Hadith 138

(The book) ‘Nahj Al Balagah’ –
‘From a speech of his-asws: ‘By Allah-azwj! If I were to spend a night upon the thorns of Al-Sa’dan (a thorny bush) being awake, and I-asws am dragged bound in shackles, it would be more beloved to me-asws than if I-asws were to meet Allah-azwj and His-azwj Rasool-saww on the Day of Qiyamah having been unjust to one of the servants and having usurped something from the debris (of the world). And how can I-asws be unjust to any soul its body is hastening to the decay and its permeation is prolonged in the soil. By Allah-azwj! I-asws have seen (my-asws brother) Aqeel and he had become bankrupt to the extent that he asked me-asws for a Sa’a (3kg) of your wheat, and I-asws saw his children as of shaggy types due to their poverty, and if their faces had been darkened with the dark indigo. And he kept coming back and reiterating the word upon me-asws. I-asws listened intently to him and he thought that I-asws would sell my-asws religion to him and follow his lead separating from my-asws path. I-asws heated an iron for him, then brought it closer to his body to teach him a lesson with it. He yelled with a yell as one yells from pangs of his illness, and he had almost been burned from its branding. I-asws said to him: ‘May the mourners mourn over you, O Aqeel! Are you yelling from an iron heated by a human being for his playing and you are dragging me-asws to a Fire inflamed by its Subduer for His-azwj Wrath? Are you yelling from the harm and I-asws should not yell from the Fire (of Hell)? ’
And more surprising than that is a comer at night (Al-Ash’as Bin Qays) came to us-asws with a cabbage mix in a bowl and a kneaded mix, it was as if it had been kneaded with saliva of a serpent or its vomit. I-asws said, ‘Is it help or Zakat or charity? All that is Prohibited unto us-asws, People-asws the Household’. He said, ‘Neither that nor that, but it is a gift’. I-asws said: ‘May the pregnant ones weep over you! Is it about the religion of Allah-azwj you have come to me-asws to deceive me-asws, or are you confused, or are you with insanity, or are you delirious? By Allah-azwj! Even if I-asws am given the contents of the seven skies along with that is under these upon a condition that I-asws disobey Allah-azwj by confiscating a grain of barley from an ant, I-asws will not do so, and your world in my-asws presence is lesser than a (Piece of) leaf in the mouth of a locust chewing it. What is to Ali-asws and perishable bounties, and pleasures which do not last? We-asws seek Refuge with Allah-azwj from a lapse of the intellect and the ugly missteps, and with Him-azwj we seek Assistance’’. [104]