(184) It is related
by Abu Zarr Ghifari that the Apostle of God said: “The bondsman
who practises Zuhd, God,, surely, will cause wisdom to grow in his heart
and to flow, also, from his tongue, and He will show him clearly the
ills and evils of the world, and, then, their treatment, and make him
reach Heaven by taking him safely out of the world.”
-Baihaqi
Commentary.-From the preceding Tradition we learnt that God would communicate
wisdom to the bondsman who followed the path of Zuhd. In the above saying
the same thing has been mentioned more explicitly. What has been said
in it after the assurance that “God will cause wisdom to grow
in his heart” is only in the nature of an elucidation.
It shows that the first reward a person who practises asceticism gets
directly, in this world, is that the seed of wisdom and awareness is
sown in his heart, and, then, as a result of it, wisdom begins to flow
from his tongue and the ailments of the world are revealed to him distinctly,
along with the ways of overcoming them. The other extraordinary recompense
is that God picks him up from the world with his faith and piety unharmed
and takes him to Paradise, which is the of eternal bliss.