These believe in the idea of the permanent character of the...

These believe in the idea of the permanent character of the world while the others do not believe in its lack of permanence...” [^1] It is also narrated from Imam Baqir (as) who said that it is written in Imam Sajjad’s (as), book concerning the friends of Allah that they are those who accomplish their religious obligations, and act according to the practice of Allah’s Messenger (S).

They are those who abstain from all that is forbidden, and have let the transient world go by, while they are only interested in what is dear to Allah. They make a living in accordance with the laws which consider these ways of earning a livelihood lawful. They abhor arrogance, shun…