Hadith 51

(The book) ‘Misbah Al Sharia’ –
‘Al-Sadiq-asws said: ‘Whispering of the Gnostics rotates upon three principles – the fear, and the hope, and the love. The fear is a branch of knowledge, and the hope is a branch of conviction, and the love is a branch of the recognition, and the evidence of hope is the seeking, and evidence of the love is preferring the beloved over whoever is other than him. When the knowledge actualises in the chest, he fears, and when the persons increases in the understanding, he fears, and when the fear is correct, he flees, and when he flees, he is saved. And when the light of conviction shines in the heart, he witnesses the Grace, and when he is enabled from seeing the Grace, he hopes, and when he feels the sweetness of the hope, he seeks, and when he is successful of the seeking, he finds, and when the illumination of the understanding flashes in the heart it stirs the wind of love. And when the wind of love stirs, he is comforted by the shadows of the beloved, and he prefers the beloved over whoever is beside him, and he embraces his orders and shuns his forbiddances, and he chooses these two over all things other than these. And when he stays upon the carpet of comfort with the beloved, along with fulfilling his orders and shuns his forbiddances, he arrives to the soul of whispering and the nearness. And an example of these principles are three – like the Sanctuary, and the Masjid, and the Kabah. The one who enters the Sanctuary is safe from the people, and one who enters the Masjid his limbs are safe from being utilised in the disobedience, and the one who enters the Kabah his heart would be safe from being pre-occupied with other than the Zikr of Allah-azwj. Consider, O you Momin! If your state is a state you are pleased with at the horror of death, then thank Allah-azwj upon His-azwj Inclination and His-azwj Protection; and if the other happens, then transfer away from it with healthy determination, and regret upon that which has passed from your life in the heedlessness, and seek Assistance with Allah-azwj upon cleaning the purifying from the sins, and cleaning from the hidden faults, and cut off the heedlessness from yourself, and extinguish the fire of desire from yourself’’. [54]