قَالَ فَمُطْلَقُونَ He said, ‘So they are free?’ قَالَ اللَّهُ أَحْكَمُ أَنْ يُهْمِلَ عَبْدَهُ وَ يَكِلَهُ إِلَى نَفْسِهِ He -asws said: ‘Allah -azwj is Wiser than to Load His -azwj servant and Leave him to himself.
اصْحَبِ السُّلْطَانَ بِالْحَذَرِ وَ الصَّدِيقَ بِالتَّوَاضُعِ وَ الْعَدُوَّ بِالتَّحَرُّزِ وَ الْعَامَّةَ بِالْبِشْرِ الْإِيمَانُ فَوْقَ الْإِسْلَامِ بِدَرَجَةٍ وَ التَّقْوَى فَوْقَ الْإِيمَانِ بِدَرَجَةٍ وَ الْيَقِينُ فَوْقَ التَّقْوَى بِدَرَجَةٍ وَ لَمْ يُقْسَمْ بَيْنَ الْعِبَادِ شَيْءٌ أَقَلُّ مِنَ الْيَقِينِ-. Accompany the ruler with the caution, and the friend with the humbleness, and the enemy with the guarding, and the general public with the smile.
The Eman is above Al-Islam by a level, and the piety is above the Eman by a level, and the certainty is above the piety by a level, and nothing has been Apportioned between the servants lesser than the certainty’’. وَ سُئِلَ عَنِ الْمَشِيَّةِ وَ الْإِرَادَةِ فَقَالَ الْمَشِيَّةُ الِاهْتِمَامُ بِالشَّيْءِ وَ الْإِرَادَةُ إِتْمَامُ ذَلِكَ الشَّيْءِ And he -asws was asked about the Desire and the Intention (of Allah -azwj ).
He -asws said: ‘The Desire is embarking with the thing, and the Intention is completion of that thing.
The death is a scourge of the hopes, and the custom is a treasure for ever, and the righteousness is a gain of the resolute one, and the negligence is a calamity of the one with ability, and the miserliness rips the honour, and the love calls to the hardship, and revering the people and honouring them is doing the act of kindness, and helping the distressed, and realises the hope of the hoping one, and ratification is imagination of the hoping one, and having many friends during the lifetime and (increases) mourners after the death’’.
[3] Introduction: Additional Ahadith are presented in this section in order to enhanced our understanding of what lies between the ‘freedom and compulsion’.