Hadith 95

(The book) ‘Al Kafi’ – Ali Bin Ibrahim, from Salih Bin Al Sindy, from Ja’far Bin Bashir, from Sabbah Al Haza’a, from Abu Usama who said, ‘I was a co-traveller of Abu Abdullah-asws’. He (the narrator) said, ‘He-asws said to me: ‘Read (Quran)! ’ So I began a Surah from the Quran and read it. He-asws softened and cried, then said: ‘O Abu Usama! Pasture your hearts with the Zikr of Allah-azwj Mighty and Majestic, and be cautious of the spot, for it comes upon the heart at times, or at times of doubt from the morning, not having any Eman in it nor Kufr. It resembles the worn-out rag or the decayed bone. O Abu Usama! Isn’t it so that sometimes your heart is lost, so neither nor evil is mentioned in it, and one doesn’t know where he is? ’
He (the narrator) said, ‘I said to him-asws, ‘Yes, it has afflicted me, and I have seen it afflicting the people! ’
He-asws said: ‘Yes, not one is bare form it’. He-asws said: ‘Whenever it were to be like that, then do Zikr of Allah-azwj Mighty and Majestic, and be careful of the spot, for whenever He-azwj Wants good with a servant, it knocks Eman, and when He-azwj Wants other than that with him, Knocks other than that’. He (the narrator) said, ‘I said, ‘What is other than that? May I be sacrificed for you-asws, what is it? ’
He-asws said: ‘When He-azwj Wants Kufr, it knock Kufr’’. [107]
(The book) ‘Asraar Al Salat’ –
‘From the Prophet-saww having said: ‘The heart of a Momin is barest. In it is a blossoming lamp, and the heart of a Kafir is dark, overturned’’. [108]
And from Sufyan Bin Uyayna who said, ‘I asked Al-Sadiq-asws about Words of Allah-azwj Mighty and Majestic: Except one who comes to Allah with an unblemished heart [26: 89]. He-asws said: ‘The unblemished is which meets its Lord-azwj and there isn’t anyone in it besides Him-azwj’. And he-asws