Chapter on Fortunateness and Un-fortunateness
H 390, Ch. 28, h 1
It is narrated from Muhammad ibn Isma‘il from al-Fadl ibn Shadhan
from Saffron ibn Yahya from Mansur ibn Hazim from Imam abu ‘Abdallah (a.s.) who has
said the following.
"Allah created good fortune and bad fortune before He created the creatures. Whoever
Allah has created fortunate He never becomes angry with him even though he may do bad
deeds. He to reach and nor do the deep diving intelligence is capable to grasp. Most High
is Allah. It is He who is not subject to the effects of the numbered time or extended
period or limited attributes. Glorious is Allah, Who has no beginning that started or a
destination that would close or an end that would finish. Glorious is He Who is just as He
Him Self has introduced. Those who speak of His attributes can never praise Him duly. He
gave to everything a limit at the time of its creation for their non- similarity to Him
and His none-similarity to them. For Him th of would dislike his deeds but his own self.
If he is an unfortunate He would never love him even if he would do good deeds. He would
love his deeds but not his own self because of what he will end up to. If Allah would love
someone He will not dislike him and if He would dislike someone He will not love
him."
H 391, Ch. 28, h 2
It is narrated from Ali ibn Muhammad (in a marfu‘ manner) from
shu‘ayb al-‘aqaqufi from abu Basir who has said the following.
"I was in presence of Imam abu ‘abdallah (a.s.) when a certain person asked him
saying, ‘May Allah take my soul in service for your cause, O
great-great-great-great-grandson of the holy Prophet (s.a.), wherefrom misfortune took
hold of the people committing sins and so Allah in His knowledge deemed it for them to
suffer?" The Imam said, "It is the judgment of Allah, the Most Holy, the Most
High and no one has the right (to oppose it). When passed such judgment He gave to the
people of love the ability to know Him and relieved them of the hardships of deeds by
means of what they are capable of and He gave the people of sins the ability to commit
sins due His early knowledge and denying them the power to accept from Him, thus, they
agree with what is in His knowledge about them and they remain unable to do things that
would save them from His punishment. It is because His knowledge is more preferred in the
reality of judgment and acknowledgement and this is what is meant by He wanted what He
wanted and it is His secret"
H 392, Ch. 28, h 3
It is narrated from a number of our people from Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn
Khalid from his father from al-Nadr ibn Suwayd for Yahya ibn ‘Imran al-Halabi from
Mu’alla ibn ‘Uthman from Ali ibn Hanzala from Imam abu ‘Abdallah (a.s.) Who
has said the following.
The Imam said, "A fortunate person is made to walk on the path of the unfortunate
ones so much so that people would say, "How similar has he become with them? In fact,
he has become one of them. Then good fortune helps him. Sometimes a unfortunate one is
made to walk on the path of the fortunate ones and people begins to say, "How similar
has he become with them? In fact, he has become one of them. But misfortune takes hold of
him. Whoever Allah has written to be of the fortunate ones, even if very little time, such
equal to the period between two breast-feeding of a camel her young, would have been left
from his life in this world Allah will make it end in good fortune.