He said: "The world has distracted them, O Mufaddal. I have lifted from them the burdens (Al-Aṣār) and the shackles (Al-Aghlāl), and I mandated upon them the right of their brother, yet they did not fulfill My mandate regarding him." I said: "They were unable." He said: "Nor are they able to visit him at his home until he comes to them, nor do they give to him until he asks them, out of tyranny and arrogance." I said: "My Master, he who is granted success acts, and he who falls short has wronged only himself." He said: "You have spoken the truth; it is only their deeds that return to them, O Mufaddal."

It was also reported with a similar meaning from Muhammad ibn Musa, from Al-Karkhi, from Abi Samina, from Al-Mufaddal, who said: "My Master said: 'I shall surely punish him who claims proximity to me yet distances his brothers.'" I said: "Have mercy on the believers, O my Master." He said: "I lifted from them the burdens and the shackles, and I mandated upon them the rights of their brother, and I joined his right to My right, yet they did not fulfill the obligation." I said: "O my Master, Your mercy precedes Your wrath; they do not know his right." [He said]: "O Mufaddal, do you think they do not know My right?!" I said: "Indeed [they do], my Master." He said: "My right is the right of the believer, and the right of the believer is My right." I said: "They attain [this] through Your success (Tawfiq)."

Al-Sayyid Abu Sa‘id—may God sanctify him—excelled and bestowed grace upon us by clarifying the negation of the Outward (Al-