Jabir narrated: one day, Imam al-Baqir\n(PBUH) went out saying, “O Jabir, by Allah, the whole night passed while I\nam grieved and my heart is engaged.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I asked, “What grieves you and in\nwhat is your heart engaged? May Allah make me your sacrifice. Is it for the\nworld?”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Imam (PBUH) answered:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cNo, Jabir, It\nis the grief for the care of the hereafter. He whose heart is occupied by the\npure reality of faith will be far away from the worldly adornment. The\nadornment of this world is only play and entertainment. The Last Lodge is the\ntrue life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
O Jabir, The faithful believer should\nnot rely on and trust the adornment of this world. You should know that the\nseekers of the worldly affairs are people of inadvertence, arrogance, and\nignorance, while the seekers of hereafter are the faithful believers, who are\npracticing and pious. They are the people of knowledge, understanding,\npondering, lessons, and test. They never tire of remembering Allah.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
You should know, Jabir, that the true\nrich men are the pious. They are sufficed with the little worldly means. Their\nburdens are light. They remind you, if you forget, of charity, and help you do\nit. They have postponed their lusts and desires and preferred the acts of\nobedience to their Lord. They looked for the course of charity and the loyalty\nto the disciples of Allah; therefore, they loved, pursued, and followed them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Consider this world as a lodging in\nwhich you reside for one hour only and then you will leave, or as a wealth that\nyou dreamed about and made you happy, but when you woke up it was nothing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Retain, O Jabir, these matters of the\nreligion and the Lord’s words of wisdom that I am entrusting with you. Offer\nadvice for yourself and look at the primacy that you assign to Allah in your\nlife. In the same way, you will find your position before Him when you will be\nreturned to Him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
See if you have a different\nperspective about the world from what I have described for you (know that you\nare in a bad situation and<\/p>\n\n\n\n
dangerous position), you should move\nright now towards a situation that satisfies Allah.(1) It happens that one gets\nwhat he desires from the worldly affairs, but it becomes the source of\nmisfortune and unhappiness for him. Likewise, it happens that one disliked a <\/p>\n\n\n\n
matter of the world to come, but when\nhe got it, it was the source of redemption for him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
(The above is a\nselection taken from Tuhaf ul-Uqoul an Aal ir-Rasoul\/ compiled by Ibn\nShu\u2019ba Al-Harrani; translated by Badr\nShahin.\u2014 Qum: Ansariyan Publications, 2000.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Roshd Website offers condolences\nto all Muslims, especially you dear friend, upon 7th of Dhu al-Hijjah, the\nanniversary of the martyrdom of the leader of the insightful and the dissector\nof knowledge, Imam Muhammad ibn Ali al-Baqir (PBUH).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Footnotes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
1. In an\ninterpretation of this narration, the late Ayatollah Faiz Kashani states, \u201cThis\nmeans that if this world in your eyes was different from what I described, and\nyou take an interest in it, you have to depart from it to a lodging in which\nyou satisfy your Lord. In other words, even though your body is in this world,\nyour soul should revolve around the hereafter. You should seek Allah\u2019s\nsatisfaction and the salvation from hellfire until your death.\u201d (Wafi, vol. 4,\np. 396)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Jabir narrated: one day, Imam al-Baqir (PBUH) went out saying, “O Jabir, by Allah, the whole night passed while I am grieved and my heart is engaged.” I asked, “What grieves you and in what is your heart engaged? May Allah make me your sacrifice. Is it for the world?” Imam (PBUH) answered: \u201cNo, Jabir, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28248],"tags":[21476,17778,21477,18656,20937,17890,18418,17955,21475,17954],"class_list":["post-4393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-occasional-letters","tag-2013-10-13","tag-allah","tag-engaged","tag-heart","tag-imam-baqir","tag-life","tag-occasion-letters","tag-people","tag-transitory-dwelling","tag-true"],"yoast_head":"\n