Hadith 59

o not mix with anyone of them except one upon whom you hand would be higher (i. e. you will give rather than receive), then do so. O Hisham! Upon you is with the kindness, for the kindness is a blessing, and the breach is inauspicious; and the righteousness and good manners build the households, and bring about an increase in the sustenance. O Hisham! The Words of Allahazwj: Is the Recompense of goodness except for the goodness? [55: 60], flows regarding the Momin and the Kafir, and the righteous and the immoral. One to whom a good deed is done, so upon him is that he sufficiently rewards it, and it isn’t sufficient that he should do just as has been done (to him, but) until you see your extra, for if you were to do just as he has done, then for him is the superiority due to his initiating. O Hisham! An example of the world is like an example of the snake – its touch is soft, and in its interior is the killer venom. The men with intellect beware of it, and the children incline towards it with their hands. O Hisham! Be patient upon obedience of Allahazwj, and be patient from disobeying Allahazwj, for rather, the world is a time period, so whatever has passed from it, you will neither find happiness for it nor grief, and what has yet to come from it, you don’t recognise it yet, therefore be patient upon that time which you are in (at the moment), as if you are to about to die. O Hisham! An example of the world is an example of water of the sea, every time someone drinks from it, it increases his thirst, until it kills him. O Hisham! Beware of the arrogance, for he would not enter the Paradise, one who has in his heart, a particle of arrogance; and the Greatness is a Cloak of Allahazwj, so one who snatches Hisazwj Cloak, Allahazwj would Fling him into the Fire, upon his face. O Hisham! He isn’t from us, one who does not reckon himself during every day. So if he does a good deed, he increases upon it, and if he does a bad deed, he seeks Forgiveness of Allahazwj from it, and repents to Himazwj. O Hisham! The world was made into a resemblance for the Messiahas, in an image of a blue-eyed woman, so heas said to it: ‘How many times did you marry? ’ She said, ‘Many’. Heas said: ‘So did they all divorce you? ’ She said, ‘But, I killed them all’. The Messiahas said: ‘Woe be unto your remaining husbands, how come they are not taking a lesson from the past ones? ’
O Hisham! The illumination of the body is in its eyes, so if the sight was clear, it would illuminate the body, all of it; and the illumination of the soul is the intellect. So when the servant was an intellectual, he would know his Lordazwj, and when he was a knower of his Lordazwj, he would have insight into his Religion; and if he was ignorant of his Lordazwj, Religion would not stand for him, just as the body cannot stand except with the soul of life, similar to that, the Religion cannot stand except with the truthful intention, nor can the truthful intention be affirmed except by the intellect. O Hisham! The vegetation grows in the plains and does not grow in the desert, similar to that, the wisdom builds in the humble heart and does not build in the heart of the arrogant tyrant, because Allahazwj Make the humbles to be a tool of the intellect, and Made the arrogance to be from the tools of ignorance. Do you not know that the one who rises with his head to the ceiling, falls? And one who lowers his head, shades under it and shelters? Similar to that, one who is not humble to Allahazwj, Allahazwj would Put him down, and one who is humble to Allahazwj, Heazwj would Raise him. O Hisham! How ugly is the poverty after the riches, and how ugly is the sinning after the devotion, and uglier than that is the worshipper of Allahazwj, then he leaves worshipping Himazwj. O Hisham! Nothing better has been distributed between the servant than the intellect. The sleep of the intellectual is superior than the vigil of the ignorant one, and Allahazwj did not Send a Prophetas except as an intellectual, until hisas intellect happened to be superior than the entirety of the strivings of the strivers; and the servant cannot fulfil an Obligation from the Obligations of Allahazwj until he understands about it. O Hisham! Rasool-Allahsaww said: ‘When you see the Momin being silent, then go near him, for he would cast the wisdom, and the Momin is of few words, many deeds, and the hypocrite is of many words, few deeds. O Hisham! Allahazwj Revealed unto Dawoodas: “Tell Myazwj servants not to make between Meazwj and them, scholars having a fascination for the world, for they hinder them from Myazwj Zikr (remembrance), and (hinder them) from Myazwj Way and Myazwj Manifesto, they tend to cut off the way from Myazwj servants. The lease of what Iazwj would be Doing with them is that Iazwj shall Snatch away the sweetness of Myazwj worship and Myazwj Manifesto from their hearts”. O Hisham! One who has greatness within himself, are being Cursed by the Angels of the sky and the Angels of the earth, and one who is arrogant upon his brethren and prolongs upon them, so he has opposed Allahazwj, and one who claims what isn’t for him, so he has (claimed) what is meant for others. O Hisham! Allahazwj Revealed