شَكَوْتُ إِلَى أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) الْوَسْوَاسَ فَقَالَ يَا أَبَا مُحَمَّدٍ اذْكُرْ تَقَطُّعَ أَوْصَالِكَ فِي قَبْرِكَ وَ رُجُوعَ أَحْبَابِكَ عَنْكَ إِذَا دَفَنُوكَ فِي حُفْرَتِكَ وَ خُرُوجَ بَنَاتِ الْمَاءِ مِنْ مَنْخِرَيْكَ وَ أَكْلَ الدُّودِ لَحْمَكَ فَإِنَّ ذَلِكَ يُسَلِّي عَنْكَ مَا أَنْتَ فِيهِ قَالَ أَبُو بَصِيرٍ فَوَ اللَّهِ مَا ذَكَرْتُهُ إِلَّا سَلَّى عَنِّي مَا أَنَا فِيهِ مِنْ هَمِّ الدُّنْيَا .
Translation
Ibn Abu Umeyr, from Ali Bin Abu Hamza, from Abu Baseer who said, ‘I complained to Abu Abdullah<sup>asws</sup> of the temptations (in my mind), so he<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘O Abu Muhammad! Remember the breaking of your bones in your grave, and the return of your loves ones from you when they bury you in your pit (grave), and the exit of drops of the water from your nostrils, and the insects eating your flesh. This will help you to overcome temptations’. Abu Baseer said, ‘By Allah<sup>azwj</sup>! I did not remember it except it eased from me what I was in, from the stress of the world’.
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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