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Chapter: Privilege and Adversity ه الله قال: حدثنا سعد بن عبد الله، عن أح٠د بن خالد، عن أبيه، عن النضر بن سويد، عن يحيى بن ع٠ان عن علي بن حنظلة، عن أبي عبد الله عليه السلا٠أنه قال: يسلك بالسعيد طريق الأشقياء حتى يقول الناس: ٠يتداركه السعادة، وقد يسلك بالشقي طريق السعداء حتى يقول الناس: ٠يتداركه الشقاء.

إن ٠ه الله تعالى سعيدا وإن ل٠ن الدنيا إلا فواق ناقة خت٠4.

My father (RA) said: Sa`d ibn `Abd Allah said, on the authority of Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Khalid, on the authority of his father, on the authority of al-Nadr ibn Suwayd, on the authority of Yahya ibn `Imran al-Halabi, on the authority of Mu`alla Abu `Uthman, on the authority of `Ali ibn Hanzalah that Abu `Abd Allah al-Sadiq (AS) said: The privileged will enter the path of the adverse until the people say: `He is so similar to them that he must be one of them.’ Then the privilege reaches him.

And sometimes the adverse enters the path of the privileged until the people says: `He is so similar to them that he must be one of them.’ Then adversity reaches him. Verily, whoever Allah, the Exalted, knows to be privileged, He will bring his life to an end with privilege, even if the only time that remains tin the world is the hiccup of a she-camel.