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make my son like this man.” The child left the breast, turned toward him, and looked at him, saying, “O Allah, do not make me like him.” Then he turned back to his mother’s breast and began nursing again. The narrator said: It is as though I can see the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, describing the child’s nursing by placing his index finger in his mouth and sucking it.

He said: They then passed by a slave girl whom they were beating, saying, “You have committed fornication and stolen!” while she said, “Allah is sufficient for me, and He is the best Disposer of affairs.” His mother said, “O Allah, do not make my son like her.” He stopped nursing, looked at her, and said, “O Allah, make me like her.” At that point, they spoke further. She said, “A man of fine appearance passed by, and I said, ‘O Allah, make my son like him,’ but you said, ‘O Allah, do not make me like him.’ Then they passed by this slave girl, beating her and saying, ‘You have committed fornication and stolen!’ So I said, ‘O Allah, do not make my son like her,’ but you said, ‘O Allah, make me like her.’”

He replied, “That man was a tyrant, so I said, ‘O Allah, do not make me like him.’ As for this girl, they say to her, ‘You have committed fornication,’ though she has not committed fornication, and, ‘You have stolen,’ though she has not stolen. Therefore, I said, ‘O Allah, make me like her.’” (1)

“O you who believe, fear Allah, and let every soul look to what it has sent ahead for tomorrow. And fear Allah; surely Allah is fully aware of what you do. (18) And do not be like those who forgot Allah, so He made them forget themselves. Those are the defiantly disobedient. (19) The people of the Fire and the people of Paradise are not equal. It is the people of Paradise who are the successful. (20) Had We sent down this Quran upon a mountain, you would have seen it humbled and splitting apart from fear of Allah. Such are the parables We set forth for people, so that they may reflect. (21)”

Allah, exalted is He, says: “O you who believe, fear Allah, and let every soul look to what it has sent ahead for tomorrow”—meaning, for the Day of Resurrection; that is, let each of you consider what he has sent forth for himself: a righteous deed that will save him, or an evil deed that will destroy him. “And fear Allah; surely Allah is fully aware of what you do.” “And do not be like those who forgot Allah”—they abandoned Allah’s command—“so He made them forget themselves,” [that is, their own interests], (2) until they sent no good ahead for themselves. “Those are the defiantly disobedient.”

“The people of the Fire and the people of Paradise are not equal. It is the people of Paradise who are the successful.”

(1) Narrated by Muslim in Al-Birr wa al-Silah wa al-Adab (Righteousness, Maintaining Kinship Ties, and Etiquette), chapter: “Giving dutifulness to one’s parents precedence over voluntary prayer and other acts,” no. 2550, 4:1976-1978. It was also narrated in abbreviated form by al-Bukhari in Ahadith al-Anbiya (Accounts of the Prophets), chapter: “The saying of Allah Most High: ‘And mention Mary in the Book, when she withdrew from her family’,” 6:476. (2) The text enclosed in parentheses is omitted from manuscript “A”.

اجْعَلِ ابْنِي مِثْلَ هَذَا، فَتَرَكَ الثَّدْيَ وَأَقْبَلَ عَلَيْهِ وَنَظَرَ إِلَيْهِ، فَقَالَ: اللَّهُمَّ لَا تَجْعَلْنِي مِثْلَهُ. ثُمَّ أَقْبَلَ عَلَى ثَدْيِهِ فَجَعَلَ يَرْضَعُ. قَالَ: فَكَأَنِّي أَنْظُرُ إِلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ وَهُوَ يَحْكِي ارْتِضَاعَهُ بِأُصْبُعِهِ السَّبَّابَةِ فِي فَمِهِ، فَجَعَلَ يَمُصُّهَا. قَالَ: وَمَرُّوا بِجَارِيَةٍ وَهُمْ يَضْرِبُونَهَا وَيَقُولُونَ: زَنَيْتِ وَسَرَقْتِ، وَهِيَ تَقُولُ: حَسْبِي اللَّهُ وَنِعْمَ الْوَكِيلُ فَقَالَتْ أُمُّهُ: اللَّهُمَّ لَا تَجْعَلِ ابْنِي مِثْلَهَا، فَتَرَكَ الرَّضَاعَ وَنَظَرَ إِلَيْهَا فَقَالَ: اللَّهُمَّ اجْعَلْنِي مِثْلَهَا، فَهُنَاكَ تَرَاجَعَا الْحَدِيثَ، فَقَالَتْ: مَرَّ رَجُلٌ حَسَنُ الْهَيْئَةِ فَقُلْتُ: اللَّهُمَّ اجْعَلِ ابْنِي مِثْلَهُ، فَقُلْتَ: اللَّهُمَّ لَا تَجْعَلْنِي مِثْلَهُ، وَمَرُّوا بِهَذِهِ الْأَمَةِ وَهُمْ يَضْرِبُونَهَا وَيَقُولُونَ زَنَيْتِ وَسَرَقْتِ، فَقُلْتُ: اللَّهُمَّ لَا تَجْعَلِ ابْنِي مِثْلَهَا فَقُلْتَ: اللَّهُمَّ اجْعَلْنِي مِثْلَهَا، قَالَ: إِنَّ ذَاكَ الرَّجُلَ كَانَ جَبَّارًا فَقُلْتُ اللَّهُمَّ لَا تَجْعَلْنِي مِثْلَهُ، وَإِنَّ هَذِهِ يَقُولُونَ لَهَا: زَنَيْتِ، وَلَمْ تَزِنِ، وَسَرَقْتِ، وَلَمْ تَسْرِقْ، فَقُلْتُ: اللَّهُمَّ اجْعَلْنِي مِثْلَهَا" (١) . ﴿يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا اتَّقُوا اللَّهَ وَلْتَنْظُرْ نَفْسٌ مَا قَدَّمَتْ لِغَدٍ وَاتَّقُوا اللَّهَ إِنَّ اللَّهَ خَبِيرٌ بِمَا تَعْمَلُونَ (١٨) وَلَا تَكُونُوا كَالَّذِينَ نَسُوا اللَّهَ فَأَنْسَاهُمْ أَنْفُسَهُمْ أُولَئِكَ هُمُ الْفَاسِقُونَ (١٩) لَا يَسْتَوِي أَصْحَابُ النَّارِ وَأَصْحَابُ الْجَنَّةِ أَصْحَابُ الْجَنَّةِ هُمُ الْفَائِزُونَ (٢٠) لَوْ أَنْزَلْنَا هَذَا الْقُرْآنَ عَلَى جَبَلٍ لَرَأَيْتَهُ خَاشِعًا مُتَصَدِّعًا مِنْ خَشْيَةِ اللَّهِ وَتِلْكَ الْأَمْثَالُ نَضْرِبُهَا لِلنَّاسِ لَعَلَّهُمْ يَتَفَكَّرُونَ (٢١) ﴾ قَوْلُهُ ﷿ ﴿يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا اتَّقُوا اللَّهَ وَلْتَنْظُرْ نَفْسٌ مَا قَدَّمَتْ لِغَدٍ﴾ يَعْنِي لِيَوْمِ الْقِيَامَةِ، أَيْ: لِيَنْظُرْ أَحَدُكُمْ أَيَّ شَيْءٍ قَدَّمَ لِنَفْسِهِ، عَمَلًا صَالِحًا يُنْجِيهِ أَمْ سَيِّئًا يُوبِقُهُ؟ ﴿وَاتَّقُوا اللَّهَ إِنَّ اللَّهَ خَبِيرٌ بِمَا تَعْمَلُونَ﴾ ﴿وَلَا تَكُونُوا كَالَّذِينَ نَسُوا اللَّهَ﴾ تَرَكُوا أَمْرَ اللَّهِ ﴿فَأَنْسَاهُمْ أَنْفُسَهُمْ﴾ [أَيْ حُظُوظَ أَنْفُسِهِمْ] (٢) حَتَّى لَمْ يُقَدِّمُوا لَهَا خَيْرًا ﴿أُولَئِكَ هُمُ الْفَاسِقُونَ﴾ ﴿لَا يَسْتَوِي أَصْحَابُ النَّارِ وَأَصْحَابُ الْجَنَّةِ أَصْحَابُ الْجَنَّةِ هُمُ الْفَائِزُونَ﴾ .

(١) أخرجه مسلم في البر والصلة والآداب، باب تقديم بر الوالدين على التطوع بالصلاة وغيرها، برقم: (٢٥٥٠) : ٤ / ١٩٧٦ - ١٩٧٨ وأخرجه البخاري مختصرا في أحاديث الأنبياء، باب قول الله تعالى: (واذكر في الكتاب مريم إذ انتبذت من أهلها) : ٦ / ٤٧٦. (٢) ما بين القوسين ساقط من "أ".