CHAPTER -XIIIINCIDENTS OF GOD FEARING PERSONS
Incident - 1:
Shaikh Kulaini narrates on the authority of Imam Ali zainul Aabedeen (A.S.) that a person along with his wife and children was travelling in a boat when suddenly it sank.
Everyone else was drowned except the man's wife, who fell on a log and was pushed away by the waves to the shores of a barren island. On that island there lived an evil
thief who had left no sin uncommitted. When he saw that woman he asked her whether she was a human or a Jen ii. She replied that she was very much a human, and that her boat had wrecked. The man did not say anything but proceeded towards, and embraced her with the intention of cohabiting. He fell the woman to be trembling and in a troubled mood. He asked her the reason for her fright. She pointed towards the sky and say, "I fear Allah". The evil man said, "Have you ever done this act"? She replied, "By Allah! I have never committed adultery".
The evil man said, "When you have never committed an indecent act, why do you fear ? Secondly it is I who am forcing you for adultery without your consent. Then too you fear Allah. In fact it is I who should fear Him more, for