Imam Al-Sadiq

an old (man)? We ask Allah to grant you and us a good deed through obeying, return to His
mercy, refraining from disobeying Him, and through Him."(332)
Also consider carefully his words on life in this world and its owners: "How many a seeker of
life in this world, but does not obtain it, and obtainer of it has left it. So, its seeking should not
divert you from your act. Request it from its Granter and its Possessor. And how many a
cleaver to the life in this world, it knocks him down, what he has obtained of it has diverted
him from seeking his life in the hereafter till he finished his lifetime and his death came to
him,"(333)
How truthful his (al- Sadiq) analysis is on life in this world and the kinds of people in it:
"What is the life in this world? And what could it be? Is life in this world nothing but a meal
you have eaten it? or a garment you have worn? Or an animal you have ridden? The believers
have no confidence in the life in this world and do not feel safe from the coming of the
hereafter. The life in this world is transient and the life in the hereafter is permanent. The
people in this world are heedless. The devotees are lighter than the people of this world in
provision and more than them in help. When you forget, they (the devotees) remind you.
When they remind you, they teach you. Then regard the life in this world as a house you had
lived in it then you have left it or as perfection you obtained in your sleeping, but there was
nothing of it in your hand when you get up. How many a cleaver to a matter became unhappy
when it came to him. And how many a leaver to a matter became happy when it came to
him."(334)
Also pay attention to the following words of al- Sadiq, peace be on him: "I have regarded the
rank of the life in this world as the rank of the dead animal. When I am forced to eat of it I
eat. Indeed, Allah, the Blessed and Exalted, knows what the servants do and where they will
return to, so He (Allah) is patient toward their evil deeds because of his previous knowledge
of them. Then the good request from him who is not afraid of escape should not deceive you."
Then he recited the following Words of Allah, the Exalted: "(As for) that future abode, We
assign it to those who have no desire to exalt themselves in the earth nor to make mischief
and the good end is for those who guard (against evil)."(335) Then he (al- Sadiq) began
weeping and saying: "By Allah, the hopes have disappeared with this verse." Then he, peace
be on him, said: "By Allah, the obedients who do not commit even the little harm have
succeeded, to fear Allah is enough knowledge and self- conceit is enough ignorance."(336)
I (the author) say: When al- Sadiq, peace be on him, said that the hopes had disappeared, he
meant the hopes of the people of the evil deeds, for Allah is patient toward them so that they
think that they will be safe from the torture in the hereafter. However, the verse indicates that
the future abode is assigned to those who have no desire to exalt themselves in the earth nor
to make mischief Accordingly, no one except them has a share in the hereafter.
A man came to al- Sadiq, peace be on him, and asked him for a need. He, peace be on him,