Al-Kāfi - The Book of Belief and Disbelief

Al-Kāfi - The Book of Belief and Disbelief ِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ أَحْ٠َّدِ بْنِ خَالِدٍ عَنْ بَعْضِ أَصْحَابِنَا رَفَعَهُ قَالَ قَالَ أَ٠ِنِينَ (عَلَيهِ السَّلا٠) لأنْسُبَنَّ الإسْلا٠َ نِسْبَةً لا يَنْسُبُهُ أَحَدٌ قَبْلِي وَلا يَنْسُبُهُ أَحَدٌ بَعْدِي إِلا بِ٠ِثْلِ ذَلِكَ إِنَّ الإسْلا٠َ هُوَ التَّسْلِي٠َ هُوَ الْيَقِينُ وَالْيَقِينَ هُوَ التَّصْدِيقُ وَالتَّصْدِيقَ هُوَ الإقْرَارُ وَالإقْرَارَ هُوَ الْعَ٠َلَ هُوَ الأدَاءُ إِنَّ الْ٠ْ يَأْخُذْ دِينَهُ عَنْ رَأْيِهِ وَلَكِنْ أَتَاهُ ٠ِنْ رَبِّهِ فَأَخَذَهُ إِنَّ الْ٠ِنَ يُرَى يَقِينُهُ فِي عَ٠َلِهِ وَالْكَافِرَ يُرَى إِنْكَارُهُ فِي عَ٠َلِهِ فَوَ الَّذِي نَفْسِي بِيَدِهِ ٠ْ فَاعْتَبِرُوا إِنْكَارَ الْكَافِرِينَ وَالْ٠ُنَافِقِينَ بِأَعْ٠1.

A number of our people have narrated from Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Khalid from certain individuals of our people in a marfu’ manner from Amir al- Mu’minin (Ali ibn abu Talib) who has said the following: “I will describe Islam in a way that no one could have done before or would do after me except just as my description: ‘Islam is submission and submission is certainty. Certainty is affirmation (and confirmation). Affirmation is professing. Professing is action.

Action and deeds are completion and remittance. A believer does not take his religion from his own personal opinion. It comes from his Lord and he accepts it. A believer finds his certainty in his deeds. An unbeliever finds his rejection in his deeds. I swear by the One in whose hands is my soul, they did not recognize their goal.

Take a lesson from the case of the filthy deeds of the unbelievers and the hypocrites.”’ رفوع - Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi (Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (7/282))