The Trespassing
قُلْ يَا أَهْلَ الْكِتَابِ لَا تَغْلُوا فِي دِينِكُمْ غَيْرَ الْحَقِّ وَلَا تَتَّبِعُوا أَهْوَاءَ قَوْمٍ قَدْ ضَلُّوا مِنْ قَبْلُ وَأَضَلُّوا كَثِيرًا وَضَلُّوا عَنْ سَوَاءِ السَّبِيلِ {775:}
Say: “O people of the Book! exceed not in your religion the bounds (of what is proper), trespassing beyond the truth, nor follow the vain desires of people who went wrong in times gone by- who misled many, and strayed (themselves) from the even way (5:77).
عَلِيُّ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ عَنْ هَارُونَ بْنِ مُسْلِمٍ عَنْ مَسْعَدَةَ بْنِ صَدَقَةَ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ع قَالَ إِنَّ النَّبِيَّ ص كَانَ إِذَا بَعَثَ أَمِيراً لَهُ عَلَى سَرِيَّةٍ أَمَرَهُ بِتَقْوَى اللَّهِ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ فِي خَاصَّةِ نَفْسِهِ ثُمَّ فِي أَصْحَابِهِ عَامَّةً ثُمَّ يَقُولُ
Ali ibn Ibrahim has narrated from Harun ibn Muslim Masadah ibn Sadaqah who has said the following:
Abu Abd Allah-asws has said that when Rasool Allah-saww appointed a commander for a small group of people to be dispatched for an armed expedition, he-saww commanded him to maintain piety before Allah-azwj in his own affairs, and then he-saww commanded him to maintain piety in the affairs of the people under his command. He-saww then said:
اغْزُ بِسْمِ اللَّهِ وَ فِي سَبِيلِ اللَّهِ قَاتِلُوا مَنْ كَفَرَ بِاللَّهِ وَ لَا تَغْدِرُوا وَ لَا تَغُلُّوا
‘Go forward in the name of Allah-azwj, in the way of Allah-azwj, fight in the way of Allah-azwj, neither betray nor be excessive…’[1]
ثُمَّ قَالَ نَحْنُ آلُ مُحَمَّدٍ النَّمَطُ الْأَوْسَطُ الَّذِي لَا يُدْرِكُنَا الْغَالِي وَ لَا يَسْبِقُنَا التَّالِي
(Imam Jafar e Sadiq-asws says in a long Hadith):
‘We-asws, people of the family of the Prophet-saww are the median (pivotal) classification. Those who ‘الْغَالِي’ Al-Ghali (exaggerator) cannot catch up with us-asws and those who follow ‘التَّالِي’ cannot go ahead of us-asws…
And Imam-asws says:
ثُمَّ الْتَفَتَ إِلَيْنَا فَقَالَ مَا تَوَهَّمْتُمْ مِنْ شَيْءٍ فَتَوَهَّمُوا اللَّهَ غَيْرَهُ
Then he-asws turned around towards us, and he-asws said: ‘Whatever you are imagining from a thing, so imagine Allah-azwj to be other than it’.[2]
NB: https://hubeali.com/ghulu-ghali-fabrication-and-taqseer-muqassir-ignorance/
[1] Al-Kafi, Vol. 5, H. 8193.
[2] Al-Kafi, Vol. 1, H. 268. الكافي ج : 1 ص : 101