Shu'ab al-Iman (al-Bayhaqi) 996
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أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ السَّلَمِيُّ، قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ مَنْصُورَ بْنَ عَبْدِ اللهِ، يَقُولُ: سَمِعْتُ أَبَا عَلِيٍّ الرُّوذْبَارِيَّ،
يَقُولُ: " الْخَوْفُ وَالرَّجَاءُ هُمَا كَجَنَاحَيِ الطَّيِرِ إِذَا اسْتَوَيَا اسْتَوَى الطَّيْرُ وَتَمَّ طَيَرَانُهُ، وَإِذَا نَقَصَ وَاحِدٌ مِنْهُمَا وَقَعَ منه النَّقْصُ، وَإِذَا ذَهَبَا جَمِيعًا صَارَ الطَّائِرُ فِي حَدِّ الْمَوْتِ "، لِذَلِكَ قِيلَ: " لَوْ وُزِنَ خَوْفُ الْمُؤْمِنِ وَرَجَاؤُهُ لَاعْتَدَلَا "
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machine translationAbū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Sulamī informed us, he said: I heard Manṣūr b. ʿAbdullāh say: I heard Abū ʿAlī al-Rūdhbārī say,
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He said: "Fear and hope are like the two wings of a bird. When they are equal, the bird is level and its flight is complete. If either of them is diminished, deficiency occurs in it, and if both go, the bird is at the brink of death." For that reason it was said: "If the fear of the believer and his hope were weighed, they would be balanced."
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