Hadith 19

that the Ordainment of Allah-azwj is inevitable, and a Pre-determination is definite. Had it been like that, it would invalidate the Reward and the Punishment, and the Command and the Prohibition and the Rebuke, and it would drop the meaning of the Promise, and the Appointment. And there would not happen to be a blame upon a sin nor a praise upon a good deed, but the good doer would be foremost with the blame than the sinner, and the sinner foremost with the good deed than the good doer. These are the words of the idol worshippers and disputers to the Beneficent, and the Qadiriites (Fatalists) and Magians of this community. O Sheykh! Allah-azwj Mighty and Majestic Assigned choice, and Prohibited caution, and Gives a lot upon the little, and the one overcome would not disobey, and would not obey unwillingly, and He-azwj did not Create the skies and the earth and whatever is between the two in vain. That is a conjecture of those who are committing Kufr. So, doom from the Fire would be for those who are committing Kufr’. He (the narrator), ‘The sheykh got up and he was saying (in prose), ‘You-asws are the Imam-asws who we hope with obeying him-asws, for salvation on a Day from the Beneficent with Forgiveness, clarifying from our Religion what was confusing. May your-asws Lord-azwj Recompense you-asws excellently on our behalf regarding it, therefore there is no excuse in perpetrating immoralities. I used to indulge in mischief and (acts of) disobedience. No, No, and I did not accept His-azwj Prohibitions or take with it, worshipping Satan-la while being in this, O people, and I neither loved nor desired the mischief, nor killed the Guardian of His-azwj unjustly, out of hatred. I loved for His-azwj Determination to be stronger? The One-azwj with the Throne. Allah-azwj Proclaimed that with a Proclamation’. (Majlisi said), ‘Muhammad Bin Umar Al-Hafiz did not mention at the end of this Hadeeth, except two couplets from the poem from its beginning’’. ‘Al Tawheed’ – Ibn Abbas added in his Hadeeth – ‘The sheykh said, ‘O Amir Al-Momineen-asws! The Ordainment and the Pre-determination, are these two ushering us? And we did not descend a valley and did not ascend a hill except by these two? ’ So, Amir Al-Momineen-asws said: ‘The Command from Allah-azwj and the Decision’. Then he-asws recited the Verse: And your Lord has Decreed that you shall not worship except Him, and goodness with the parents [17: 23]’’. [19]