Hadith 203

(The book) ‘Nahj Al-Balagah; –
‘From a speech of his-asws at the recitation of: Men whom neither trading nor selling diverts them from the Zikr of Allah [24: 37], he-asws said: ‘Allah-azwj Glorious has Made the Zikr a polishing for the hearts to hear with it after the deafness and be insightful with it after the blindness, and succumb with it after the obstinacy. And there did not depart for Allah-azwj His-azwj Mighty Favours in the period after the period, and in times are the times of gap period (of the Prophets-as), servants He-azwj Rescued them in their thinking, and Spoke to them with their intellects. So they became awakened by the Noor in the hearing and the sight and the heart, remembering the days of Allah-azwj and fearing His-azwj Pausing them in the status of pointers in the wilderness. One who took with the middle path was praising Him-azwj His-azwj Path and His-azwj Glad tidings with the salvation, and the one who took to the right and the left, they condemned His-azwj path, and they cautioned of the destruction, and they were like that, lamps in that darkness, and pointer in those suspicions. And for the Zikr there are people who have taking it as a replacement from the world, so neither trade nor selling pre-occupies them from it. By (Zikr) they are cutting the days of the life, and they are alerting with the rebukes from the Prohibitions of Allah-azwj into the ears of the heedless ones, and instructing them with the fairness are practicing it, and they are forbidding from the evil and are staying away from it. It is as if they are cutting across the world to the Hereafter while they are in it, so they are witnessing what is beyond that. It is as if they are notified of the hidden matters of the people of purgatory regarding the length of their stay in it, and the Qiyamah has been prov