Hadith 28

(The book) ‘Al Kafi’ – From Ali Bin Ibrahim, from Ali Bin Muhammad Al Qasany, from the one who mentioned it, from Abdullah Bin Al Qasim, ‘From Abu Abdullah-asws having said: ‘Whenever Allah-azwj Wants good with a servant, He-azwj Makes him an ascetic in the world and Make him understand the religion and Make him insightful of its defects; and the one who has been Given these has been Given good of the world and the Hereafter’. And he-asws said: ‘No one has sought the truth with a door superior to the ascetism in the world, and it is opposite to what the enemies of truth tend to seek’. I said, ‘May I be sacrificed for you-asws! That is from what? ’
He-asws said: ‘From being desirous regarding it’. And he-asws said: ‘Is there anyone patient, benevolent? And rather these are a few days, except that it is Prohibited unto you all to find the taste of Eman until you are ascetic in the world’’. [32]
He (the narrator) said, ‘When the Momin vacates (his heart) from the world, soaring (spiritually), and find sweetness of the love of Allah-azwj, and he was in the presence of people of the world as if he had mingled, and rather he had mingled with sweetness of love of Allah-azwj, so he did not pre-occupy with others’’. [33]
And I heard him-asws saying: ‘The heart, when it is clear, the earth is constricted with it until he soars (spiritually, being a Gnostic)’’. [34]
Explanation (Ahadeeth only) – So he becomes like what he-asws said: ‘Had it not been for the terms which have been Written upon them, their souls would not have stayed in their bodies for the blink of an eye’. And for that (reason), Master-asws of the Momineen said at the martyrdom: ‘I-asws have succeeded, by Lord-azwj of the Kaaba! ’’