(The book) ‘Al Tamhees’ – from Saeed Bin Al-Hassan who said...
(The book) ‘Al Tamhees’ – from Saeed Bin Al-Hassan who said, ‘Abu Ja’far -asws said: ‘I -asws don’t care I -asws become poor, or sick, or rich, because Allah -azwj Said: “I -azwj will not Do anything with the Momin except what is good for him!”’ [25] – وَ عَنْهُ ع قَالَ: لَمْ يَكُنْ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص يَقُولُ لِشَيْءٍ قَدْ مَضَى لَوْ كَانَ غَيْرُهُ. And from him -asws having said: ‘Rasool-Allah -saww did not say for anything having passed: ‘If only it had been something else’’.
[26] قُلْتُ فَبِأَيِّ شَيْءٍ عُلِمَ الْمُؤْمِنُ أَنَّهُ مُؤْمِنٌ I said, ‘By which thing does the Momin know that he is a Momin?’ قَالَ بِالتَّسْلِيمِ لِلَّهِ وَ الرِّضَا فِيمَا وَرَدَ عَلَيْهِ مِنْ وَرَاءِ سُخْطٍ. He -asws said: ‘With the submission to Allah -azwj and the satisfaction in whatever arrives to him from beyond discontent’’. [27] – وَ عَنِ الصَّادِقِ ع أَنَّهُ قَالَ: لَوْ يَعْلَمُ الْمُؤْمِنُ مَا لَهُ فِي الْمَصَائِبِ مِنَ الْأَجْرِ لَتَمَنَّى أَنْ يُقَرَّضَ بِالْمَقَارِيضِ.
From Al-Sadiq -asws having said: ‘Had the Momin known what Rewards there are for him in the difficulties, he would wish to be cut by the scissors’’.
[28] Zikr of Allah -azwj would keep the Iblis -la away: وَ عِلَاجُ ذَلِكَ الْفِرَارُ مِنَ النَّاسِ وَ رَفْضُ الدُّنْيَا وَ طَلَاقُ الرَّاحَةِ وَ الِانْقِطَاعُ عَنِ الْعَادَاتِ وَ قَلْعُ عُرُوقِ مَنَابِتِ الشَّهَوَاتِ بِدَوَامِ الذِّكْرِ لِلَّهِ وَ لُزُومُ الطَّاعَةِ لَهُ وَ احْتِمَالُ جَفَاءِ الْخَلْقِ وَ مُلَازَمَةِ الْقُرْبَى وَ شَمَاتَةِ الْعَدُوِّ مِنَ الْأَهْلِ وَ الْقَرَابَةِ And a treatment of that (unholy behaviours) is fleeing from the self, and rejecting the world, and divorcing the comfort, and cutting off from the habits, and uprooting the roots of the cravings of the lustful desires by constant Zikr of Allah -azwj , and necessitating the obedience to Him -azwj , and enduring the abandonment of the people, and necessitating the kinship, and gloating of the enemies from the family and the relatives.
فَإِذَا فَعَلْتَ ذَلِكَ فَقَدْ فَتَحْتَ عَلَيْكَ بَابَ عَطْفِ اللَّهِ وَ حُسْنِ نَظَرِهِ إِلَيْكَ بِالْمَغْفِرَةِ وَ الرَّحْمَةِ وَ خَرَجْتَ مِنْ جُمْلَةِ الْغَافِلِينَ وَ فَكَكْتَ قَلْبَكَ مِنْ أَسْرِ الشَّيْطَانِ When you were to do that, the door of Compassion of Allah -azwj will be opened upon you, and His -azwj Goodly Consideration to you with the Forgiveness and the Mercy, and you will exit from the total of the heedless ones, and your heart will be freed from the captivity of Satan -la .
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