[18] مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ عَنْ سَهْلِ بْنِ...
[18] مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ عَنْ سَهْلِ بْنِ زِيَادٍ وَ عَلِيُّ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ وَ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَحْيَى عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ جَمِيعاً عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ الْحَكَمِ عَنْ صَالِحٍ النِّيلِيِّ قَالَ سَأَلْتُ أَبَا عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) هَلْ لِلْعِبَادِ مِنَ الِاسْتِطَاعَةِ شَيْءٌ قَالَ فَقَالَ لِي إِذَا فَعَلُوا الْفِعْلَ كَانُوا مُسْتَطِيعِينَ بِالِاسْتِطَاعَةِ الَّتِي جَعَلَهَا اللَّهُ فِيهِمْ Muhammad Bin Abu Abdullah, from Sahl Bin Ziyad and Ali Bin Ibrahim, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad and Muhammad Bin Yahya, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad, altogether from Ali Bin Al Hakam, from Salih Al Nayli who said, ‘I asked Abu Abdullah -asws said: ‘Is there any capability for the servants for anything?’ So he -asws said to me: ‘When they are doing the deed, so they are being capable with the capability which Allah -azwj has Made to be in them’.
قَالَ قُلْتُ وَ مَا هِيَ قَالَ الْآلَةُ مِثْلُ الزَّانِي إِذَا زَنَى كَانَ مُسْتَطِيعاً لِلزِّنَا حِينَ زَنَى وَ لَوْ أَنَّهُ تَرَكَ الزِّنَا وَ لَمْ يَزْنِ كَانَ مُسْتَطِيعاً لِتَرْكِهِ إِذَا تَرَكَ He (the narrator) said, ‘I said, ‘And what is it?’ He -asws said: ‘The tool.
For example an adulterer when he commits adultery, he was capable of the adultery when he did commit adultery; and had he neglected the adultery and had not committed adultery, he would have been capable of neglecting it when he did neglect it’.
قَالَ ثُمَّ قَالَ لَيْسَ لَهُ مِنَ الِاسْتِطَاعَةِ قَبْلَ الْفِعْلِ قَلِيلٌ وَ لَا كَثِيرٌ وَ لَكِنْ مَعَ الْفِعْلِ وَ التَّرْكِ كَانَ مُسْتَطِيعاً He (the narrator) said, ‘Then he -asws said: ‘There isn’t for him from the capability before the deed, neither little nor more, but with the deed, and the neglecting, he was capable’.
قُلْتُ فَعَلَى مَا ذَا يُعَذِّبُهُ قَالَ بِالْحُجَّةِ الْبَالِغَةِ وَ الْآلَةِ الَّتِي رَكَّبَ فِيهِمْ إِنَّ اللَّهَ لَمْ يُجْبِرْ أَحَداً عَلَى مَعْصِيَتِهِ وَ لَا أَرَادَ إِرَادَةَ حَتْمٍ الْكُفْرَ مِنْ أَحَدٍ وَ لَكِنْ حِينَ كَفَرَ كَانَ فِي إِرَادَةِ اللَّهِ أَنْ يَكْفُرَ وَ هُمْ فِي إِرَادَةِ اللَّهِ وَ فِي عِلْمِهِ أَنْ لَا يَصِيرُوا إِلَى شَيْءٍ مِنَ الْخَيْرِ I said, ‘So what is that upon which he would be Punished?’ He -asws said: ‘Due to the sensible arguments, and the tool which is placed within them.
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