1. `Ali ibn Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn `Imran al-Daqqaq said: Muhammad ibn Ya`qub said: `Ali ibn Muhammad said who eliminated the source of the report, on the authority of Shu`ayb al`Aqarqufi, on the authority of Abu Baisr

that I was sitting before Abu `Abd Allah al-Sadiq and a questioner asked him, “May I be your ransom, O son of the Messenger of Allah ! How does adversity reach the sinners so that He punished them for their actions out of His Knowledge? Abu `Abd Allah replied, O questioner, Allah, the Mighty and High, knows that no one from His Creation can truly rise. When He knows this, He bestowed His lovers the strength for His recognition and took away from them the weightiness of the action with the reality of what they deserve. He gave the disobedient the strength through which they disobey. Due to His prior Knowledge, He did not prohibit them from accepting Him because His Knowledge is better about the reality of confirmation. They act in accord with His Prior Knowledge, despite the fact they ar able to desist from His disobedience. This is the meaning of `He wills what He wills’, and it is a secret.