Al-Kafi 12253

Translation

Abu Ali Al Ashary, from one of our companions and Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father, altogether, from Al Hassan Bin Ali Bin Abu Hamza, from his father, from Ali Bin Yaqteen who said, ‘Al-Mahdy (Al-Mansour the caliph) asked Abu Al-Hassan^asws about the wine, ‘Is it a Prohibition in the Book of Allah^azwj Mighty and Majestic, as the people, rather, are recognising the prevention from it and are not understanding the Prohibition of it’. So Abu Al-Hassan^asws said to him: ‘But it is a Prohibition in the Book of Allah^azwj Mighty and Majestic, O commander of the faithful!’ So he said to him^asws, ‘Which place is it Prohibited in the Book of Allah^azwj, Majestic is His^azwj Name, O Abu Al Hassan^asws?’ So he^asws said: ‘The Words of Allah^azwj Mighty and Majestic <span class="ibTxt"><a href="/#/books/quran:7#h33"><a href="/books/quran:7#h33">[7:33]</a></a> Say: But rather, My Lord has only Prohibited the immoralities, whatever is apparent from it as well as those that are concealed, and sin and rebellion without right</span>. So as for His^azwj Words ‘<span class="ibTxt">whatever is apparent from it</span>’ it Means the adultery committed openly, and the establishment of the flags which the immoral were raising for the immoralities during the Pre-Islamic period’. And as for the Words of the Mighty and Majestic, <span class="ibTxt">as well as those that are concealed</span>, it Means what the forefathers had married, because the people, before the Sending of the Prophet^saww, when the man had a wife and he died from her, the son used to marry her from after him, when she did not happen to be his mother. So Allah^azwj Mighty and Majestic Prohibited that. And as for <span class="ibTxt">and sin</span>, so there are the wines exactly, and Allah^azwj Mighty and Majestic had Said in another place <span class="ibTxt"><a href="/#/books/quran:2#h219"><a href="/books/quran:2#h219">[2:219]</a></a> They ask you about the wine and the gambling. Say: In both of them there is a great sin and profit for the people</span>. So as for the sin in the Book of Allah^azwj, so it is the wine and the gambling, and the sins of these two is greater, just as Allah^azwj the High has Said’. He (the narrator) said, ‘So Al-Mahdy said, ‘O Ali Bin Yaqteen! By Allah^azwj, these are Hashimite <span class="iTxt">Fatwas</span>’. He (the narrator) said, ‘I said to him, ‘You speak the truth, by Allah^azwj, O commander of the faithful! The Praise is for Allah^azwj Whom did not Take away this Knowledge from you, the People^asws of the Household’. He (the narrator) said, ‘So, by Allah^azwj, Al-Mahdy could not be patient and he said to me, ‘You speak the truth, of ‘Rafizy’ (rejector)’.

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