Ibrahim ibn Adham reported: We were passing through some cities and I saw two people among the ascetics on a journey. One of them said to the other, “O brother, what do the people who love Allah inherit from their beloved?” The other said, “They inherit insight from the light of Allah the Exalted and compassion for those who disobey Allah.” I said, “How can he have compassion for people who contradict their beloved?” He looked to me and said, “They abhor their sinful deeds and have compassion for them that by their admonition they might leave their deeds, and they feel sympathy that their bodies might be burned in Hellfire. The believer is not truly a believer until he is pleased for people to have what he is pleased for himself.” Then they left and I never saw them again.

Source: Hilyat al-Awliyā 11441

عن إبراهيم بن أدهم كُنْتُ مَارًّا فِي بَعْضِ الْمُدُنِ فَرَأَيْتُ نَفْسَيْنِ مِنَ الزُّهَادِ وَالسَّيَّاحِينَ فِي الأَرْضِ فَقَالَ أَحَدُهُمَا لِلآخَرِ يَا أَخِي مَا وَرِثَ أَهْلُ الْمَحَبَّةِ مِنْ مَحْبُوبِهِمْ فَأَجَابَهُ الآخَرُ وَرِثُوا النَّظَرَ بِنُورِ اللَّهِ تَعَالَى وَالتَّعَطُّفَ عَلَى أَهْلِ مَعَاصِي اللَّهِ قَالَ فَقُلْتُ لَهُ كَيْفَ يَعْطِفُ عَلَى قَوْمٍ قَدْ خَالِفُوا مَحْبُوبَهُمْ فَنَظَرَ إِلَيَّ ثُمَّ قَالَ مَقَتَ أَعْمَالَهُمْ وَعَطَفَ عَلَيْهِمْ لِيَرُدَّهُمْ بِالْمَوَاعِظِ عَنْ فِعَالِهِمْ وَأَشْفَقَ عَلَى أَبْدَانِهِمْ مِنَ النَّارِ لا يَكُونُ الْمُؤْمِنُ مُؤْمِنًا حَقًّا حَتَّى يَرْضَى لِلنَّاسِ مَا يَرْضَى لِنَفْسِهِ ثُمَّ غَابُوا فَلَمْ أَرَهُمْ

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