قُلْتُ لِأَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) إِنَّنِي آكُلُ الطَّعَامَ الطَّيِّبَ وَ أَشَمُّ الرِّيحَ الطَّيِّبَةَ وَ أَرْكَبُ الدَّابَّةَ الْفَارِهَةَ وَ يَتْبَعُنِي الْغُلَامُ فَتَرَى فِي هَذَا شَيْئاً مِنَ التَّجَبُّرِ فَلَا أَفْعَلَهُ فَأَطْرَقَ أَبُو عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) ثُمَّ قَالَ إِنَّمَا الْجَبَّارُ الْمَلْعُونُ مَنْ غَمَصَ النَّاسَ وَ جَهِلَ الْحَقَّ قَالَ عُمَرُ فَقُلْتُ أَمَّا الْحَقُّ فَلَا أَجْهَلُهُ وَ الْغَمْصُ لَا أَدْرِي مَا هُوَ قَالَ مَنْ حَقَّرَ النَّاسَ وَ تَجَبَّرَ عَلَيْهِمْ فَذَلِكَ الْجَبَّارُ .
Translation
From, from Yaqoub Bin Yazeed, from Muhammad Bin Umr Bin Yazeed, from his father who said, ‘I said to Abu Abdullah<sup>asws</sup>, ‘I eat the good food, and smell the good perfume, and ride the luxurious animals, and the slaves follow behind me. So if you<sup>asws</sup> were to view anything from the tyranny in this, then I will not do it’. So Abu Abdullah<sup>asws</sup> remained (silent for a while), then said: ‘But rather, the tyrant is the accursed, the one who belittles the people and ignores the Truth’. Umar (the narrator) said, ‘So I said, ‘As for the Truth, so I do not ignore it, and the belittling, I do not know what it is’. He<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘The one who considers the people as insignificant and is tyrannous upon them, so that is the tyrant’.
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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