They have a clamor and crying out, thinking that this crying will save them from what they are in, yet it increases them in nothing but distance from Allah the Almighty. He has clarified this in the Noble Quran, saying: {They will say, "Then supplicate." And the supplication of the disbelievers is not but in error} 1 .
And the words of the Almighty: {So direct your face toward the correct religion before there comes from Allah a Day for which there is no repelling. That Day, they will be divided} 2 . He says: Before the Revelation (al-Kashf) occurs and before the falling into the metamorphosed states (al-Masukhiyyat); for then nothing will benefit you, and nothing will rescue you from the torment. Indeed, that is a Day wherein secrets are revealed.
[56] On the authority of Abu Nasr al-Qashani, from his grandfather, from al-Husayn ibn al-Qasim al-Alawi, from Muhammad ibn Mihran, from Muhammad ibn Sadaqah, from Muhammad ibn Sinan—peace be upon him—from al-Mufaddal ibn 'Umar—peace be upon him—from the Scholar 3 —may His Might be exalted—that he said: "If you see a man whose one leg drags the other, of medium build (Marbu'an), round-headed, long-nosed, narrow-chinned, short-necked—as if his head has entered his neck and his shoulders rise above his head—wide-chested, round-bellied,