ALLAH FORGETS THOSE WHO FORGET HIM

Muhammad b. Muhammad b. `Isam al-Kulayni narrated to us, he said: Muhammad b. Yaqoub al-Kulayni narrated to us, he said: the well-known `Ali b. Muhammad narrated to us, he said: Abu Hamid `Imran b. Musa b. Ibrahim narrated to us, from Husayn b. Qasim ar-Raqaam, from Qasim b. Muslim, from his brother `Abdul `Aziz b. Muslim, who said:

I asked (Imam) Rida [a] about the saying of Allah, Mighty and Exalted, "They have forgotten Allah, so He hath forgotten them."

He replied: Indeed Allah, Blessed and High is He, does not forget nor does he (accidentally) omit. It is indeed only the produced creation who forgets and omits. Have you not heard the Mighty and Exalted say: "and thy Lord never doth forget" [19:64]. Indeed it is only applicable to those who have forgotten Him (Allah) and have forgotten the meeting (with Allah) on His day (Day of Judgment), just as they have forgotten their souls (nafsuhum). As the Mighty and Exalted has said: "And be ye not like those who forgot Allah. And He made them forget their own souls! Such are the rebellious transgressors!"[59:19], and the saying of the Mighty and Exalted: "That day shall We forget them as they forgot the meeting of this day of their". That is, we will abandon them just as they abandoned the preparation for the meeting of this day of theirs.