كُنْتُ عِنْدَ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) فَقَالَ لَهُ رَجُلٌ بِأَبِي أَنْتَ وَ أُمِّي إِنَّنِي أَدْخُلُ كَنِيفاً لِي وَ لِي جِيرَانٌ عِنْدَهُمْ جَوَارٍ يَتَغَنَّيْنَ وَ يَضْرِبْنَ بِالْعُودِ فَرُبَّمَا أَطَلْتُ الْجُلُوسَ اسْتِمَاعاً مِنِّي لَهُنَّ فَقَالَ لَا تَفْعَلْ فَقَالَ الرَّجُلُ وَ اللَّهِ مَا آتِيهِنَّ إِنَّمَا هُوَ سَمَاعٌ أَسْمَعُهُ بِأُذُنِي فَقَالَ لِلَّهِ أَنْتَ أَ مَا سَمِعْتَ اللَّهَ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ يَقُولُ إِنَّ السَّمْعَ وَ الْبَصَرَ وَ الْفُؤادَ كُلُّ أُولئِكَ كانَ عَنْهُ مَسْؤُلًا فَقَالَ بَلَى وَ اللَّهِ لَكَأَنِّي لَمْ أَسْمَعْ بِهَذِهِ الْآيَةِ مِنْ كِتَابِ اللَّهِ مِنْ أَعْجَمِيٍّ وَ لَا عَرَبِيٍّ لَا جَرَمَ أَنَّنِي لَا أَعُودُ إِنْ شَاءَ اللَّهُ وَ أَنِّي أَسْتَغْفِرُ اللَّهَ فَقَالَ لَهُ قُمْ فَاغْتَسِلْ وَ سَلْ مَا بَدَا لَكَ فَإِنَّكَ كُنْتَ مُقِيماً عَلَى أَمْرٍ عَظِيمٍ مَا كَانَ أَسْوَأَ حَالَكَ لَوْ مِتَّ عَلَى ذَلِكَ احْمَدِ اللَّهَ وَ سَلْهُ التَّوْبَةَ مِنْ كُلِّ مَا يَكْرَهُ فَإِنَّهُ لَا يَكْرَهُ إِلَّا كُلَّ قَبِيحٍ وَ الْقَبِيحَ دَعْهُ لِأَهْلِهِ فَإِنَّ لِكُلٍّ أَهْلًا .
Translation
Ali Bin Ibrahim, from Haroun Bin Muslim, from Mas’ada Bin Ziyad who said, ‘I was in the presence of Abu Abdullah<sup>asws</sup>, so a man said to him<sup>asws</sup>, ‘May my father and my mother be sacrificed for you<sup>asws</sup>! I entered a toilet of mine and for me is a neighbour with whom are slave girls who are singing and striking with the sticks. So Sometimes I prolong my sitting in order to listen to them’. So he<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘Do not do it’. So the man said, ‘By Allah<sup>azwj</sup>! I do not go to them, but rather it is a sound which I hear with my ears’. So he<sup>asws</sup> said; ‘For the Sake of Allah<sup>azwj</sup>! You, have you not heard Allah<sup>azwj</sup> Mighty and Majestic Saying <span class="ibTxt"><a href="/#/books/quran:17#h36"><a href="/books/quran:17#h36">[17:36]</a></a> surely the hearing and the sight and the heart, all of these, shall be questioned about</span>?’ So he said, ‘Yes, by Allah<sup>azwj</sup>! But, it is as if I never heard this verse from the Book of Allah<sup>azwj</sup>, from neither non-Arabs, nor Arabs. I would not be repeating it, Allah<sup>azwj</sup> Willing and I seek Forgiveness of Allah<sup>azwj</sup>’. So he<sup>asws</sup> said to him: ‘Arise and wash, and ask whatever comes to you, for you are standing upon a great matter. How evil would your situation had been had you died upon that. Praise Allah<sup>azwj</sup> and ask Him<sup>asws</sup> for the repentance from everything which He<sup>azwj</sup> Dislikes, for He<sup>azwj</sup> does not Dislike except for every ugliness, and as for the ugliness, so leave it for its deserving ones, for everything there are deserving ones’.
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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