فَقَالَ إِنَّهُ جَاءَنِي السَّاعَةَ مِنْ نَحْوِ أَرْضِكُمْ...
فَقَالَ إِنَّهُ جَاءَنِي السَّاعَةَ مِنْ نَحْوِ أَرْضِكُمْ عَيْنٌ مِنْ عُيُونِي هُنَاكَ فَأَخْبَرَنِي أَنَّ اللَّهَ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ قَدْ نَصَرَ نَبِيَّهُ مُحَمَّداً ( صلى الله عليه وآله ) وَ أَهْلَكَ عَدُوَّهُ وَ أُسِرَ فُلَانٌ وَ فُلَانٌ وَ فُلَانٌ الْتَقَوْا بِوَادٍ يُقَالُ لَهُ بَدْرٌ كَثِيرِ الْأَرَاكِ لَكَأَنِّي أَنْظُرُ إِلَيْهِ حَيْثُ كُنْتُ أَرْعَى لِسَيِّدِي هُنَاكَ وَ هُوَ رَجُلٌ مِنْ بَنِي ضَمْرَةَ He (Al-Najjashy) said, ‘(News) has come to me this moment from around your land, by a spy from the spies over there, informing me that Allah -azwj Mighty and Majestic has Granted victory to His -azwj Prophet -saww Muhammad -saww and Destroyed his -saww enemies, and Made captives of so and so, and so and so, when they met (in battle) in a valley of a lot of bushes of Al-Arak called Badr.
It is as if I am looking at it where I used to be a shepherd for my master over there, and he was a man from the Clan of Zamra’.
فَقَالَ لَهُ جَعْفَرٌ أَيُّهَا الْمَلِكُ فَمَا لِي أَرَاكَ جَالِساً عَلَى التُّرَابِ وَ عَلَيْكَ هَذِهِ الْخُلْقَانُ فَقَالَ لَهُ يَا جَعْفَرُ إِنَّا نَجِدُ فِيمَا أَنْزَلَ اللَّهُ عَلَى عِيسَى ( عليه السلام ) أَنَّ مِنْ حَقِّ اللَّهِ عَلَى عِبَادِهِ أَنْ يُحْدِثُوا لَهُ تَوَاضُعاً عِنْدَ مَا يُحْدِثُ لَهُمْ مِنْ نِعْمَةٍ فَلَمَّا أَحْدَثَ اللَّهُ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ لِي نِعْمَةً بِمُحَمَّدٍ ( صلى الله عليه وآله ) أَحْدَثْتُ لِلَّهِ هَذَا التَّوَاضُعَ Ja’far -as Bin Abu Talib -as said to him: ‘O king!
What is the matter that I see you to be seated upon the dust, and upon you are these two threadbare (clothes)?’ He (Al-Najjashy) said to him -as , ‘O Ja’far -as ! We found among what Allah -azwj Revealed unto Isa -as that: ‘It is from a Right of Allah -azwj upon His -azwj servants that he should be humble to Him -azwj during whatever new Bounties He -azwj Gives to them.
Therefore, when Allah -azwj Mighty and Majestic Granted a new Bounty to me being (news of victory) of Muhammad -saww , I put on these (threadbare clothes) for the humbleness’.
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