المَسؤولِيَّة
RESPONSIBILITY
المَسؤولِيَّةُ / Responsibility
1ـ الإمامُ عليٌّ (عَلَيهِ الّسَلامُ): اِتَّقُوا اللّهَ في عِبادِهِ وبِلادِهِ فإنّكُم مَسؤولُونَ حتّى عنِ البِقاعِ والبَهائمِ، أطِيعُوا اللّهَ ولا تَعصُوهُ.
1– Imam Ali (AS) said, 'Be careful of your duty to Allah with respect to His people as well as His places, for verily you will be answerable even for the places
[you frequented] and the animals. Obey Allah and do not disobey Him.’
[Nahj al-Balagha, Sermon 167]
المَسؤولِيَّة
RESPONSIBILITY
3ـ الإمامُ عليٌّ (عَلَيهِ الّسَلامُ): كُلُّ امرِئٍ مَسؤولٌ عمّا مَلَكَتْ يَمِينُهُ وعِيالِهِ.
3– Imam Ali (AS) said, 'Every single person is answerable for all that he possesses and all who depend on him.’
[Ghurar al-Hikam, no. 7254]
مَسؤولِيَّةُ السَّمعِ وَالبَصَرِ وَالفُؤادِ / The Answerability of the Hearing, the Sight and the Heart
4ـ كتاب منلا يحضره الفقيه: قالَ رجلٌ للصّادِقِ (عَلَيهِ الّسَلامُ): إنّ لي جِيرانا ولَهُم جَوارٍ يَتَغَنَّينَ ويَضرِبن بالعُودِ ، فرُبّما دَخَلتُ المَخرَجَ فَاُطِيلُ الجُلُوسَ استِماعا مِنّي لَهُنَّ؟... فقالَ لَهُ الصّادقُ (عَلَيهِ الّسَلامُ): تاللّهِ أنتَ ! أما سَمِعتَ اللّهَ عزّوجلّ يقولُ: «إنَّ السَّمْعَ والبَصَرَ والفُؤادَ كُلُّ اُولئكَ كانَ عنه مَسْؤولاً»؟!
4– It has been narrated in Man La Yahzuruhu al-Faqih that a man once came to Imam al-Sadiq (AS) saying, 'I have a neighbour whose slave girls sing and play the lute, and sometimes when I go to the outhouse I take my time there so I may listen to them…? So Imam al-Sadiq (AS) said to him, 'By Allah! Have you not heard the verse of Allah, Mighty and Exalted,
[in the Qur'an], "Verily the hearing and the sight and the heart, each of those shall be answerable for it"?!
[ al-Faqih, v. 1, p. 80, no. 177]