Do you not know for which thing (reason) I -azwj have...
Do you not know for which thing (reason) I -azwj have Merited you -saww over rest of the Prophets -as ?’ قَالَ اللَّهُمَّ لَا He -saww said: ‘O Allah -azwj , no!’ قَالَ بِالْيَقِينِ وَ حُسْنِ الْخُلُقِ وَ سَخَاوَةِ النَّفْسِ وَ رَحْمَةِ الْخَلْقِ وَ كَذَلِكَ أَوْتَادُ الْأَرْضِ لَمْ يَكُونُوا أَوْتَاداً إِلَّا بِهَذَا- He -azwj Said: “Due to the conviction, and good manners, and generous self, and merciful morals, and like that are pegs of the earth. They cannot be pegs except with these.
يَا أَحْمَدُ إِنَّ الْعَبْدَ إِذَا أَجَاعَ بَطْنَهُ وَ حَفِظَ لِسَانَهُ عَلَّمْتُهُ الحِكْمَةَ وَ إِنْ كَانَ كَافِراً تَكُونُ حِكْمَتُهُ حُجَّةً عَلَيْهِ وَ وَبَالًا وَ إِنْ كَانَ مُؤْمِناً تَكُونُ حِكْمَتُهُ لَهُ نُوراً وَ بُرْهَاناً وَ شِفَاءً وَ رَحْمَةً فَيَعْلَمُ مَا لَمْ يَكُنْ يَعْلَمُ وَ يُبْصِرُ مَا لَمْ يَكُنْ يُبْصِرُ O Ahmad -saww !
When the servant keeps his belly hungry, and protects his tongue, I -azwj Teach him the wisdom, and if he were to be a Kafir, his wisdom would be an argument upon him and a scourge, and if he were to be a Momin, his wisdom would be a Noor for him and a proof, and a healing, and a mercy. Thus, he would know what cannot be known, and he would have insight of what cannot be sighted.
فَأَوَّلُ مَا أُبَصِّرُهُ عُيُوبُ نَفْسِهِ حَتَّى يَشْتَغِلَ عَنْ عُيُوبِ غَيْرِهِ وَ أُبَصِّرُهُ دَقَائِقَ الْعِلْمِ حَتَّى لَا يَدْخُلَ عَلَيْهِ الشَّيْطَانُ- The first of what I -azwj would Make him to be insightful of are faults of his own until he is too pre-occupied from faulting others, and I -azwj will Cause him to have insight intricacies of knowledge until the Satan -la cannot enter to see him.
يَا أَحْمَدُ لَيْسَ شَيْءٌ مِنَ الْعِبَادَةِ أَحَبَّ إِلَيَّ مِنَ الصَّمْتِ وَ الصَّوْمِ فَمَنْ صَامَ وَ لَمْ يَحْفَظْ لِسَانَهُ كَانَ كَمَنْ قَامَ وَ لَمْ يَقْرَأْ فِي صَلَاتِهِ فَأُعْطِيهِ أَجْرَ الْقِيَامِ وَ لَمْ أُعْطِهِ أَجْرَ الْعَابِدِينَ O Ahmad -saww ! There isn’t anything from the worship more Beloved to Me -azwj than the silence and the fasting. The one who fasts and does not protect his tongue, would be like the one standing (for Salat) and does not recite (Quran) in his Salat.
So I -azwj Give him Rewards of the standing and do not Give him Rewards of the worshippers. يَا أَحْمَدُ هَلْ تَدْرِي مَتَى تَكُونُ الْعَبْدُ عَابِداً O Ahmad -saww !
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