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بخش ۴ - ۴ سعید بن مسیّب، رحمة اللّه علیه / Section 4 - 4 Sa'id ibn al-Musayyib, May Allah Have Mercy on Him

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و منهم: رئیس علما، و مقتدای فقها، سعید بن مسیب، رحمة الله علیه
عظیم الشأن و رفیع القدر بود و عزیز القوم و جمیل الصبر و وی را مناقب بسیار است در فنون علم از فقه و توحید و حقایق و تفسیر و شعر و لغت و غیر آن و گویند مردی عیارنمای پارساطبع بود، نه پارسانمای عیارطبع؛ و این طریقی ستوده است اندر این قصه و محمود به نزدیک جملهٔ مشایخ، -رضي الله عنهم-.

و از وی روایت آرند گفت: «إرض بالیسیر من الدنیا مع سلامة دینک کما رضی قوم بکثیرها مع ذهاب دینهم.»
راضی گرد به اندکی از دنیا با سلامت دینت؛ چنان که راضی شدند قومی به بسیاری آن و رفتن دین ایشان از ایشان؛ یعنی فقر با سلامت بهتر از غنای با غفلت؛ که فقیر چون اندر دل نگرد اندیشهٔ زیادت نیابد و اندر دست خود نگرد قناعت یابد و غنی اندر دل نگرد اندیشهٔ زیادتی دنیا یابد و اندر دست خود نگرد دنیای پر شبهت بیند. پس رضای دوستان به خداوند بی غفلت، بهتر از رضای غافلان به دنیای پر غرور و آفت و حسرت و ندامت و زلت و معصیت.

پس چون بلا بیاید غافلان گویند: «الحمد لله که بر تن نیامد»، و دوستان گویند: «الحمد لله که بر دین نیامد.» اگر تن اندر بلا بود، چون دل اندر لقا بود، بلا بر تن خوش بود و چون دل اندر غفلت بود، اگرچه تن اندر نعمت بود، آن نعمت نبود، نقمت بود و به حقیقت رضا به قلیل دنیا، کثیر دنیا بود و رضا به کثیر دنیا، قلیل دنیا بود؛ از آن چه قلیل آن، چون کثیر آن است.
و از وی می آید -رضي الله عنه- که اندر مکه نشسته بود، مردی به نزدیک وی آمد و گفت: «مرا خبر ده از حلالی که اندر او حرام نباشد و از حرامی که اندر او حلال نباشد.» وی گفت، -رضي الله عنه-: «ذکر الله حلال لیس فیه حرام و ذکر غیره حرام لیس فیه حلال.» یاد کرد حق تعالی حلالی است که در وی هیچ حرام نیست و یاد کرد دیگران غیر حلال است؛ از آن که اندر ذکر وی نجات است و در ذکر غیر وی هلاک. و الله اعلم بالصواب.

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And among them: the chief of the scholars, the exemplar of the jurists, Sa'id ibn al-Musayyib, may Allah have mercy on him. He was of great rank and lofty station, dear to his people, and beautiful in patience. He has many virtues in the various branches of knowledge: in jurisprudence, in the doctrine of divine unity, in the truths (of mysticism), in Qur'anic exegesis, in poetry, in philology, and other fields. They say he was a man who appeared crafty yet was pious by nature, not one who appeared pious yet was crafty by nature; and this is a praiseworthy way in this matter, and commended in the view of all the shaykhs, may Allah be pleased with them. And they relate from him that he said: 'Be content with little of this world along with the soundness of your religion, just as a people were content with much of it along with the loss of their religion.' Be content with a little of this world together with the soundness of your religion, just as a people were content with much of it though their religion departed from them; that is, poverty with soundness is better than wealth with heedlessness. For when the poor man looks into his heart he finds no thought of increase, and when he looks at his hand he finds contentment; whereas the rich man, when he looks into his heart, finds the thought of increasing worldly goods, and when he looks at his hand he sees a world full of doubt. Thus the contentment of the friends (of God) with the Lord, free of heedlessness, is better than the contentment of the heedless with a world full of delusion, affliction, regret, remorse, error, and disobedience. So when affliction comes, the heedless say: 'Praise be to God that it did not come upon the body,' while the friends say: 'Praise be to God that it did not come upon the religion.' If the body be in affliction while the heart is in the vision (of God), affliction upon the body is sweet; and if the heart be in heedlessness, though the body be in comfort, that comfort is no comfort but a punishment. In truth, contentment with little of this world is the much of this world, and contentment with much of this world is the little of this world; because its little is as its much. And it is related from him, may Allah be pleased with him, that he was seated in Mecca when a man came to him and said: 'Inform me of something lawful in which there is nothing unlawful, and of something unlawful in which there is nothing lawful.' He said, may Allah be pleased with him: 'The remembrance of God is a lawful thing in which there is nothing unlawful, and the remembrance of other than Him is unlawful in which there is nothing lawful.' The remembrance of God Most High is a lawful thing in which there is nothing unlawful, and the remembrance of others than Him is not lawful; for in His remembrance is salvation, and in the remembrance of other than Him is perdition. And God knows best what is right.

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