Privilege and Adversity

I was sitting before Abu `Abd Allah al-Sadiq (AS) and a questioner asked him, “May I be your ransom, O son of the Messenger of Allah (SA)! How does adversity reach the sinners so that He punished them for their actions…

O our Lord! Our adversity overcame us. He (AS) said: “They faced adversity as a result of their actions.”

I asked Abu al-Hasan Musa ibn Ja`far (AS) about the meaning of the Word of the Messenger of Allah (SA): “The adverse is one who had been adverse in the womb of his mother, and the privileged in one who had been…

The privileged will enter the path of the adverse until the people say: `He is so similar to them that he must be one of them.’ Then the privilege reaches him. And sometimes the adverse enters the path of the privileged…

Abu `Abd Allah al-Sadiq (AS) said: Verily, Allah, the Mighty and High, created privileged and adversity before He created His Creation. So whoever Allah knows to be privileged, Allah is never displeased with Him at any…

“He intervenes between man and the belief that falsehood is the righteous.” It is also said: “Verily, Allah, the Blessed and Exalted, intervenes between man and his heart through death.” Abu `Abd Allah (AS) said:…