Hadith 59

e if you were to indulge in what you have been Forbidden from. O Hisham! If there was a walnut in your hands and the people said, ‘A pearl’, it would not benefit you, and you know very well it is a walnut; and if there was a pearl in your hand and the people said, ‘A walnut! ’, it would not harm you, and you know very well that it is a pearl. O Hisham! Allahazwj did not Send Hisazwj Prophetsas and Hisazwj Rasoolsas to Hisazwj servant except that theyas would be using theiras intellects about Allahazwj. Therefore, the best of themas in Answering is the best of themas in understanding, and the most knowledgeable of themas with the Commands of Allahazwj is the best of themas in intellect, and the most perfect of themas in intellect is the highest of themas in status in the world and the Hereafter. O Hisham! There is none from a servant except and there is an Angel who seizes his forelock, so he is not humble except Allahazwj Raises him, and he does not grow bigger except Allahazwj Places him down. O Hisham! For Allahazwj, upon the people, are two (kinds of) Proofs – an apparent Proof and a hidden Proof. As for the apparent Proofs, so these are the Rasoolsas, and the Prophetsas, and the Imamsasws; and as for the hidden, so these are the intellects. O Hisham! The intellectual is the one whom the Permissible do not pre-occupy him from thanking Himazwj, nor do the Prohibitions overcome his patience. O Hisham! The one whom three (things) overcome three (things) so it is as if he is assisted upon the ruination of his own intellect – the one who darkens the light of his pondering by the prolongation of his expectancies, and his antics delete his wisdom by the vanities of his speech, and he extinguishes the light of his learning (lessons) by the lustful desires of his self. Thus, it is as if he is assisting himself upon the ruination of his own intellect. And the one who ruins his intellect, his Religion and his world would be spoilt upon him. O Hisham! How can your deeds be Purified in the Presence of Allahazwj and you have pre-occupied your heart from (obeying) the Commands of your Lordazwj and are obeying your own whims upon overcoming your own intellect? O Hisham! The patience upon the loneliness is a sign of the strength of the intellect. So the one who uses his intellect about Allahazwj would isolate himself from the people of the world and the ones who are desirous (for it) therein, and he would be desirous regarding what is in the Presence of Allahazwj; and it would that Allahazwj would be his Comfort during the fear, and his Companion during the loneliness, and his Richness during the poverty, and his Consolation from without (having) a tribe. O Hisham! Establish the Truth for the obedience of Allahazwj, and there is no salvation except by the obedience, and the obedience is with the knowledge, and the knowledge is with the learning, and the learning is with the intellectual thought; and there is no knowledge except from a Divine Scholarasws, and the recognition of the knowledge is with the intellect. O Hisham! The few deeds from the learned are Accepted (and) multiplied, and the abundant deeds from the people of the opinions and the ignorant ones are rejected. O Hisham! If whatever suffices you enriches you, then the lease of what is in the world you suffice you, and if whatever suffices you does not enrich you, then there isn’t anything from the world which can enrich you. O Hisham! The intellectual ones are neglecting the vanities of the world, so how (would they not neglect) the sins, and the neglect of the world is from the merits and neglect of the sins is from the Obligations. O Hisham! The intellectuals are ascetic regarding the world and are desirous regarding the Hereafter, because they know that the world is a seeker and is sought, and the Hereafter is a seeker and is sought. Thus, the one who seeks the Hereafter, he would seek the world (to the extent) until it fulfils his sustenance from it, and the one who seeks the world, the Hereafter would seek him, and the death would come to him, so it would spoil his world upon him and (as well as) his Hereafter. O Hisham! The one who intends the riches without wealth, and at ease his heart from the envy, and the safety in the Religion, so let him beseech to Allahazwj Mighty and Majestic that his intellect is to be perfected. So the one who has intellect would be content with whatever would suffice him, and the one who is contented with whatever suffices him, would be needless, and the one who is not content with what suffices him, would not achieve the riches, ever’. O Hisham! Allahazwj has Related about a righteous people that they were saying ‘Our Lord! Do not Let our hearts to deviate after You have Guided us aright, and Grant us Mercy from You; surely You are the Bestower [3: 8], when they came to know that the hearts do deviate and returns to their blindness and their rejections. He does not fear Allahazwj, the one who does not use his intellect about Allahazwj, and the one who does not use his intellect about Allahazwj, would not have certainty of his heart upon the affirmed recognition to see it and find its reality in his heart; and no one can happen to be lik