[6] وَ بِإِسْنَادِهِ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ع أَنَّهُ...
[6] وَ بِإِسْنَادِهِ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ع أَنَّهُ قَالَ لَهُ زَيْدٌ الشَّحَّامُ إِنِّي سَمِعْتُكَ تَقُولُ نِيَّةُ الْمُؤْمِنِ خَيْرٌ مِنْ عَمَلِهِ فَكَيْفَ تَكُونُ النِّيَّةُ خَيْراً مِنَ الْعَمَلِ And by his chain, ‘From Abu Abdullah -asws , Zayd Al-Shaham had said to him -asws , ‘I heard you -asws saying: ‘Intention of the Momin is better than his deed’, so how can the intention be better than the deed?’ قَالَ لِأَنَّ الْعَمَلَ إِنَّمَا كَانَ رِئَاءَ الْمَخْلُوقِينَ وَ النِّيَّةَ خَالِصَةٌ لِرَبِّ الْعَالَمِينَ فَيُعْطِي عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ عَلَى النِّيَّةِ مَا لَا يُعْطِي عَلَى الْعَمَلِ He -asws said: ‘Because the deed rather (sometimes) was to show off to the people while the intention is purely for Lord -azwj of the worlds.
So, the Mighty and Majestic Gives upon the intention what He -azwj does not Give upon the deed’’. قَالَ أَبُو عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ع إِنَّ الْعَبْدَ لَيَنْوِي مِنْ نَهَارِهِ أَنْ يُصَلِّيَ بِاللَّيْلِ فَتَغْلِبُهُ عَيْنُهُ فَيَنَامُ فَيُثْبِتُ اللَّهُ لَهُ صَلَاتَهُ وَ يَكْتُبُ نَفَسَهُ تَسْبِيحاً وَ يَجْعَلُ نَوْمَهُ صَدَقَةً. Abu Abdullah -asws said: ‘The servant intend from his day that he will pray Salat at night, but his eyes overcome him, so he sleeps.
Allah -azwj Affirms his Salat for him and Writes his breathing as Glorification, and Makes his sleep to be charity’’. [7] وَرَدَ فِي الْحَدِيثِ مِنْ أَنَّ ابْنَ آدَمَ إِذَا هَمَّ بِالْحَسَنَةِ كُتِبَتْ لَهُ حَسَنَةٌ وَ إِذَا هَمَّ بِالسَّيِّئَةِ لَمْ يُكْتَبْ عَلَيْهِ شَيْءٌ حَتَّى يَعْمَلَ.
And it has been referred in the Hadeeth: ‘The son of Adam -as , when he thinks of the good deed, a good deed is written for him, and when he thinks of the evil deed, nothing is written upon him until he (actually) does it’’.
[8] الكافي عَنْ عَلِيٍّ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنِ الْقَاسِمِ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنِ الْمِنْقَرِيِّ عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ يُونُسَ عَنْ أَبِي هَاشِمٍ قَالَ قَالَ أَبُو عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ع إِنَّمَا خُلِّدَ أَهْلُ النَّارِ فِي النَّارِ لِأَنَّ نِيَّاتِهِمْ كَانَتْ فِي الدُّنْيَا أَنْ لَوْ خُلِّدُوا فِيهَا أَنْ يَعْصُوا اللَّهَ أَبَداً (The book) ‘Al Kafi’ – from Ali, from his father, from Al Qasim Bin Muhammad, from Al Minqary, from Ahmad Bin Yunus, from Abu Hashim who said, ‘Abu Abdullah -asws having said: ‘But rather people of the Fire would be eternally in the Fire because their intentions in the world were that if they had been there eternally in it they would have disobeyed Allah -azwj for ever!
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