Worst Than Drinking Wine

The guardian scholar Abi Abdillah Mohammad bin Ahmad bin Shahryar Al-Khazen narrated from the scholar Abu Abdillah Mohammad bin Mohammad bin Husain known as ibn Al- Barasi, from the honourable Abu Hashim Mohammad bin Hamza bin Husain bin Mohammad bin Mohammad bin Ibrahim bin Musa bin Jaafar Al-Kadhim, from Abu Abdillah Husain bin Ali bin Husain bin Musa bin Babeweyh, from Abu Jaafar Mohammad bin Husain Al-Nahwy, from Abul Qasem Saad bin Abdullah Al-Ash’ari, from Abdullah bin Ahmad bin T’ayyeb, from Jaafar bin Khalid, from Safwan bin Yahya, from Huthaifa bin Mansour, who said:

I was sitting with Imam Jaafar bin Mohammad (a.s.) when a man entered and said, “May I sacrifice my life for you. I have a brother who loves you and respects you but he drinks wine.”

Imam Al-Sadiq (a.s.) replied:

It is very unfortunate that someone who has our love in his heart commits such a sin but let me tell you about someone who is worse than him: the person who hates us is worse than him.

The lowest of the believers in status will intercede for two hundred people. However, if all of the inhabitants of the seven skies, the seven earths, and the seven seas try to intercede for someone who hates us, their intercession will not be accepted.

This sinner who loves us will not leave this world until he seeks forgiveness or until Allah (s.w.t.)  torments him in his health to remove his sins. So when he dies, he will meet Allah (s.w.t.) being sinless.

Our Shia are on the right path; our Shia are on the straightest path.

My father, Mohammad bin Ali (a.s.), used to often say, “Love those who love the family of the Prophet  (s.a.w.w.) even if they are scavengers, and hate those who hate the family of the Prophet (s.a.w.w.)  even if they are worshippers.”

 (Irshaad Al-Qoloub 256)