I threw it from my hands, and my Master called me and said: 'O son of 'Azib: {Then did you think that We created you uselessly and that to Us you would not be returned?} ¹ ' The evidence for that is the saying of the Mighty and Majestic: {And [for] every person We have fastened his bird (fate) to his neck, and We will produce for him on the Day of Resurrection a record which he will encounter spread open. [It will be said], "Read your record. Sufficient is yourself against you this Day as accountant"} ² ."

[7] It has been narrated with a sound chain of transmission (Isnad)—though all that we have cited and shall cite in this book of ours is without doubt or suspicion, yet we have omitted the chains of transmission for fear of excessive length—from the Master, the Messenger—mighty is his might—that he said: "There shall occur after my occultation (Ghayba) an event and a war; so whoever witnesses it and fights Allah, has fought me." And he recited: {Indeed, the penalty for those who wage war against Allah and His Messenger and strive upon earth [to cause] corruption is none but that they be killed or crucified or that their hands and feet be cut off from opposite sides or that they be exiled from the land. That is for them a disgrace in this world; and for them in the Hereafter is a great punishment} ³ .