فَقَالَ قُلْتُ يَا أَمِيرَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ ذَلِكَ مِنْ فَضْلِ...
فَقَالَ قُلْتُ يَا أَمِيرَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ ذَلِكَ مِنْ فَضْلِ اللَّهِ عَلَيَّ وَ فَضْلِ أَمِيرِ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ وَ مَا فَوْقِي فِي النُّصْحِ غَايَةٌ He (Rabie) said, ‘I said, ‘O commander of the faithful! That is from the Grace of Allah -azwj upon me, and grace of commander of the faithful, and there is no peak above me in the advice’.
قَالَ كَذَلِكَ أَنْتَ سِرِ السَّاعَةَ إِلَى جَعْفَرِ بْنِ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ فَاطِمَةَ فَأْتِنِي عَلَى الْحَالِ الَّذِي تَجِدُهُ عَلَيْهِ- لَا تُغَيِّرْ شَيْئاً مِمَّا هُوَ عَلَيْهِ He said, ‘You are like that. Travel right now to Ja’far -asws Bin Muhammad -asws son -asws of (Syeda) Fatima -asws , and bring him upon the state which you find him -asws to be upon, not changing anything from what he -asws is upon’.
فَقُلْتُ إِنَّا لِلَّهِ وَ إِنَّا إِلَيْهِ راجِعُونَ هَذَا وَ اللَّهِ هُوَ الْعَطَبُ إِنْ أَتَيْتُ بِهِ عَلَى مَا أَرَاهُ مِنْ غَضَبِهِ قَتَلَهُ وَ ذَهَبَتِ الْآخِرَةُ وَ إِنْ لَمْ آتِ بِهِ وَ أَدْهَنْتُ فِي أَمْرِهِ قَتَلَنِي وَ قَتَلَ نَسْلِي وَ أَخَذَ أَمْوَالِي فَخُيِّرْتُ بَيْنَ الدُّنْيَا وَ الْآخِرَةِ فَمَالَتْ نَفْسِي إِلَى الدُّنْيَا I said, ‘We are for Allah -azwj and are returning to Him -azwj !
By Allah -azwj , it would be the Punishment, if I were to come with him -asws upon what I can see him of his anger, he will kill him -asws and the Hereafter would be gone! And if I don’t come with him -asws and do not carry out his order, he would kill me and kill my offspring and seize my wealth’. So I had a choice between the world and the Hereafter, and I inclined myself to the world’.
قَالَ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الرَّبِيعِ فَدَعَانِي أَبِي وَ كُنْتُ أَفَظَّ وُلْدِهِ وَ أَغْلَظَهُمْ قَلْباً فَقَالَ لِي امْضِ إِلَى جَعْفَرِ بْنِ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عَلِيٍّ فَتَسَلَّقْ عَلَى حَائِطِهِ وَ لَا تَسْتَفْتِحْ عَلَيْهِ بَاباً فَيُغَيِّرَ بَعْضَ مَا هُوَ عَلَيْهِ وَ لَكِنِ انْزِلْ عَلَيْهِ نُزُولًا فَأْتِ بِهِ عَلَى الْحَالِ الَّتِي هُوَ فِيهَا Muhammad Bin Al-Rabie said, ‘My father called me, and I was rudest of his children and their hardest of heart.
He said to me, ‘Go to Ja’far -asws Bin Muhammad -asws Bin Ali -asws , climb upon his -asws wall, and do not open a door to him -asws for he -asws would change what he -asws is upon, but descend upon him -asws with a descent and come with him -asws being upon a state which he -asws is in’.
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