How Iblís gave Mu‘áwiya, may God be well-pleased with him, a fall, and practiced dissimulation and pretence, and how Mu‘áwiya answered him.
He said, “The time for prayer is (all but) come to an end: you must run quickly to the mosque.
Mustafá (Mohammed) said, boring the pearl of the idea, ‘Make haste to perform your devotions before the time is past.’”
He (Mu‘áwiya) said, “Nay, nay; ’tis not thy purpose to be my guide unto any good.
(If) a thief come secretly into my dwelling-place and say to me, ‘I am keeping watch,’
How shall I believe that thief? How should a thief know the recompense and reward for good works?”
