358 - الامتحان‏

358. TESTING

1637 - الاِمتِحانُ‏

1637. Testing

5713.الإمامُ عليٌّ عليه السلام : إنّ أمرَنا صَعبٌ مُستَصعَبٌ ، لا يَحمِلُهُ إلّا عَبدٌ مؤمنٌ امتَحَنَ اللَّهُ قَلبَهُ للإيمانِ .¹

5713.Imam Ali (AS) said, 'Our affair [ruling] is hard, considerably difficult; no one can bear it save the servant whose heart Allah has tested for faith.' ²

5714.الإمامُ عليٌّ عليه السلام - في صفةِ الأنبياءِ عليهم السلام والأولياءِ - : قَدِ اختَبَرهُمُ اللَّهُ بالمَخمَصَةِ ، وابتَلاهُم بالمَجهَدَةِ ، وامتَحَنَهُم بالمَخاوِفِ .³

5714. Imam Ali (AS), in the description of prophets (AS) and saints, said, 'Allah has examined them with hunger, and has tried them with struggles, and has tested them with fears.' ⁴

5715.الإمامُ عليٌّ عليه السلام : اُخبُرْ تَقْلِهِ‏⁵.⁶

5715.Imam Ali (AS) said, 'Try a man and you will [come to] hate him.' ⁷

5716.الإمامُ عليٌّ عليه السلام : عِندَ الامتِحانِ يُكرَمُ الرّجُلُ أو يُهانُ .⁸

5716.Imam Ali (AS) said, 'During a test is a person elevated or humiliated.' ⁹

5717.الإمامُ عليٌّ عليه السلام : يُمتَحَنُ الرّجُلُ بفِعلِهِ لا بِقَولِهِ.¹⁰

5717.Imam Ali (AS) said, 'A man is tested in his actions and not in his sayings.' ¹¹

5718.الإمامُ عليٌّ عليه السلام : ثَلاثٌ يُمتَحَنُ بها عُقولُ الرِّجالِ، هُنَّ : المالُ ، والوِلايَةُ ، والمُصيبَةُ .¹²

5718.Imam Ali (AS) said, 'Three things test men's intellects. They are: wealth, guardianship (wilaya) and calamity.' ¹³

5719.الإمامُ الصّادقُ عليه السلام : خالِطِ النّاسَ تَخبُرْهُم، ومتى‏ تَخبُرْهُم تَقْلِهِم .¹⁴

5719.Imam al-Sadiq (AS) said, 'Socialise with people and test them, and when you test them you will [come to] hate them.' ¹⁵

5720.الإمامُ الصّادقُ عليه السلام : اِمتَحِنوا شِيعَتَنا عِندَ ثَلاثٍ : عِندَ مَواقيتِ الصَّلاةِ كيفَ مُحافَظَتُهُم علَيها ، وعِندَ أسرارِهِم كيفَ حِفظُهُم لَها عِندَ عَدُوِّنا ، وإلى‏ أموالِهِم كيفَ مُواساتُهُم لإخوانِهِم فيها .¹⁶

5720.Imam al-Sadiq (AS) said, 'Test our followers [Shia] with three things: at times of prayer and how well they observe them, secrets and how they guard them from our enemies, and their wealth and how they aid their brothers with it.' ¹⁷

357 - اللّواط

357. SODOMY

1636 - التَّحذِيرُ عَنِ اللِّواطِ

1636. CAUTION AGAINST SODOMY

(وَلُوطاً إِذْ قَالَ لِقَوْمِهِ أَتَأْتُونَ الفَاحِشَةَ مَا سَبَقَكُمْ بِهَا مِنْ أَحَدٍ مِنَ العَالَمِينَ * إِنَّكُمْ لَتَأْتُونَ الرِّجَالَ شَهْوَةً مِنْ دُونِ النِّسَاءِ بَلْ أَنْتُمْ قَوْمٌ مُسْرِفُونَ) .¹

"And Lot, when he said to his people, 'What! Do you commit an outrage none in the world ever committed before you?! Indeed you come to men with desire instead of women! Rather you are a profligate lot." ²

(اُنظر) الأنبياء : 74 والشعراء : 165 - 174 والنمل : 54 ، 55 والعنكبوت : 28 - 35 .

(See also: Qur'an 21:74, 26:165-174, 27:54-55, 29:28-35)

5708.رسولُ اللَّهِ صلى اللَّه عليه وآله : إنّ أخوَفَ ما أخافُ على‏ اُمّتي مِن عَمَلِ قَومِ لُوطٍ .³

5708.The Prophet (SAWA) said, 'The most dreadful thing I fear for my community is the action of the people of Lot.' ⁴

5709.رسولُ اللَّهِ صلى اللَّه عليه وآله : مَن يَعمَلْ مِن اُمّتي عَملَ قَومِ لُوطٍ ثُمّ يَموتُ على‏ ذلكَ فهُو مُؤَجَّلٌ إلى‏ أن يُوضَعَ في لَحدِهِ ، فإذا وُضِعَ فيهِ لَم يَمكُثْ أكثَرَ مِن ثَلاثٍ حتّى‏ تَقذِفَهُ الأرضُ إلى‏ جُملَةِ قَومِ لُوطٍ المُهلَكينَ فيُحشَرَ مَعَهُم .⁵

5709.The Prophet (SAWA) said, 'Whoever of my community performs the acts of the people of Lot and dies in that state, his punishment is delayed until he is put in his grave, and when he is put in it he does not stay more than three days therein until the earth casts him to the perished people of Lot with whom he will be resurrected!' ⁶

5710.الإمامُ عليٌّ عليه السلام : فَرَضَ اللَّهُ الإيمانَ تَطهيراً مِن الشِّركِ ... وتَرْكَ اللِّواطِ تَكثيراً للنَّسلِ .⁷

5710.Imam Ali (AS) said, 'Allah prescribed faith as purification from polytheism...and the abandonment of sodomy to multiply offspring.' ⁸

5711.الإمامُ الصّادقُ عليه السلام : حَرّمَ اللَّهُ على‏ كُلِّ دُبُرٍ مُستَنكَحٍ الجُلوسَ على‏ إستَبرَقِ الجَنّةِ .⁹

5711.Imam al-Sadiq (AS) said, 'Allah has forbidden for every rear end that has been sexually penetrated to sit on the brocade of Heaven.' ¹⁰

5712.الإمامُ الرِّضا عليه السلام : عِلّةُ تَحريمِ الذُّكرانِ للذُّكرانِ والإناثِ للإناثِ ؛ لِما رُكِّبَ في الإناثِ وما طُبِعَ علَيهِ الذُّكرانُ ، ولِما في إتيانِ الذُّكرانِ الذُّكرانَ والإناثِ الإناثَ مِنِ انقِطاعِ النَّسلِ ، وفَسادِ التَّدبيرِ ، وخَرابِ الدُّنيا .¹¹

5712.Imam al-Rida (AS) said, 'The reason for the prohibition of males to males and of females to females is because of what females have been endowed with and the nature of males. Moreover, in males being with males and females being with females, lies the continuity of offspring will cease, corruption of [natural] order, and the destruction of the world.' ¹²