إِنَّ الْقُلُوبَ أَرْبَعَةٌ قَلْبٌ فِيهِ نِفَاقٌ وَ إِيمَانٌ وَ قَلْبٌ مَنْكُوسٌ وَ قَلْبٌ مَطْبُوعٌ وَ قَلْبٌ أَزْهَرُ أَجْرَدُ فَقُلْتُ مَا الْأَزْهَرُ قَالَ فِيهِ كَهَيْئَةِ السِّرَاجِ فَأَمَّا الْمَطْبُوعُ فَقَلْبُ الْمُنَافِقِ وَ أَمَّا الْأَزْهَرُ فَقَلْبُ الْمُؤْمِنِ إِنْ أَعْطَاهُ شَكَرَ وَ إِنِ ابْتَلَاهُ صَبَرَ وَ أَمَّا الْمَنْكُوسُ فَقَلْبُ الْمُشْرِكِ ثُمَّ قَرَأَ هَذِهِ الْآيَةَ أَ فَمَنْ يَمْشِي مُكِبًّا عَلى وَجْهِهِ أَهْدى أَمَّنْ يَمْشِي سَوِيًّا عَلى صِراطٍ مُسْتَقِيمٍ فَأَمَّا الْقَلْبُ الَّذِي فِيهِ إِيمَانٌ وَ نِفَاقٌ فَهُمْ قَوْمٌ كَانُوا بِالطَّائِفِ فَإِنْ أَدْرَكَ أَحَدَهُمْ أَجَلُهُ عَلَى نِفَاقِهِ هَلَكَ وَ إِنْ أَدْرَكَهُ عَلَى إِيمَانِهِ نَجَا .
Translation
A number of our companions, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad Bin Khalid, from his father, from Haroun Bin Al Jahm, from Al Mufazzal, from Sa’ad, (It has been narrated) from Abu Ja’far<sup>asws</sup> having said: ‘The قُلُوبَ (<span class="iTxt">Qalub</span>) are three (types) – a الْقَلْبُ (<span class="iTxt">Qalb</span>) wherein is hypocrisy and <span class="iTxt">Emān</span>, and an inverted الْقَلْبُ (<span class="iTxt">Qalb</span>), and an imprinted الْقَلْبُ (<span class="iTxt">Qalb</span>), and a shining bare الْقَلْبُ’ (<span class="iTxt">Qalb</span>). So I said, ‘What is the shining <span style="text-decoration: underline">(</span><span style="font-style: italic; text-decoration: underline">Qalb</span><span style="text-decoration: underline">)?</span>’ He<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘Wherein is like a physical lamp; as for the imprinted one, it is the الْقَلْبُ of the hypocrisy, and as for the shining one, it is the الْقَلْبُ of the <span class="iTxt">Momin</span> if He<sup>azwj</sup> Gives him, he is grateful, and if He<sup>azwj</sup> Tries him, he is patient; and as for the inverted one, it is the الْقَلْبُ of the <span class="iTxt">Mushrik</span> (Polytheist)’. Then he<sup>asws</sup> recited this Verse <span class="ibTxt"><a href="/#/books/quran:67#h22"><a href="/books/quran:67#h22">[67:22]</a></a> Is the one who goes prone upon his face better guided or he who walks upright upon a Straight Path?</span> As for the الْقَلْبُ wherein is <span class="iTxt">Emān</span> and hypocrisy, so they were a people who were in Al-Ta’if. So if death seized one of them upon his hypocrisy, he perished, but if it (death) approached him upon his <span class="iTxt">Emān</span>, attained salvation’.
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