Do not fault Dawood -as and ask Me -azwj for the well-being!

Do not fault Dawood -as and ask Me -azwj for the well-being!” فَقَامَ حِزْقِيلُ فَأَخَذَ بِيَدِ دَاوُدَ فَرَفَعَهُ إِلَيْهِ فَقَالَ دَاوُدُ يَا حِزْقِيلُ هَلْ هَمَمْتَ بِخَطِيئَةٍ قَطُّ قَالَ لَا قَالَ فَهَلْ دَخَلَكَ الْعُجْبُ مِمَّا أَنْتَ فِيهِ مِنْ عِبَادَةِ اللَّهِ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ قَالَ لَا قَالَ فَهَلْ رَكَنْتَ إِلَى الدُّنْيَا فَأَحْبَبْتَ أَنْ تَأْخُذَ مِنْ شَهْوَتِهَا وَ لَذَّتِهَا قَالَ بَلَى رُبَّمَا عَرَضَ بِقَلْبِي قَالَ فَمَا ذَا تَصْنَعُ إِذَا كَانَ ذَلِكَ‏ [8] قَالَ أَدْخُلُ هَذَا الشِّعْبَ فَأَعْتَبِرُ بِمَا فِيهِ Hizkeel -as stood up and grabbed a hand of Dawood -as and raised him -as to him -as .

Dawood -as said: ‘O Hizkeel -as ! Do you -as think of sinning (mistake) at all?’ He -as said: ‘No’. He -as said: ‘Does the self-conceitedness (self-importance) enter you from what you -as are in from worship of Allah -azwj Mighty and Majestic?’ He -as said: ‘No’. He -as said: ‘Do you -as tend to incline towards the world and love to take from its desires and its pleasures?’ He -as said: ‘Yes, sometimes my heart is exposed’.

He -as said: ‘So what is it that you do when that happens?’ He -as said: ‘I -as enter this cave and learn lessons with what is therein’.

قَالَ فَدَخَلَ دَاوُدُ النَّبِيُّ ع الشِّعْبَ فَإِذَا سَرِيرٌ مِنْ حَدِيدٍ عَلَيْهِ جُمْجُمَةٌ بَالِيَةٌ وَ عِظَامٌ فَانِيَةٌ وَ إِذَا لَوْحٌ مِنْ حَدِيدٍ فِيهِ كِتَابَةٌ فَقَرَأَهَا دَاوُدُ ع فَإِذَا هِيَ أَنَا أَرْوَى سَلَمٍ‏ [9] مَلَكْتُ أَلْفَ سَنَةٍ وَ بَنَيْتُ أَلْفَ مَدِينَةٍ وَ افْتَضَضْتُ أَلْفَ بِكْرٍ فَكَانَ آخِرَ أَمْرِي أَنْ صَارَ التُّرَابُ فِرَاشِي وَ الْحِجَارَةُ وِسَادَتِي وَ الدِّيدَانُ وَ الْحَيَّاتُ جِيرَانِي فَمَنْ رَآنِي فَلَا يَغْتَرَّ بِالدُّنْيَا [10] .

He -asws said: ‘The Prophet -as entered the cave, and there was a bed of iron, upon it was a decayed skull and perished bones, and there was an iron table wherein was a letter. He -as read it, and there it was: ‘I am Arwy Salam. I ruled for a thousand years, and built a thousand cities, and married a thousand virgins. The last of my matters is that the dust became my bed, and the stones my pillow, and the insects and the snakes my neighbours.

So, the one who sees me, he should not be deceived by the world’’. [11] Love of the world and the greed upon it عَلِيُّ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنِ ابْنِ أَبِي عُمَيْرٍ عَنْ دُرُسْتَ بْنِ أَبِي مَنْصُورٍ عَنْ رَجُلٍ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) وَ هِشَامٍ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) قَالَ رَأْسُ كُلِّ خَطِيئَةٍ حُبُّ الدُّنْيَا .

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