Thus, whatever matches, they recognise and incline (towards...

Thus, whatever matches, they recognise and incline (towards it), and whatever differs from it, they disregard; and if a Momin would go to a Masjid wherein are a lot of people, there not being among them except for one Momin , his soul would incline towards that Momin until he (goes and) sits beside him’ .

[1] عن جابر عن أبي جعفر عليه السلام، قال: تنفست بين يديه، ثم قلت: يا ابن رسول الله هم يصيبني من غير مصيبة تصيبني، أو أمر ينزل بي، حتى تعرف ذلك أهلي في وجهي، ويعرفه صديقي، فقال: نعم، يا جابر، قلت: ما ذلك يا ابن رسول الله؟ قال: وما تصنع به؟ قلت: احب أن أعلمه، From Jabir, (It has been narrated) from Abu Ja’far -asws , said, ‘I sighed in front of him -asws , then I said, ‘O son -asws of Rasool-Allah -saww !

Worries hit me from without there being a calamity hitting me, or a matter descending with me, to the extent my family recognise that in my face, and my friends recognise it’. So he -asws said: ‘Yes, O Jabir’. I said, ‘And what is that, O son -asws of Rasool-Allah -saww ?’ He -asws said: ‘And what will you do with (knowing) it?’ I said, ‘I would love to know it’.

فقال: يا جابر إن الله عزوجل خلق المؤمنين من طين الجنان، وأجرى بهم من ريح الجنة روحه، فكذلك المؤمن أخو المؤمن لابيه وامه، فإذا أصاب روحا من تلك الارواح في بلدة من البلدان شئ حزنت (حزبت – خ) هذه الارواح لانها منها. So he -asws said: ‘O Jabir! Allah -azwj Mighty and Majestic Created the Momin een from the clay of the Gardens (of Paradise), and Flowed in them from the breezes of the Paradise, His -azwj Spirit. So, like that, the Momin is a brother of the Momin , of his father and his mother.

So when a spirit from those spirits is hit by something (of a difficulty) in a city from the cities, these spirits grieve, because it is from (part of) these’.