قَالَ أَبُو عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) إِنَّمَا خُلِّدَ أَهْلُ النَّارِ فِي النَّارِ لِأَنَّ نِيَّاتِهِمْ كَانَتْ فِي الدُّنْيَا أَنْ لَوْ خُلِّدُوا فِيهَا أَنْ يَعْصُوا اللَّهَ أَبَداً وَ إِنَّمَا خُلِّدَ أَهْلُ الْجَنَّةِ فِي الْجَنَّةِ لِأَنَّ نِيَّاتِهِمْ كَانَتْ فِي الدُّنْيَا أَنْ لَوْ بَقُوا فِيهَا أَنْ يُطِيعُوا اللَّهَ أَبَداً فَبِالنِّيَّاتِ خُلِّدَ هَؤُلَاءِ وَ هَؤُلَاءِ ثُمَّ تَلَا قَوْلَهُ تَعَالَى قُلْ كُلٌّ يَعْمَلُ عَلى شاكِلَتِهِ قَالَ عَلَى نِيَّتِهِ .
Translation
Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father, from Al Qasim Bin Muhammad, from Al Minqary, from Ahmad Bin Yunus, from Abu Hashim who said, ‘Abu Abdullah<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘But rather, the inhabitants of the Fire would be in the Fire eternally because their intentions in world was such that if they had eternally been in it, they would have disobeyed Allah<sup>azwj</sup> forever; and rather the inhabitants of the Paradise would be in the Paradises eternally because their intentions in the world were such that if they had remained in it (eternally), they would have obeyed Allah<sup>azwj</sup> forever. Thus, the eternality is by the intentions of these ones and those ones’. Then he<sup>asws</sup> recited the Words of the Exalted <span class="ibTxt"><a href="/#/books/quran:17#h84"><a href="/books/quran:17#h84">[17:84]</a></a> Everyone acts according to his own disposition</span>. He<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘Upon his intention’.
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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