Pearl of Wisdom
when visiting one of his sick companions, asked, 'How are you?' He replied, 'I have met death after you!' referring to the pain he had endured from his intense sickness', so he said, 'How did you find it?' He said, 'Very painful.' He (AS) said, 'You have not met it, you have only met what is warning you of it and it is introducing you to some of its states...'
Imam Ali ibn Musa al-Ridha [as] Ma'ani al-Akhbar, p. 289, no. 7
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The person who has a sincere intention is the one who has a sound heart; because a sound heart, free from thoughts about forbidden things, comes from making your intention purely for Allah in all matters.
The day on which neither property will avail, nor sons, except him who comes to Allah with a heart free [from evil]. (26:88-9)
The Holy Prophet said, 'The intention of the believer is better than his action,' and also, 'Actions are by intentions, and every man will obtain what he had intended.' The slave of Allah must therefore have sincere intention in every moment of action and stillness because then he will not be heedless. Those who are heedless have been censured by Allah:
They are nothing but as cattle; nay, they are straying farther off from the path. (25:44)
These are the heedless ones. (7:179)
Intention appears from the heart, according to the purity of knowledge. It varies as belief varies, at different moments in its strength and weakness. The selfishness and passion of those with sincere intention is subjugated to the power of the glorification of Allah and modesty before Him. He is by his nature, his appetites and his own desires, in a state of discomfort, and yet people find ease at his hand.
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