سُئِلَ أَبُو عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) عَنِ الِاسْتِدْرَاجِ فَقَالَ هُوَ الْعَبْدُ يُذْنِبُ الذَّنْبَ فَيُمْلَى لَهُ وَ تُجَدَّدُ لَهُ عِنْدَهَا النِّعَمُ فَتُلْهِيهِ عَنِ الِاسْتِغْفَارِ مِنَ الذُّنُوبِ فَهُوَ مُسْتَدْرَجٌ مِنْ حَيْثُ لَا يَعْلَمُ .
Translation
A number of our companions, from Sahl Bin Ziya and Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father, altogether from Ibn Mahboub, from Ibn Ra’ib, from one of his companions who said, ‘Abu Abdullah<sup>asws</sup> was asked about the gradual allurement, so he<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘He is the servant who commits the sin, so he is Respited for it and the Bounty is renewed for him during it, and it distracts him from the seeking of Forgiveness from the sins. So this is the gradual allurement from where he does not know’.
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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