Rasool Allah -saww and his -saww successors...
Rasool Allah -saww and his -saww successors, the twelve Imams -asws , after him -asws emphasised the importance of knowledge and discouraged mystical practices of the Sufis , e.g., يج، الخرائج و الجرائح رُوِيَ عَنْ رُمَيْلَةَ أَنَّ عَلِيّاً ع مَرَّ بِرَجُلٍ يَخْبِطُ هُوَ هُوَ فَقَالَ يَا شَابُّ لَوْ قَرَأْتَ الْقُرْآنَ لَكَانَ خَيْراً لَكَ فَقَالَ إِنِّي لَا أُحْسِنُهُ وَ لَوَدِدْتُ أَنْ أُحْسِنَ مِنْهُ شَيْئاً فَقَالَ ادْنُ مِنِّي فَدَنَا مِنْهُ فَتَكَلَّمَ فِي أُذُنِهِ بِشَيْءٍ خَفِيٍّ فَصَوَّرَ اللَّهُ الْقُرْآنَ كُلَّهُ فِي قَلْبِهِ فَحَفِظَ كُلَّهُ (The book) ‘Al Kharaij Wa Al Jaraih’ – It is reported from Rumeylah, ‘(Amir Al-Momineen) Ali -asws passed by a man stomping the ground (saying) ‘هُوَ هُوَ’ (He – azwj !
He – azwj !) (acting on a Sufi ritual). Imam -asws said: ‘O youth! If you were to read the Quran, it would be better for you’. He said, ‘I am not good at it, and I would love to be good at something from it’. He -asws said: ‘Come near me -asws ’. He went near him -asws . He -asws spoke in his ears with something in a low voice, and Allah -azwj Transferred the Quran, all of it into his heart. He memorised all of it’.
[3] The Mystical effects, i.e., Fainting, are from Iblis -la : الأمالي للصدوق ابْنُ إِدْرِيسَ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنِ الْأَشْعَرِيِّ عَنِ ابْنِ عَبْدِ الْجَبَّارِ عَنْ أَبِي عِمْرَانَ الْأَرْمَنِيِّ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ الْحَكَمِ عَنْ جَابِرٍ عَنْ أَبِي جَعْفَرٍ الْبَاقِرِ ع قَالَ: قُلْتُ لَهُ إِنَّ قَوْماً إِذَا ذُكِّرُوا بِشَيْءٍ مِنَ الْقُرْآنِ أَوْ حُدِّثُوا بِهِ صَعِقَ أَحَدُهُمْ حَتَّى يُرَى أَنَّهُ لَوْ قُطِّعَتْ يَدَاهُ وَ رِجْلَاهُ لَمْ يَشْعُرْ بِذَلِكَ (The book) ‘Al Amaali’ of Al Sadouq – Ibn Idrees, from his father, from Al Ashary, from Ibn Abdul Jabbar, from Abu Imran Al Armany, from Abdullah Bin Al Hakam, from Jabir, ‘From Abu Ja’far -asws , he (the narrator) said, ‘I said to him -asws , ‘There is a group, whenever something from the Quran is mentioned to them, or they are narrated to with it, one of them is shocked until he views even if his hands and his leg were to be cut off, he would not be aware of that’.
فَقَالَ سُبْحَانَ اللَّهِ ذَاكَ مِنَ الشَّيْطَانِ مَا بِهَذَا أُمِرُوا إِنَّمَا هُوَ اللِّينُ وَ الرِّقَّةُ وَ الدَّمْعَةُ وَ الْوَجَلُ The Imam -asws said: ‘Glory be to Allah -azwj , that is from the Satan -la ! They have not been Commanded with this. But rather, it is the gentleness, and the kindness, and the tears and the fearfulness (they have been Commanded).
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