Abul Fadhl Tamim ibn Abdullah ibn Tamim al-Qurashi – may...

Abul Fadhl Tamim ibn Abdullah ibn Tamim al-Qurashi – may Allah be pleased with him – narrated that his father quoted on the authority of Abu Ali Ahmad ibn Ali Al-Ansari, on the authority of Abul Salt Abdul Salam ibn Salih al-Harawi that he had heard: Ali -asws ibn Musa Al-Reza -asws say, “The Honourable the Exalted Allah -azwj Revealed (in a dream) the following to one of His Prophets -as , ‘When you leave the house in the morning, eat the first thing that you encounter, hide the second thing, accept the third thing, do not disappoint the fourth, and escape from the fifth.

At first when he left the house in the morning, he encountered a big black mountain. He said to himself that the Exalted the Magnificent Allah had ordered him to eat it, and wondered how to do it. He then thought that Allah would not order him to do what was beyond his power. So, he moved towards the mountain. The closer he got to the mountain, the smaller it became. When he finally reached it, it had turned into a small bite to eat. He ate it, and it was really delicious.

He continued to go on until he reached a golden pan. He said to himself that Allah had ordered him to hide it. He dug a ditch, threw the golden pan in the ditch, covered it up with dirt, and started to go on his way again. But then he noticed that the pan was visible out of the ground. He said to himself that he had done what Allah had ordered him to and continued to go on. Then he suddenly saw a bird being pursued by a falcon trying to hunt it. The falcon was flying around the bird.

The Prophet remembered that Allah had ordered him to accept this one. He opened his sleeve and the bird entered it. The falcon told the Prophet -as , ‘You have caught the prey that I was after for a few days.’ Then he remembered that Allah had ordered him not to disappoint this one. Then he cut off a piece of the bird’s leg and threw it to the falcon. He continued to go on, and saw a piece of rotten meat.

He remembered that Allah -azwj had ordered him to escape from this one, so he escaped from it. When he had returned home he went to sleep, and had a dream. He was told, ‘You performed your mission, and did whatever you were instructed to do. Do you know what the philosophy behind all these issues is?’ He said, ‘No.’ He was told, ‘That mountain was anger. Whenever one gets angry, he does not see himself and does not realize his situation.