Hadith 49

and Enters his inheritors into the Paradise due to it’. It was said, ‘How can this be so? ’
He-asws said: ‘Just like what one of our brothers narrated to me-asws about a man who entered to see him while he was ushering (livestock). He said to him, ‘O so and so! What do you say regarding one hundred thousand (Dirhams) being in this box, I have not paid Zakat from it at all? ’
He said, ‘I said, ‘Then for what reason did you collect it? ’
He said, ‘Fear of the ruler and competing with the clan, and fear of the poverty upon the dependants, and for dread of the times! ’
He said, ‘The he had not exited from his presence until his soul departed’. Then Ali-asws said: ‘The Praise is for Allah-azwj Who Took him out of this world blameworthy, for he had gathered it through falsehood and withheld it from its rightful place. He stored it up and bound it tightly, traversed deserts, wastelands, and the depths of the seas for it! O you who stand here! Do not be deceived as your companion was deceived yesterday! Indeed, the people with the greatest regret on the Day of Qiyamah will be those who see their wealth in the scales of others. Allah-azwj will Admit this one into the Paradise due to it, and Enter that one into the Fire due to it! ’’[68]
And Al-Sadiq-asws said: ‘And mightier than this regret is a man who amassed immense wealth with severe toil, direct confrontation with hardships, and travelling across regions. Then he spent his wealth on charity and good deeds, and spent his youth and strength in worship and Salat, yet despite all this, he did not acknowledge the right of Ali-asws Bin Abu Talib-asws, may the greeting be upon him-asws, nor did he recognise his-asws true status in Islam! He considered someone inferior, who is not even a tenth of a tenth of merit of Ali-asws as superior than him-asws. He encountered clear proofs but did not reflect on them, and when the Verses and reports were presented to him as evidence, he only increased in misguidance and stubbornness. That is the one of the greatest regret of all. On the Day of Qiyamah, his charities will appear before him in the form of serpents that bite him, and his Salats and acts of worship will appear in the form of the guardians of Hell, pushing him until they drive him violently into Hell! He will say, ‘Woe to me! Was I not among those who prayed? Was I not among those who gave charity? Was I not chaste, refraining from people’s wealth and their chaste women? So why was I struck with what I was struck with? ’
It will be said to him, ‘O miserable one, what you have learned will not benefit you, for you have neglected the greatest obligations after the Oneness of Allah-azwj and Eman with the Prophethood of Muhammad-saww, You have also