Hadith 59

tious of its people, for the people in it are upon four types – a man wandering man embracing his passions, and a learned student, every time he increases his knowledge, his arrogance increases. He notifies, by his recitation and his knowledge, the ones below him. And ignorant worshipper, belittling ones who are below him in his worship. He loves to be magnified and dignified. And an insightful learned one, understanding the way of the truth. He loves to stand by it, but he is either frustrated or overcome, and is not able upon the standing with what he knows. Thus he is aggrieved, gloomy due to that, and he is a representative of the people of his era and guides them by intellect. O Hisham! Recognise the intellect and its armies, and the ignorance and its armies, you would become from the guided ones’. Hisham said, ‘So I said, ‘We do not recognise anything except what youasws have introduced to us’. So Abu Abdullahasws said: ‘O Hisham! Allahazwj Mighty and Majestic Created the intellect, and it was the first thing Created, from the spiritual (creations), from the right of the Throne, from Hisazwj Light. So Heazwj Said to it: “Turn around! ” So it turned around. Then Said: “Come! ” So it came”. So Allahazwj Blessed and High Said: “Iazwj have Created you as a magnificent creation and Honoured you upon the entirety of Myazwj creation’. Heasws said: ‘Then Heazwj Created the ignorance from the dark wavy ocean. So Heazwj Said to it: “Turn around! ” So it turned around. Then Said to it: “Come! ” But it did not come. So Heazwj Said to it: “You are being arrogant? ” So Heazwj Cursed it. Then Heazwj Made seventy-five armies for the intellect. So when the ignorance saw what Allahazwj had Honoured the intellect with and what Heazwj had Granted it, (ignorance) harboured the enmity for it. So the ignorance said, ‘O Lordazwj! This is a creation like me. Youazwj Created it, and Honoured it, and Strengthened it, and I am its opposite, and there is not (enough) strength for me in comparison. Therefore, Grant me an army similar to what Youazwj had Granted it’. So Heazwj Said: “Yes. But, if you were to disobey Meazwj after that, Iazwj shall Throw you and your army out of Myazwj Mercy’. It said, ‘I have agreed’. Then Heazwj Granted it seventy-five armies. Thus, from what Heazwj Granted to the intellect, from the seventy-five armies was the goodness, and it is the Vizier of the intellect; the evil, and it is the Vizier of the ignorance; and the Eman, the Kufr (disbelief). The ratification, the belying. The sincerity, the hypocrisy. The wishing, the contentment. The justice, the tyranny. The pleasure, the anger. The gratefulness, the ingratitude. The despair, the greed. The reliance (upon Allahazwj), the independence. The clemency, the harshness. The knowledge, the ignorance. The chastity, the shamelessness. The ascetism, the desires. The gentleness, the hardness. The awe, the audacity. The humbleness, the arrogance. The leisureliness, the haste. The forbearance, the recklessness. The silence, the chatter. The submission, the haughtiness. The submission, the compulsion. The pardoning, the antagonism. The mercy, the ruthlessness. The certainty, the doubt. The patience, the anxiety. The forgiveness, the revenge. The richness, the poverty. The pondering, the omission. The remembering, the forgetting. The maintenance (of relationships), the cutting off. The contentment, the discontent. The consolation, the commiseration. The cordiality, the enmity. The loyalty, the treachery. The obedience, the disobedience. The yielding, the insolence. The safety, the affliction. The understanding, the stupidity. The recognition, the denial. The safeguarding of hidden matters, the non-restraint. The concealment, the exposure. The righteousness, the disobedience. The reality, the stalling. The good, the evil. The dissimulation, the broadcasting. The justice, the injustice. The negation, the envy. The cleanliness, the filthiness. The embarrassment, the impudence. The economising, the extravagance. The rest, the exhaustion. The ease, the difficulty. The health, the affliction. The straightness, the crookedness. The wisdom, the whims. The dignity, the abjectness. The fortunate, the wickedness. The repentance, the persistence (in sinning). The fear, the complacency. The supplicating, the refraining (from it). The activity, the laziness. The happiness, the grief. The friendliness, the aversion. The generosity, the stinginess. The humbleness, the self-conceitedness. The truthful narration, the gossip. The seeking of forgiveness, the dithering. The courteousness, the foolishness. O Hisham! There characteristics will not be gathered except for a Prophetas of a successoras of a Prophetas, or a Momin whose heart Allahazwj has Tested for the Eman. And as for the rest of that from the Momineen, so one of them would not be empty from there happening to be in him some of these armies from the armies of the intellect, until he perfect the intellect, and finishes off from the armies of the ignorance. Thus, during that, he would happen to be in the lofty levels along with the Prophetsas and the successorsas, and may Allahazwj Harmonise us and you all to Hisazwj obedience’. [100]