Kafur, the servant narrates: One evening Imam Ali Naqi (a) said, “Fill up so and so pot with water and keep it at so and so place so that I may use it for ablution.” I had not yet carried out his instructions but that the Imam sent me out on another errand, saying,
“First do that and only then fill the pot.”
After that he went to sleep and I did not remember to fill the water. It was a very cold season and when the Imam arose at night, I remembered not having filled the pot of water and that he would be displeased with me.
In order to avoid his displeasure I moved away from there but with regret that the Imam would search for the pot in vain.
Suddenly he called me angrily. I said: Inna lillaah...and began wondering what excused would I offer while not going to him was also not a solution. So I went to him dejected.
He said, “Woe be on you; do you not know that I have the habit of making ablution with cold water. Then why you kept hot water in the pot?”
“Maula, the fact is that I completely forgot to keep the pot. So I neither kept the pot nor heated the water.”
He said, “Thanks be to that being who granted ease to us at every step and thanks to Him who considered me among those obedient to Him, granted the good sense to worship Him and rendered me His assistance. The Holy Prophet (s) said:
Allah is infuriated at one who does not accept the ease provided by Him.”
Amali, Tusi, Vol. 1, Pg. 304-305; Biharul Anwar, Vol. 50, Pg. 126, Miracles of Ahlulbayt (a.s. ) - Vol. 4,Pg.123
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