Al-Kafi 1621

Translation

Ali Bin Ibrahim, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad Bin Khalid, from Al Hassan Bin Al Husayn, from Muhammad Bin Sinan, from Abu Saeed Al Mukary, from Abu Hamza Al Sumaly, (It has been narrated) from Ali^asws Bin Al-Husayn^asws having said: ‘A man sailed the sea with his family, and it (the ship) broke (capsized) upon them. So none were rescued from the ones who were in the ship except for the wife of the man. So she was saved upon a plank from the planks of the ship until she came to an island from the islands of the sea; and it was so that in that island was a man who was a bandit and he had not left any Prohibition of Allah^azwj except that he had violated it. So he did not know, and the woman was standing by his head. So he raised his head towards her and he said, ‘A human or a Jinn?’ So she said, ‘A human’. So he did not speak to her a word until he sat upon her with a sitting which the man tends to sit upon his wife with. So when he was intending with her, she became restless. So he said to her, ‘What is the matter with you being so restless?’ So she said, ‘I am scared of this’, and she gestured by her hand towards the sky. He said, ‘So have you done anything from this (adultery) before?’ She said, ‘No, by His^azwj Honour’. He said, ‘So you are being scared from Him^azwj by this fright and you have not done anything from this (before), and rather I am coercing you with a coercion. So (now), by Allah^azwj, I am closer with this fright and the fear, and more deserving than you (of being scared)’. He^asws said: ‘So he moved away and without doing anything he returned back to his family, and there was no eagerness for him except for the repentance, and the review (of his sins). Once he was walking (on a path) when he came across a priest walking in the street. The sun was bright upon the two of them, and the priest said to the youth (once the robber), ‘Supplicate to Allah^azwj to Shade us with a cloud, for the sun is too hot upon us’. So the youth said, ‘I do not know of a (single) good deed which is with my Lord^azwj, so it would be too audacious of me to ask Him^azwj for anything’. He said, ‘So I shall supplicate, and you say ‘Ameen’’. He said, ‘Yes’. So the priest came forward supplicating and the youth said ‘Ameen’. And it was so that soon a cloud shaded them. So they both walked under it careful during the day. Then their ways separated into two, and the youth took to one, and the priest took to the other. So the cloud (went) with the youth. So the priest said, ‘You are better than I am. For you it (the supplication) was Answered and it was not Answered for me. So inform me what your story is. So he informed him of the news of the woman. So he said, ‘There has been Forgiveness for you what is past (from the sins) when the fear entered into you, therefore consider how you want to be in the future’’.

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