Hadith 224

(The book) ‘Misbah Al Sharia’ –
‘Al-Sadiq-asws said: ‘The certainty leads the servant to every splendid situation and wonderous position. Like that Rasool-Allah-saww informed about the magnificence of the glory of certainty when it was mentioned in his-saww presence that Isa-as Ibn Maryam-as used to walk upon the water. He-saww said: ‘If he-as had increased his-as certainty, he-as would have walked in the air’. It evidences with this that the Prophets-as, despite being with majesty of their-as position from Allah-azwj, used to be merited based upon the reality of the certainty, not something else, and there is no end to the increase in certainty upon the servant. And the Momineen as well are differentiated regarding the strength of certainty and its weakness. The strong ones from them in his certainty, his sign is the disavowing from the might and the strength except with Allah-azwj and being steadfast upon the Command of Allah‑azwj and worshipping Him-azwj apparently and esoterically (privately). It is the same with him, the state of non-existence and the existence, and the increase and the decrease, and the praise and the condemnation, and the honour and the humiliation, because he sees all of these from one eye. And the one whose conviction is weak, would cling to the means and allow himself with that, and follow the norms and the words of the people without any reality, and he strives regarding affairs of the world, and he amasses it and withholds it, acknowledging with the tongues that there is neither any preventer nor give except Allah-azwj, and the servant cannot achieve except what is Graced and apportioned for him, and the efforts cannot increase the sustenance, and (but) he denies that with his deeds and his heart. Allah-azwj Mighty and Majestic Said: They are saying with their mouths what is not in their hearts, and Allah best Knows what they are concealing [3: 167], and rather, Allah-azwj the Exalted is Compassionate with His-azwj servants whereby He-azwj Permitted for them regarding the earning and the movement in the subject of the livelihood for as long as they do not exceed His-azwj Limits, and do not neglect His-azwj Obligations and Sunnahs of His-azwj Prophet‑saww in entirety of their movements, and they do not turn away from the manifesto of the reliance, nor pause in a field of greed. As for when they forget that and associate with different to what has been Limited for them, they would be from the destroyed ones, those not having for them in the end except the false claims. And every earning not being reliant (upon Allah-azwj), so it does not pull from his earning to himself except Prohibition, and suspicion, and its sign is that he would inherit from what has resulted from his earning, and he would prefer what has resulted from his earning and he will go hungry and not spend in the way of religion, and he will withhold. And the one authorised with the earning is the one who would be earning with himself and reliant (upon Allah-azwj) with his heart; and if the wealth is abundant with him, he would stand in it like the trustee, knowing that the existence of that wealth and its loss are the same, and if he withholds, he will withhold it for Allah-azwj, and if he spends, he will spend in what Allah‑azwj Mighty and Majestic has Commanded him, his preventing and his giving would be for the Sake of Allah-azwj’’. [55]