Chapter 8 - On Obeying or Disobeying God

Imam Sadiq (a.s) said: “The worst of you are those who force their mastery over the people. Those around whom the people gather, and love to have total control over you, who make themselves famous, and become famous, or you put trust in, have to be liars or weak in making a decision.”

“Seeing that they had been summoned aforetime to bow in adoration while they were whole (and had refused).” [The Holy Quran: Qalam 68:43] They were able to obey God, and abandon what God Had forbidden, but they were tested this way and did not do so.”

Imam Sadiq (a.s) said: “One cannot change what God has decreed and forbidden, unless in what there is a divine test and destiny.”