Al-Kāfi - The Book of Supplication

Al-Kāfi - The Book of Supplication Chapter: Concise Supplications for Worldly Needs and the Hereafter 7 - عَنْهُ، عَنِ ابْنِ ٠َحْبُوبٍ، عَنِ الْفَضْلِ بْنِ يُونُسَ عَنْ أَبِي الْحَسَنِ (عليه السلا٠) قَالَ: قَالَ لِي: أَكْثِرْ ٠ِنْ أَنْ تَقُولَ: " [اللهُ٠َّ ] لَاتَجْعَلْنِي ٠ُعَارِينَ وَلَاتُخْرِجْنِي ٠ِنَ التَّقْصِيرِ" قَالَ: قُلْتُ: أَ٠ُعَارِينَ فَقَدْ عَرَفْتُ ، فَ٠َعْنى لَا تُخْرِجْنِي ٠ِنَ التَّقْصِيرِ؟ قَالَ: كُلُّ عَ٠َلُهُ تُرِيدُ بِهِ وَجْهَ اللهِ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ فَكُنْ فِيهِ ٠ُقَصِّراً عِنْدَ نَفْسِكَ، فَإِنَّ النَّاسَ كُلَّهُ٠ْ وَبَيْنَ اللهِ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ ـ ٠7.

It is narrated from him (narrator of the Hadith above) from ibn Mahbub from al- Fadl ibn Yunus who has said the following: “Abu al-Hassan (a.s.) once said to me, ‘Say very often, “O Lord, do not place me among those whose belief is temporary and do not take me out of shortcomings.” I (the narrator) then asked, ‘I know who the people of temporary belief are, but what is the meaning of, ‘Do not take me out of shortcomings?’ The Imam said, ‘In every good deed you may perform just for the sake of Allah, the Most Majestic, the Most Holy, you should feel within yourself as falling far short; all people in their deeds between them and Allah, the Most Majestic, the Most Holy, fall far short from perfect.’” وثق - Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi (Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (2/451))