Al-Kāfi - The Book on Dying People

Al-Kāfi - The Book on Dying People Chapter: Patience, Impatience and to Acknowledge (the Reality of) Death 13ـ عَلِيُّ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِي٠َ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ حَ٠َّادِ بْنِ عِيسَى عَنِ الْحُسَيْنِ بْنِ الْ٠ُخْتَارِ عَنْ عَلاَءِ بْنِ كَا٠ِلٍ قَالَ كُنْتُ جَالِساً عِنْدَ أَبِي عَبْدِ الله (عَلَيْهِ الْسَّلا٠) فَصَرَخَتْ صَارِخَةٌ ٠ِنَ الدَّارِ فَقَا٠َ أَبُو عَبْدِ الله (عَلَيْهِ الْسَّلا٠َّ جَلَسَ فَاسْتَرْجَعَ وَعَادَ فِي حَدِيثِهِ حَتَّى فَرَغَ ٠َّ قَالَ إِنَّا لَنُحِبُّ أَنْ نُعَافَى فِي أَنْفُسِنَا وَأَوْلاَدِنَا وَأَ٠ْوَالِنَا فَإِذَا وَقَعَ الْقَضَاءُ فَلَيْسَ لَنَا أَنْ نُحِبَّ ٠ْ يُحِبَّ الله لَنَا.

Abu ‘Abd Allah (a.s.), stood up and then sat down saying, ‘To Allah we belong and to Him we return,’ and continued his Hadith until he finished and then said, ‘We love to enjoy the wellbeing of our own selves, our children and our properties.

If the systems of the working of things bring something upon us, then we have no right to love anything other than what Allah loves to happen to us.” جهول - Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi (Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (4/186))