Hadith 30

s what they can be serving with, from the Commands and the Prohibitions, and Accepts from them the following of His-azwj Commands, and is Pleased with that from them, and Prohibited them from disobeying Him-azwj, and Condemns the one who disobeys Him-azwj and Punishes him upon it. And for Allah-azwj is the choice in the Command and the Prohibition. He-azwj Chooses whatever He-azwj Wants and Commands with it and Prohibits from what He-azwj Dislikes, and He-azwj Rewards and Punishes based on the capabilities which He-azwj Gave to His-azwj servants to follow His-azwj Command and shun disobeying Him-azwj, because He-azwj is the Just, and from Him-azwj is the Fairness and the Governance. He-azwj Concludes the Argument with the Excusing and the Warning, and to Him-azwj are the Elites. He-azwj Chooses the ones He-azwj so Desires from His-azwj servants. He-azwj Chose Muhammad-saww, and Sent him-saww with the Message to His-azwj creatures, and had He-azwj Delegated the choice in matters to His-azwj servants, it would have been allowed for the Quraysh to choose Amiyah Bin Al-Salt and Abu Masoud Al-Saqafy, when they both were superior in their presence than Muhammad-saww, to what they said, ‘If only this Quran had been Revealed unto a great man from the two towns’ [43: 31], meaning these two by that. This, it is the word between the two words. It isn’t by Compulsion nor Delegation. Amir Al-Momineen-asws informed that when he-asws was asked by Abayat Bin Rabi’e Al-Asady about the capability. Amir Al-Momineen-asws said: ‘Do you own it (capability) from besides Allah-azwj or with Allah-azwj? ’ Abayat Bin Rabi’e was silent, and he-asws said to him: ‘Speak, O Abayat! ’ He said, ‘And what shall I say? ’ He-asws said, ‘If you say, you own it with Allah-azwj, I-asws will kill you, and if you say, you own it from besides Allah-azwj, I-asws will (still) kill you’. He said, ‘And what should I be saying, O Amir Al-Momineen-asws? ’ He-asws said: ‘You should be saying you own it by Allah-azwj Who owns is from besides you, for His-azwj Making your own it is from His-azwj Gifts, and if He-azwj Deprives it, that would be from His-azwj Afflictions, and He-azwj is the Owner of what you own, and the Owner of what He-azwj Enabled you upon. Have you not heard the people requesting the might and the strength when they are saying, ‘There is neither Might nor Strength except with Allah-azwj? ’
The man said, ‘And what is its interpretation, O Amir Al-Momineen-asws? ’ He-asws said: ‘There is no might for us on disobeying except by the Protection of Allah-azwj, and there is no strength for us upon obeying Allah-azwj except by the Assistance of Allah-azwj’. The man leapt up and kissed his-asws hands and his-asws legs. Then he-asws said: ‘Regarding the Words of the Exalted: And We will Test you until We Make known the striving ones from you and the patient ones, and We Test your affairs [47: