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hadith 1487
Hadith #
1487
Book
Mishkāt al-Anwār
Volume
1
Part
Section 6 - On One's Faults, the Heart and the Intellect
Chapter
Chapter 2 - On The Intellect
Source
ʿAlī b. al-Ḥasan al-Ṭabrisī
۞
Imam Sadiq (a.s) has been narrated to have said
“God the Almighty gave the angels intellect and no lust, and gave the animals lust and no intellect, and gave man both lust and intellect. Whoever can use his intellect to overcome his lust is better than the angels, and whoever whose intellect is overwhelmed by lust is worse than animals.”
روي عن الصادق (عليه السلام)
إنه قال: إن الله تعالى ركب العقل في الملائكة بدون الشهوة، وركب الشهوة في البهائم بدون العقل، وركبهما جميعا في بني آدم، فمن غلب عقله على شهوته كان خيرا من الملائكة، ومن غلبت شهوته على عقله كان شرا من البهائم.
Tags Intellect/ReasonAngelsSoul (Nafs)

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