\n Imam Abu Abdullah -asws quoted on the authority of Rasool...

\n Imam Abu Abdullah -asws quoted on the authority of Rasool Allah -saww that Allah -azwj the Almighty said: “Some of My -azwj believers are such that their religious affairs will not improve unless they are affluent and healthy, so I test them by giving them wealth and health. But some other believers are such that their religious affairs will not improve unless they are ill and poor, so I test them by giving them disease and poverty.

I am better aware of what will improve the religious affairs of my believing servants. Some of My -azwj believing servants are those who strive hard to worship Me -azwj . They get up from their warm beds and spend the night in worship, and suffer hardships for Me -azwj . Because I -azwj love them, I -azwj make them fall asleep one or two nights to safeguard their health. They fall asleep until the morning, and then blame themselves.

But if I -azwj had left them to themselves to worship Me -azwj as much as they please, they might get conceited. This conceit would lead them to mischief in their deeds and this would cause their ruin. Because of their conceit and overestimation of their deeds, they would consider themselves to be superior to others, and think that their worshipping had exceeded the degree of insufficiency.

Thus they would get distant from Me -azwj thinking that they are close to Me -azwj .” [20] \n [1] Mishkat Al-Anwaar, H. 1934 \n [2] Mishkat Al-Anwaar, H. 140 \n [3] Mishkat Al-Anwaar, H. 626 \n [4] Mishkat Al-Anwaar, H. 603 \n [5] Mishkat Al-Anwaar, H. 604 \n [6] Mishkat Al-Anwaar, H. 605 \n [7] Mishkat Al-Anwaar, H. 606 \n [8] Mishkat Al-Anwaar, H. 607 \n [9] Mishkat Al-Anwaar, H. 616 \n [10] Mishkat Al-Anwaar, H. 701 \n [11] Al-Kafi, vol. 8, H. 14531 \n [12] Mishkat Al-Anwaar, H.

1002 \n [13] Mishkat Al-Anwaar, H. 1339 \n [14] Mishkat Al-Anwaar, H. 1423 \n [15] Mishkat Al-Anwaar, H. 1471 \n [16] Mishkat Al-Anwaar, H. 1552 \n [17] Mishkat Al-Anwaar, H. 1567 \n [18] Mishkat Al-Anwaar, H. 1568 \n [19] Mishkat Al-Anwaar, H. 1945 \n [20] Mishkat Al-Anwaar, H. 1817 \n ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" .