Hadith 198

(The book) ‘Misbah Al Sharia’ –
‘Al-Sadiq-asws said: ‘The affliction is an adornment of the Momin and a prestige for the one with intellect, because in embracing it, and the patience upon it, and being steadfast during it corrects a proportion of the Eman. The Prophet-saww said: ‘We-as, community of the Prophets-as, are the people of severest of the afflictions’. The Momin is from the next superior, the next superior, and the one who tastes the taste of afflictions beneath a veil, Allah-azwj will Preserve for him its pleasure as being more than his pleasure with the bounty, and he will yearn to it when he loses it, because under the hand of an affliction and the Test there are lights of bounties, and beneath the lights of bounties there are flams of afflictions and the Test, and many have been saved from the affliction and many have been destroyed in the bounties. And Allah-azwj has not Praised upon any servant from His-azwj servants, since Adam-as up to Muhammad-saww except after having Tried (Afflicted) him, and loyalty is a right of the servitude in it. The honours of Allah-azwj in the reality, the affliction is in its ending and in its beginning. And the one who exits from the ingot of the tribulation is made a lamp of the Momineen, and comforter of the ones of proximity, and evidence for the aimers, and there is no good in a servant complaining of the Test (when) a thousand bounties have preceded it, and a thousand rests have followed it; and the one who does not fulfil the right of patience upon the affliction, is deprived of the thanking during the bounties. Like that is the one who does not fulfil the right of thanking during the bounties. He will be deprived from fulfilling the patience during the affliction, and the one who is deprived of it, so he is from the expelled ones’’. [102]
And Ayoub-as said in his-as supplication: ‘O Allah-azwj! There have come upon me-as seventy during the prosperity until there came upon me-as seventy during the afflictions’’. [103]
And Wahab said, ‘The affliction for the Momin is like the hook for the animal and the head strap to the camel’’. [104] (not a Hadeeth)
And Amir Al-Momineen-asws said: ‘The patience is from the Eman like the head is from the body, and head of the patience is the affliction, and no one understands it except the knowers’’. [105]
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