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بَعضُ أصحابِنا رَفَعَهُ إلَى الإمامِ الصّادقِ عليه السلام : قلتُ لهُ : مَا العقلُ؟ قالَ : ما عُبِدَ بِهِ الرَّحمنُ وَ اكتُسِبَ بِهِ الجِنانُ . قالَ : قُلتُ : فَالّذي كانَ في مُعاوِيَةَ ؟ فقالَ : تِلكَ النَّكراءُ ، تِلكَ الشَّيطَنَةُ ، و هِيَ شَبيهَةٌ بِالعَقلِ و لَيسَت بِالعَقلِ .

Imam al-Sadiq (AS) was asked what the intellect was, to which he replied, ‘It is that with which The Beneficent God is worshipped and with which Paradise is attained.’ So the man asked, ‘So what about that which Muawiya possessed?’ He replied, ‘That is a vicious thing, that is devilry, and resembles intellect, though it is not intellect.’
Source: al-Kāfī Vol1 P11
ID: 27242

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title
al-Kāfī
author
Abū Jaʿfar, Muḥammad b. Yaʿqūb b. Isḥāq al-Kulaynī Al-Rāzī (Arabic: ابوجعفر، محمّد بن یعقوب بن اسحاق الرازی) (c. 255/868-9 - 329/941) was among the greatest Shi'a hadith scholars and the author of al-Kafi, the most authentic Shi'a hadith collection and one the Four Books. He was born after the martyrdom of Imam al-'Askari (a), at the time of Imam al-Mahdi (a) and met some hadith transmitters who directly had heard hadiths from Imam al-Hadi (a) and Imam al-'Askari (a). It is said that al-Kulayni was very accurate in transmitting hadiths. Ibn Qulawayh, Muhammad b. Ali Majilawayh al-Qummi, Ahmad b. Muhammad al-Zurari were among his students.
year
1386
publisher
Dar al-Hadith

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