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is similar to a building of which one portion strengthens another portion. (Ṣaḥīḥ Bukhārī, vol. 1, pp. 181, Ḥadīš 481)
صَلُّوۡا عَلَى الۡحَبِيۡب صَلَّى اللّٰهُ تَعَالٰى عَلٰى مُحَمَّد
When Sayyidunā Imām Ja’far Ṣādiq عَـلَيْهِ
رَحْـمَةُ الـلّٰـهِ الۡـخَالِـق preferred seclusion, i.e.,
away from society, Sayyidunā Sufyān Šaurī عَـلَيْهِ رَحْـمَةُ الـلّٰـهِ الۡـقَوِی came to him and said, ‘Due to your seclusion,
people have been deprived of your blessings!’
Sayyidunā Imām Ja’far Ṣādiq عَـلَيْهِ رَحْـمَةُ الـلّٰـهِ الۡـخَالِـق replied to him
in the following two couplets:
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وَالنَّاسُ بَيۡنَ
مُخَايِلٍ وَّ مَآرِب |
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ذَهَبَ الۡوَفَاءُ
ذِهَابَ اَمۡسِ الذَّاهِبِ |
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وَ قُلُوبُهُمۡ
مَحۡشُوَّةٌ بِعَقَارِب |
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يُفۡشُوۡنَ
بَيۡنَهُمُ الۡمَوَدَّةَ وَالۡوَفَا |
i.e., Loyalty has gone like a day becomes yesterday. And people are left being lost in their thoughts and needs. Typically people tend to be expressing their love and loyalty with one another as usual but their hearts are fully infested with the scorpions of malice and hatred towards one another! (Tażkira-tul-Awliyā, pp. 22)
Shaykh-e-Ṭarīqat, Amīr-e-Aĥl-e-Sunnat دَامَـتْ بَـرَكَـاتُـهُـمُ الْـعَـالِـيَـه writes after this narration: Dear Islamic brothers! Did you see how Sayyidunā Imām Ja’far Ṣādiq عَـلَيْهِ رَحْـمَةُ الـلّٰـهِ الۡـخَالِـق preferred solitude after having had enough of people’s hypocrisy! This problem had started to creep in those pure times too; while nowadays who is to be blamed for people’s pathetic condition. Alas! Majority of people are in an awful state. When they meet, they treat one another with great respect; inquire about each other’s wellbeing and provide each other with warm hospitality – sometimes they make them happy with cold
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