Hadith 25

(The book) ‘Falah Al Sa’il’ – It is reported by the author of the book ‘Zohad Mawlana Ali-asws Bin Abu Talib-asws’, he said, ‘It is narrated to us by Sa’ad Bin Abdullah, from Ibrahim Bin Mhaziyar, from his brother Ali, from Muhammad Bin Sinan, from Salih Bin Uqbah, from Amro Bin Abu Al Miqdam, from his father, from Habbat Al Urny who said, ‘While I and Nowf were sleeping in the yard of the government building, when we were with Amir Al-Momineen-asws in a remainder of the night, he-asws placed his-asws hand upon the wall, as if he-asws was disturbed (by something), and he-asws was saying: ‘Surely in the Creation of the skies and the earth, [2: 164] – up to the end of the Verse. He (the narrator) said, ‘Then he-asws went on to recite these Verses and he-asws passed by resembling one whose intellect has flow away. He-asws said to me: ‘Are you sleeping, O Habbat, or wide awake? ’ I said, ‘Wide awake. This is you-asws doing this deed, so how can we (sleep)? ’
His-asws eyes filled up and he-asws cried, then said to me: ‘O Habbat! There is a pausing for Allah-azwj, and for us-asws there is a pausing in front of Him-azwj. There is nothing from our deeds hidden unto Him-azwj. O Habbat! Allah-azwj is closer to me-asws and you than the jugular vein. O Habbat! Nothing will ever veil me-asws and you from Allah-azwj’. He (the narrator) said, ‘Then he-asws said: ‘Are you asleep, O Nowf! ’ He said, ‘No, O Amir Al-Momineen-asws, I am not asleep. My crying has been prolonged this night’. He-asws said: ‘O Nowf! If your crying is prolonged in this night out of fear of Allah-azwj the Exalted, your eye will be delighted tomorrow in front of Allah-azwj Mighty and Majestic. O Nowf! There isn’t any drop dripping from an eye of a man out of fear from Allah-azwj, except it would extinguish a fire from the fires. O Nowf! There isn’t any man of a more magnificent status in the Presence of Allah-azwj than a man who cries from fear of Allah-azwj, and he loves for the Sake of Allah-azwj and hates for the Sake of Allah-azwj. O Nowf! Surely the one who loves for the Sake of Allah-azwj would not have an adverse effect upon his love, and one who hates for the Sake of Allah-azwj, his hatred will not attain good (of the world) by his hatred. During that, the realities of the Eman will be perfected’. Then he-asws advised them both (Habbat and Nowf) and reminded them and said in its end: ‘Be upon a caution from Allah-azwj, for I-asws have already warned you both’. Then he-asws went passing by and he-asws was saying: ‘I-asws wish I-asws was aware in my-asws negligence, will you be turning away from me-asws or be near to me-asws. And I-asws wish I-asws was aware during the length of my-asws sleep, and scarcity of my-asws thanking during Your-azwj Favours upon me-asws, what my-asws situation is’. He (the narrator) said, ‘He-asws did not cease to be in this state until the emergence of dawn’’. [43]