُهُ زَادَ اللَّهُ فِي رِزْقِهِ And it is reported...

وَ رُوِيَ مَنْ حَسُنَتْ نِيَّتُهُ زَادَ اللَّهُ فِي رِزْقِهِ And it is reported, ‘One whose intention is good, Allah -azwj will Increase in his sustenance’. وَ سَأَلْتُ الْعَالِمَ ع عَنْ قَوْلِ اللَّهِ‏ خُذُوا ما آتَيْناكُمْ بِقُوَّةٍ قُوَّةُ الْأَبْدَانِ أَمْ قُوَّةُ الْقُلُوبِ And I asked the scholar -asws about Words of Allah -azwj : “Grab what We have Given you with strength [2:63] , ‘Is it strength of the bodies or strength of the hearts?’ فَقَالَ جَمِيعاً He -asws said: ‘Both together’.

وَ قَالَ لَا قَوْلَ إِلَّا بِعَمَلٍ وَ لَا عَمَلَ إِلَّا بِنِيَّةٍ وَ لَا نِيَّةَ إِلَّا بِإِصَابَةِ السُّنَّةِ And he -asws said: ‘There is no word except with deed, nor any deed except with intention, nor any intention except by hitting (conducting by) the Sunnah’. وَ نَرْوِي حُسْنُ الْخُلُقِ سَجِيَّةٌ وَ نِيَّةٌ وَ صَاحِبُ النِّيَّةِ أَفْضَلُ And we are reported, ‘Good manners in character, and the owner of the intention is superior’. وَ نَرْوِي مَا ضَعُفَتْ نِيَّةٌ عَنْ نِيَّةٍ.

And we are reporting: ‘And intention is not weakened from an intention’’. [2] – وَ أَرْوِي عَنْهُ‏ نِيَّةُ الْمُؤْمِنِ خَيْرٌ مِنْ عَمَلِهِ فَسَأَلْتُهُ عَنْ مَعْنَى ذَلِكَ فَقَالَ الْعَمَلُ يَدْخُلُهُ الرِّيَاءُ وَ النِّيَّةُ لَا يَدْخُلُهَا الرِّيَاءُ And it is reported from him -asws : ‘Intention of the Momin is better than his deed’. I asked him ‑asws about the meaning of that.

He -asws said: ‘The deed is such, the showing off enters it while the intention is such, the showing off does not enter it’. وَ سَأَلْتُ الْعَالِمَ ع عَنْ تَفْسِيرِ نِيَّةُ الْمُؤْمِنِ خَيْرٌ قَالَ إِنَّهُ رُبَّمَا انْتَهَتْ بِالْإِنْسَانِ حَالُهُ مِنْ مَرَضٍ أَوْ خَوْفٍ فَتُفَارِقُهُ الْأَعْمَالُ وَ مَعَهُ نِيَّتُهُ فَلِذَلِكَ الْوَقْتِ نِيَّةُ الْمُؤْمِنِ خَيْرٌ مِنْ عَمَلِهِ And I asked the scholar -asws about interpretation of ‘The intention of a Momin is better (than his deed)’.

He -asws said: ‘Sometimes a state of with the human being ends up in illness or fear, so the deeds separate from him (do not get performed) and the intention (remains) with him. So, for that time, intention of the Momin is better than his deed’. وَ فِي وَجْهٍ آخَرَ أَنَّهَا لَا يُفَارِقُهُ عَقْلُهُ أَوْ نَفْسُهُ وَ الْأَعْمَالُ قَدْ يُفَارِقُهُ قَبْلَ مُفَارَقَةِ الْعَقْلِ وَ النَّفْسِ.