4- HIS SAYINGS
Al- S&liq, peace be on him, has original sayings and rare words. They raise the good souls to the classes of angels and lead people to the virtue and happiness when they use and consider them carefully. I have collected and selected a group of them in earnest. He, peace be on him, said:
1. Intellect is that with which people worship the Most Gracious (Allah) and with which they obtain gardens.
2. Verily, the reward is equal to intellect.
3. The most perfect of men in intellect is the best of them in ethics.
4. Intellect is the pillar of man.
5. Intellect is the guide of the believer.’
6. The perfection of intellect is in three (things): humbleness for Allah, good certainty, and silence except for good.
7. Ignorance is in three (things): Haughtiness, the intense of dispute, and the ignorance in Allah.
8. The best nature of intellect is worship, the strongest speech for it is knowledge, and its most abundant luck is maxim.
9. To consider knowledge very much opens intellect.
10. Knowledge is a shield, truthfulness is might, ignorance is abasement, understanding is glory, generosity is success, good behavior causes friendship, he who has knowledge about his time, ambiguous things do not attack him, and determination is mistrust.
11. If you want that you are honored, then be soft. And if you want that you are abused, then be rough.
12. He whose origin is noble, his heart is soft, and he whose race is rough, his liver is thick.
13. Whoever is extreme gets involved, and whoever is afraid of the consequence refrains from entering what he does not know.
14. Whoever attacks a matter without knowledge cuts off his own nose.
15. Scholars are trustees, the Allah- fearing are strongholds, and guardians are masters.
16. Verily, knowledge is a lock and its key is the question.
17. Whoever acts without prescience is like the walker without way, the speed of walking does not increase him but farness.
18. Allah does not accept any act without knowledge, there is no knowledge without act, so whoever knows, knowledga leads him to act, and whoever does not act gets no knowledge, but belief is a little of a little.
19. The favor is not perfected but with three (things):
by doing it quickly, debasing it, and hiding it.
20. Not everyone who sees a thing is able to do it, not everyone who is able to do a thing is successful in doing it, and not everyone who is successful in it. when intention, ability, success, and righteousness come together, happiness occurs.
21. Four things of which little is much: Fire, enmity, poverty, and illness.
22. Twenty- day- friendship is a relationship.
23. Whoever does not feel shame during absence and does not repent during old age and does not fear Allah during loneliness, then he has no good.
24. Whoever honors you, then honor him. And whoever scorns you, then honor yourself from him.
25. To forbid generosity is mistrust in Allah.
26. Verily, the family of a person are his prisoners, so whomever is bestowed upon him, then he should be generous toward them, and if he does not (do that), that favor is about to disappear from him.
27. Three (things) with which Allah does not increase the Muslim person but glory: To forgive him who wrongs him; to give him who deprives him, to visit him who abandons him.
28. When the believer becomes angry, his anger should not take him out of the truth; and when he becomes satisfied, his satisfaction should not bring him in falsehood.
29. Friendship has five conditions. Whoever has them, then attribute him to it. Whoever has not them, then do not attribute him to any of it. They are: the good of his friend should be his good, his inward thoughts for him should be like his openness, no money should change him against him, he should hold the view that he is worthy of all his friendship, and should not abandon him during misfortunes.’
30. The noble man should not turn up his nose at four (things): his standing from his sitting for his father, his service for his guest, taking care of his riding animal even if he has a hundred slaves, and his service for his teacher.
31. (Religious) scholars are the trustees of prophets unless they come to the doors of supreme rulers.
32. A man from the people of Iraq (ahl al- Sawâd) went to him (alSâdiq) frequently, then he broke away from him, So he (the Imam) asked some people about him. To detract from him, one of them said:” He is Nabati.” So, he (the Imam), peace be on him, said:” The origin of the man is his intellect, his ancestry is his religion, his generosity is his piety, and men are equal in Adam (Adam).”
33. Noble deeds are ten, if you want them to be with you, then let them be, they are with the man and are not with his children; they are with the child and are not with his father; they are with the slave and are not with the master: What are they? He, peace be on him, said: the truthfulness of men, the truthfulness of the tongue, paying the trust, linking the relatives on the maternal side, entertaining the guest, giving food to the beggar, rewarding the favors, to avoid blaming the neighbor, to avoid censuring the friend, and their head is modesty.
34. Some of the correctness of the belief of the Muslim person is that he should not please men through angering Allah, and do not blame them for what Allah has not given him, because the miserliness of the miserly does not drive livelihood, and the hatred of the hater does not live it away, and if one of you escaped from his livelihood as he escapes from deat, his livelihood would reach him as death reaches him.
35. Verily, with his justice, Allah has put comfort and ease in certainty and satisfaction, and put worry and sorrow in doubt and anger.
36. The head of the obedience of Allah is patience and pleasure for what Allah likes and dislikes for the servant, and if the servant is satisfied with what Allah likes and dislikes for him, it will be good for him in what He likes and dislikes.
37. Indeed, the most knowledge of all men in Allah is the most satisfied of them with death.
38. Do not BACKbite, so you are BACKbited, and do not dig a judge you would be judged by.
39. Be ware ofjoking because it loses face and the dignity of men.
40. Do not dispute, so your glory goes, and do not joke, so you are dared (so men dare to say rude things about you).
41. Be ware of the dispute because it brings about the hateful ugly thing and shows the defect.
42. Whoever is not shy of seeking legal livelihood, his provisions is light, and his family leads a life of ease and comfort.
43. 1 wonder at him who is miserly for life in this world and it is coming towards him or is miserly in it and it is turning away from him , so neither spending with coming harms him nor miserliness with turning away avails him.
44. The prisoner is he whose life in this world imprisons him from his NEXT life.
45. Do not make your hearts busy thinking about byaone, so you divert your minds from getting ready to what has not come yet.
46. Seek livelihood by giving alms, guard your wealth by Zakat, he who is moderate does not become destitute, organization is half livelihood, loving one another is half wisdom, small family is one of the ways of (securing) ease, whoever saddens his parents certainly is disobedient to them, favor is not favor but with him who has ancestry and religion, Allah, the Exalted, sends down endurance according to the affliction and livelihood according to the provisions, whoever appreciates his livelihood, Allah, the Exalted, gives him, and whoever wastes his livelihood, Allah, the Exalted, deprives him (of that).
I (the author) say: Some of these clauses are attributed to the Commander of the Faithful (Amir al- Mu’minTn) in Nahj al- Ba1agha, and al- Sâdiq, peace be on him, may have mentioned them as qauotations.
47. The richest riches is he who is not captive for greed.
48. Nothing is better than silence, no enemy is more harmful than ignorance, and no illness is more dangerous than telling lies.
49. Three (things) with which no thing is harmful:
The prayers during distress, asking Allah’s forgiveness during the sin, and thankfulness during the blessing.
50. The believer is popular, and there is no good in him who neither associates nor is associated.
51. It was said (to him): What is good behavior?
He, peace be on him, said: Make yourself gentle, make your words good, and receive your brother with cheerfulness.
52. He whose tongue is truthful his act grows, he whose intention is good his livelihood is increased, and he whose charity is good for the members of his house his age is prolonged .
53. Modesty is (a part) of belief.
54. He whose face is soft his knowledge is soft.
55. He who has no modesty has no belief.’
56. Three (things) are of the noble acta of here and hereafter: Forgive him who has wronged you, visit him who has abandoned you, and be patient when you are treated with ignorance.
57. Any members of a house are given their luck of gentleness most surely Allah increases their livelihood, gentleness in appreciating livelihood is better than the increase of money, nothing lacks strength for gentleness, nothing stays with wastefulness, Indeed, Allah, the Great and Almighty, is gentle. He loves gentleness.
58. Whoever is gentle in (obtaining) his matter obtains what he wants from men.
59. Whoever is satisfied with what Allah has given him then is the richest of men.
60. A man complained to him (al- Sâdiq) that he sought (his livelihood) and earned but he was not satisfied, and his soul contended with him at pulling (to earn) more, and he said: Teach me a thing to avail myself of, so Abu Abd Allah, peace be on him, said: If what suffices you makes you rich, then the smallest thing in this world makes you rich. And if what suffices you does not make you rich, then all things in this world do not make you rich.
61. Justice is sweeter than the water the thirsty (person) have.
62. How wide justice is even if it is very little.
63. Whoever treats men with justice is accepted as judge for others.
64. The honor of a believer is to pray at night, and his dignity is to be in no need of men.
65. To request needs from men takes dignity and removes modesty, and to despair of what is in the hands of men is glory for the believer in his religion.
66. To visit blood relatives improves manners, makes the self good, increases livelihood, and delays death.
67. It is enough that patience is a supporter.
68. If you are not patient, then pretend to be patient.
69. Whoever prevents
his hand from men prevents only one hand and they prevent many hands.
70. It is enough that the person depends on his brother when he requests his need from him.’
71. Alms Allah loves: To reconcile men after they have quarreled and bring them closer together after they have left each other.
72. Whoever treats people and does not wrong them, speaks to them and does not tell them lies, and promises them and does not break his promise, his BACKbiting is forbidden, his manhood is perfect, his justice appears, his brotherhood is a must.
73. Whoever requests leadership perishes.
74. Whoever sows enmity reaps what he has sown.
75. Anger is the key of every evil.
76. Anger is the destruction of the wise man.
77. Whoever does not control his anger does not control his intellect.
78. Verily, envy eats belief as fire eats wood.
79. The catastrophe of religion is envy, self- admiration, and boasting.
80. No one becomes haughty but because of abasement finds in himself.
81. What a bad believer is he who has a desire (that) abases him.
82. Foolishness is a mean nature, has the cheek to those who are below him, and yields to those who are superior to him.’
83. Verily (the things) of which Allah helps against the liars is forgetfulness.
84. Be ware of the slip of elaboration because it is not forgiven.
85. The best of men is he in whom five traits have come together: If he does well, he is cheerful; if he does badly, be asks forgiveness; if he is afflicted, he is patient, and if he is wronged, he forgives.
86. Abu Hanlfa said to him (al- Sâdiq): Abu Abd Allah, how patient you are during the prayers! He, peace be on him, said: Woe unto you! Nu’min, do not you know that the prayer is the sacrifice of the God- fearing, the hajj (pilgrim) is the jihad of the weak, every thing has Zakat and the Zakat of the body is fasting, the best act is to wait the ease from Allah, the propagandist without act is like the archer without string? So, memorize these words, Nu’man.
87. I swear by Allah, three (things) are most surely true: No property decreases because of alms or Zal(at, not anyone is wronged and is able to repay but controls it surely Allah recompense him glory instead, nor any slave opens the door of begging for himself surely Allah opens a door of poverty for him.
88. The manhood of a person in himself is a relationship to his children and his tribe.’
89. Seven (persons) corrupt their own acts: The meek man with a lot of knowledge (who) is not known with that nor is mentioned with; the wise man whose property is managed by a liar (who) is ungrateful for what is given to him; the man who is safe from the possessor of cunning and treason; the rude master who has no mercy, the mother who does not keep the secret of the child and spreads it; the person who blames his brothers quickly, and he who argues with his brothers to quarrel with them.
90. Neither the possessor of haughtiness aims to good praise, nor does the deceiver to much truthfulness, nor does the Impolite (person) to honor, nor does the miser to linking blood relatives, nor does he who scorn men to sincere affection, nor does he who has little knowledge at jurisprudence to judgment, nor does the BACKbitef to safety, nor does the envier to the ease of the heart, nor does he who punishes (people) for the small mistake to correctness nor does he who has little experience and is self- conceited to leadership.
91. He whose guard is detertfliflatiOn, whose friend is truthfulness, his splendor is great, and his manhood is perfect.
92. A generous ignorant (person) is better than a miserly hermit.
93. Whoever requests more than his right is worthy of deprivation.
94. The worthiest’ of men jfl forgiveness is the ablest of them in punishment, and the most defective of men in intellect is he who wrongs those who are inferior to him and does not forgive him who apologizes to him.
95. Do not be the first consultant, and be ware of the unripe idea.
96. Investigation is discord.
97. Criticism is enmity.
98. The paucity of patience is a scandal.
100. Generosity is cleverness.
101. Meanness is heedlessness.
102. Whoever neglects three (things) is deprived:
To request the favor of the generous person, to make friends with the scholar and to attract the ruler.
103. Three (things) cause affection: Religion, modesty, and generosity
104. Whoever gets rid of evil gets glory; whoever gets rid of haughtiness gets dignity, and whoever gets rid of miserliness gets honor.
105. Three (things) cause hatred: hypocrisy, self admiration, and oppressiOn.
106. Whoever has not a trait of three (traits) is not regarded as noble: Whoever has no intellect to make him good, or riches to help him, or a tribe to support him.
107. Three (things) abase the person: envy, slander, and recklessness.
108. Three (things) are not known but during three situations: The meek (person) is not known but during anger, nor is the brave (person) known but during war, nor is the brother known but during need.
109. Whoever has three (traits) is a hypocrite even if he prays or fasts: when he speaks, he tells lies, when he promises, he breaks (his promise), and when he is trusted, he betrays.
110. Beware of three (persons) of men: The traitor, the oppressor, and the slanderer, because he who betrays (his friend) for you will betray you, whoever oppresses (his friend) for you will oppress you, and whoever slanders for you will slander against you.
111. The trusty (person) is not trusty but when he is trusted with three (things) and repays them: Properties, women, and children. If he keeps two (of them) and loses one, then he is not trusty.
112. Do not ask the advice of the foolish (person); do not seek the help of the liar, and do not trust the affection of the bored (person), because the liar approaches the far (things) for you and distances the close (things) for you; the foolish (person) does his best but does not reach what he wants and whatever you have confidence in the bored (persOfl)a he betrays you and whatever you send him gifts, he abandons you.
113. Four (things) are not full of four (things):
a land of rain; an eye of looking; a female of male, and a scholar of knowledge.
114. Four (things) make (the person) grow old before the time of old age: Eating cured meat; sitting on moistness, going up with stairs, and having sexual intercourse with the old women.
115. Women are three (Kinds): One is for you; one is for you and against you, and one is against you not for you: As for the woman who is for you is the Virgin woman, as for she who is for you and against you is the deflowered (woman), and as for she who is against you is al- Mutbi’ who has a child from other than you.
116. Whoever has three (traits) is a master: Suppressing anger; forgiving the person who misbehaves, and linking with the self and property.
117. Eloquence is in three (things): To approach the meaning of the purpose, to avoid wordiness, and to prove the many (things) with the few (things).
118. Toil is in three (things): In changing the brothers; turning away (from each other), and spying about what does not mean (you).
119. Three (things) prevent (the person) from getting high positions: The shortness of determination; Shamelessness, and the weakness of the idea.
120. Determination is in three (things):
The exploitation of sultan, the obedience to the father, and the yielding to the master.
121. Amusement is in three (things): In the agreeable wife; the obedient child, and the sincere friend.
122. Whomever is given three (things) obtains the greatest riches: The satisfaction in what he is given, the despair of what is in the hands of men, and leaving curiosity.
123. The person is not forgiven for three (things):
The consultation of the adviser, willingness to please the envier, and showing affection to men.
124. Whoever does not wish for three (things) is afflicted by three (things): Whoever does not wish for safety is afflicted by abandonment; whoever does not wish for charity is afflicted by regret, and whoever does not wish for making many brothers (friends) is afflicted by loss.
125. Man should avoid three (things): Making friends with the evil; speaking to women, and sitting with the people of heresies.
126. Three (things) show the nobility of a person: Good behavior, suppressing anger, and lowering (of one’s) glance.
127. Whoever is confident in three (things) is conceited: whoever believes in that which does not exist, depends on him who does not trust him, and wishes for what he has not.
128. Whoever uses three (things) corrupts his religion and his life in this world: Mistrust, reliance on hearing, and giving leadership to his wife.
129. The best of kings is he who has three traits: mercy, generosity, and justice.
130. Kings should not neglect three (things): defending borders; looking for complaints, and choosing the righteous for their acts.
131. The wise man should not scorn anyone, especially three (persons): the scholars, the supreme ruler, and the brothers (friends), because whoever scorns the scholars corrupts his religion; whoever scorns the supreme ruler corrupts his life in this world, and whoever scorns his brothers corrupts his manhood.
132. Men need three (things) very much: security, justice, and richness.
133. Three (things) trouble life: the oppressive ruler, the bad neighbor, and the abusive woman.
134. Living is not good but with three (things):
fresh air, plentiful water, and the level land.
135. Whoever has three (things) is perfect: intellect, handsomeness, and aIOqUence
136. Th(things) cause deprivation: the insistence on the request, aackbitiflg, and mockery.
137. Whoever asks three (things) without rights deprived of three (things) without right: Whoever asks life in this world without right will be deprived of life in the hereafter with right; whoever asks leadership without right is deprived of obedience for him with right, and whoever asks property without right is deprived of its lasting for him with right.
138. The prudent person should not do three (things):
Drinking poison for experiment even if he is saved from it; spreading the secret to the envious relatives even if he is saved from it, and traveling by sea even if there is riches in it.
139. The people of every country is in need of three (persons). They resort to them in the affair of their life in this world and in hereafter. If they lose them, they are rabble: A Religious, knowledgeable jurisprudent, good obeyed Emir, a knowing trusty doctor.
140. If men are safe from three (things), safety. is common: a bad tongue, a bad hand, and a bad act.
141. If the slave has not one of three traits, then his master has no rest: religion guides him, good manners lead him, or fear holds him BACK.
142. The person needs three (things) in his house for his family: nice association, comfort with estimation, and sense of honor with chastity.
143. Whoever is afflicted by one of three (things) is weak minded: turning away blessing, corrupt wife, disaster of a dear one.
144. Bravery has been made according to three natures, each one of them have a virtue of which the other has not: generosity with the self, looking down upon abasement, and requesting reputation. If they come together in the brave (person), he will be the hero in whose way no one stands and marked by boldness in his time, and if they are superior to each other, his bravery will be in the nature that is superior to the others.
145. The child should fulfill three (things) for his parents: (He should) thank them any how, obey them in what they order him (to do) and prevent him from disobeying Allah, and (take) their advice secretly and openly.
146. And the father should fulfill three (things) for his child: (He should) choose his mother, give him a good name, and spare no effort to educate him.
147. Pleasure is in three (things): in faithfulness, conforming to the rights, and rising in misfortunes.
148. Three (things) show the right idea: the good meeting, good listening, and the good answer.
149. Men are three (kinds): a wise (man), a foolish (man), and a licentious (man)- if the wise (man) is asked, he answers. If he speaks, he says the right thing. And if he hears, he understands. If the foolish (man) speaks, he (speaks) in a hurry. If he is told, he becomes astonished. And if he is ordered (to do) the disgraceful (things), he does (it). If you trust the licentious (man), he betrays you. And if you speak to him (about something), he disgraces you.
150. There is no estrangement with three (things):
good behavior, refraining from harm, and avoiding doubt.
151. Days are three (kinds): so a day has passed; it can not be repeated, a day when men are on it, so they must avail themselves of it, and tomorrow whose hope is in their hands only.
152. However has not three traits, his belief does not avail him: patience to refute the ignorance of the ignorant (person), fear of God to prevent him from seeking the forbidden, and good ethics to treat men kindly.
153. The brothers (the friends) are three (kinds):
(The first kind) helps you with himself, (the second kind helps you) with his money- they are truthful in brother hood (friendship), and (the third kind) takes the purpose from you and wants you for some pleasure, then do not regard him as (one) of the people of trust.
154. The servant does not complete the truth of belief till he has three qualities: understanding in religion, good estimation in living, and patience for misfortunes.
155. Thank him who bestows upon you, and bestow upon him who thanks you, because the blessings do not end when you thank and they do not stay when you are ungrateful.
156. It was said to him (aI- Sadiq): What is morality? So he, peace be on him, said: It is that Allah does not see you where He has forbidden you and does not miss you where LIe has ordered you.
157. Missing the need is better than requesting it from other than its people, and severer than the disaster is the bad consequence (that results) from it.
158. Surely, feeble is he who does not prepare patience for every disaster, thankfulness for every blessing, and ease for every difficulty.
159. The desirable are not increased but with thankfulness and the hateful are not decreased but with patience.
160. The most useful thing for a person is that he precedes men for his own defect, and the strongest of them in provisions is to conceal destitution, the severest thing in pains is to give advice to him who does not accept it and to neighbor the greedy (person), and the most comfortable thing is to despair of men 161. Whoever puts himself in the place of accusation, then does not blame him who mistrusts him.
162. Whoever conceals his secret, good is in his hand, and every speech passes two (persons) is spreading.
163. Put the instruction of your brother in the best manner, and do not mistrust a word that comes out of your brother while you find a reason for it in the good.
164. Cleave to the brothers of truthfulness, because they are readiness during comfort and protection during the misfortune.
165. Some of good faith is knowledge, some of good knowledge is clemency, some of good clemency is fellowship, some of good fellowship is leniency, and some of good leniency is easiness.
166. Beautiful forgiveness is that you have not admonished for the sin, and beautiful patience is that which has no complaint.
167. Al- Mufaddal b. ‘Amr asked him (al- Sâdiq) about ancestry, so he, peace be on him, said: the property.
He (al- Mufaddal) said: so generosity, he, peace be on him, said: piety, he said: rightness, he, peace be on him, said: generosity, woe unto you! Did you not know that how Hâtam al- Tâ’i became the master of his people while he was not the best of them in position.
168. Charity is the Zakat (alms) of blessings, intercession is the Zakat of dignity, illnesses are the Zakat of bodies, forgiveness is the Zakat of victory, and the thing whose Zakat is paid is safe from taking (by Allah).
169. Some maimers of the ignorant (person) are: the answer before he hears, the oppositiOn before heinderstands, and the judgment with what he does not know.
170. Your secret is (some) of your blood, then do not make it flow in other than your veins.
171. Your, chest is wider for your secret.
172. Whoever does not make friends with him who has no defect his friends are very few, whoever is not satisfied with his friend but (that his friend) prefers him to himself his wrath lasts, and whoever admonishes (his friend) for every sin his admonishment lasts.
173. If the ill- natured (person) knows that he tortures himself, he will be tolerant in his manners.
174. When the person is tongue- tied, the, idea refrains from him, and the ways puzzle him surely fellowship is his key.
175. Three (groups) get nothing but good: Those who keep silent, those who give up evil, those who remember Allah, the Great and Almighty, very much, and the head of determination is humbleness.
176. Iry your brother during a blessing happens to you or a misfortune afflict you.
177. He whose anger appears his deception appears, and he whose desire becomes strong his determination becomes weak.
178. Whoever does not advance the examination before trust, and trust before fellowship, his fellowship produces regret.
179. Man’s look is a part of his inner- self.
180. Whoever is opinionated is liable to the dangers of slips.’
181. Whoever does not ask Allah (to give him) of his favor becomes poor.
182. Verily, supplication is more penetrative than the spear head.
183. Some men visited him (al- Sfldiq), suddenly one man of them mentioned a man, BACKbited him (the man) and of him, so AbU Abd Allah said to him: How is all your brother for you, which of men is well- bred?
184. The relation among brothers during presence is to visit each other, and during travel is to write to each other.
185. The hearts are disposed by nature for loving him who avails them and hating him who harms them.
186. The debt is worry during night and abasement during day.
187. Obey your parents and your children obey you, and be chaste for the women of men and your women are chaste.
188. The person is many with his brother, and there is no good in the friendship of him who does not wish you what you wish for him.
189. Two men disputed at his presence, so he, peace be on him, said to them: Truly, whoever is victorious with oppression does not get good, and whoever does evil for people, then must not deny evil when it is done for him.
190. No living is more comfortable than good behavior, no property is more useful than the satisfaction with the small profitable (thing), and no ignorance is more harmful than vanity.
191. Shake hands with each other because it removes the spite.
192. Fear Allah some fear even it is little, and leave a screen between you and Allah even if it is thin.
193. Much thinking about the wise saying fertilizes intellect.
194. He was asked about the quality of justice of the man, so he, peace on him, said: If he prevents his eyes from the forbidden, his tongue from sins, and his hand from the wrong.
195. Whoever does not acknowledge some one’s favor then he is self-conceited.
196. Two qualities do not come together in a hypocrite, a good way and understanding a norm.
197. No one, even if the conditions help him, abstracts luxury living but through a misfortune, and whoever anticipates to postpone the misfortune through hastening towards the chances, the days deprives him of his chance, 1because. the state of the days is deprivation and the way of days is paSsing.
198. How many a deceived (person) in what Allah has bestowed upon him, how many a tempted (person) in Allah’s concealment for him, and a bow many charmed (person) by the praise of men for him.
199. Good health is a hidden blessing: if it is found it is forgotten, and if it is missed it is remembered.
200. Good health is a blessing for which thankfulness is feeble.
201. Badness is in three (things): in the woman, the riding animal, and the house, as for the badness in the woman is her high dowry and her disobedience for her husband, as for the riding animal is its bad behavior and preventing its BACK, and as for the house is narrowness of its yard and the evil of its neighbors and the large number of its defects.
202. It was said to him: Which traits of the person are the best? So he, peace on him, said: Solemnity without awe, generosity without seeking a reward, and busyness in other than the belongings of this world.
203. Whoever has no five (qualities) has not many enjoyable (things), It was said (to him): Son of the Prophet of Allah, may Allah bless him and his family, what are they? So he, peace be on him, said: religion, intellect, modesty, good behavior, good manners. And whoever has not five (qualities) is not happy at living: good health, security, riches, satisfaction, and an agreeable friend.
204. How much patience of an hour causes long happiness, and how much pleasure causes long sadness.
205. It is not (an act) of fairness to ask the brothers (to make) fairness.
206. The angry (person) has no idea, the bored (person) has no friend, the envier has no riches, whoever does not think about consequences is not determined, ‘and thinking bout consequences is the fertilization of hearts.
207. Cleave to generosity and good behavior, because they adorn the person as the middle jewel adorns the necklace.
208. Three (things) are of happiness: the agreeable wife, the obedient child, and (when) the person is given sustenance for which he goes early in the morning and comes BACK to his family.
209. Sleeping is rest for the body, speech is rest for the soul, and silence is rest for intellect.
210. Do not call the man a friend; call him acquaintance till you try him with three (things): make him angry, then wait (to know whether) his anger takes him out of the right to the falsehood (or not), during the Dinâr and the Durham, and when you travel with him.
211. How many a blessing Allah bestows upon His servant without his act, how many a hoping (person) for a hope and the choice is in other than it, and how many a walker for his death and he is slow from his luck.
212. (It is an act) of injustice that the rider says to the walker: the road.
213. If the man loves his religion, his brothers love him.
214. The honor of a believer is his prayers at night, and his dignity is to refrain from harming people.
215. Approach Allah through helping your brothers.
216. I ensure him who economizes that he will not be poor.
217. Be patient for the enemies of blessings, because you do not reward him who disobeys Allah through you better than you obey Allah through him.
218. Whoever is satisfied with death, death will put an end to him and through it he will be rewarded, and whoever is dissatisfied with death, death will put an end to him and Allah will frustrate his action.
219. Give presents to each other (to) love each other, because the present removes the spites.
220. Allah is not worshipped with better than silence and going to His House.
221. I prevent you from (having) two qualities through which the men get ruined: that you borrow a loan from Allah with falsehood and give a legal opinion without knowledge.
222. (Some) of the reality of faith is that you (should) prefer the truth even if it harms you to falsehood even if it avails you, and your words should not exceed your action.
223. The greedy (person) is deprived of two qualities and two qualities are always present with him: He is deprived of satisfaction so he misses 6 rest, and he is deprived of pleasure so he misses certainty.
224. Safety is with conviction, and regret is with hastiness.
225. Whoever begins an action not in its time fulfills it not in its time.
226. Men are three (kinds): a man is with his property, a man is with his high rank, and a man is with his tongue and is the best of the three (men).
a227. Begging is not permitted but in three (states): unpayable blood money or a heavy debt or an extreme need.
228. Indeed, the worthiest of men to wish men riches are the misers, because if men bçcome rich they will refrain from their properties, the worthiest of men to wish men righteousness are the people of defects, because if men become righteous they will refrain from looking for their defects, and the worthiest of men to wish men clemency are the people of foolishness, who need (men) to forgive their foolishness, so the people of miserliness have wished men poverty, the people of defects have wished men defects, and the people of foolishness have wished men foolishness, because poverty (makes man) in need of the miser, corruption (makes man) look for the people of defected, and foolishness is a reward for sins.
229. Whoever shows enmity toward three (persons) becomes humble: the parents, the supreme ruler, and the creditor.’
230. The demands of men in this world are four (things): riches, gentleness, littleness of concern, and glory. As for riches, it is found in satisfaction. So, whoever seeks it in the muchness of property does not find it. As for the littleness of concern, it is found in the littleness (with the muchness of work) does not find it (concern). And as for glory, it is found in the service of the Creator. So, whoever seeks it in the service of the creature does not find it.
231. I have found the knowledge of all men in four (things): the first of them is that you should know your Lord, the second is that you should know what He has made with you, the third is that you should know what He has wanted from you, and the fourth is that you should know what takes you out of your religion.
232. If four (things) spread, four (things) appear: If adultery spreads, earth quakes appear. If Zakât (alms) is forbidden, cattle are perished. If the judge is unjust in judgment, rain does not come down from the sky. And if the non- Muslims guard, the polytheists over- come the Muslims.
233. Verily, patience, piety, clemency, and good behavior are among the manners of prophets.
234. Four (things) are in vain: eating after fullness, the lamp in the moon, the plant in the salty land, and the favor for the inappropriate person.
235. Four (things) come to nothing: the affection you grant for him who has no faithfulness, favor for him who has no gratefulness, knowledge for him who has no listening for it, and a secret YOU entrust to him who has no keeping for it.
236. Five (things) are impossible (to result from) five (things): advice from the envier is impossible, pity from the enemy is impossible, scacredness from the sinner is impossible, loyalty from the woman is impossible, and dignity from poverty is impossible.
237. Five (things) are as 1 (the author) say: the miser has no rest, the envier has no pleasure, the bored (person) has no faithfulness, the liar has no manhood, and the foolish (person) does not become master.
238. Five (persons) do not sleep: he who plans to shed blood, the owner of many properties, he who says falsity and slander against people to obtain a transient thing of the world, he who is fascinated by many properties (while) he has no property, and he who loves a dear (person) and expects his parting.
239. Whoever has no admonjsher from him, and a deterrent fropi his own self, and he has no guide to fellow enables his enemy to his neck.
240. No person perishes because of consultation.
241. Making a compliment to people is one third of intellect.
242. (It is an act) of modesty to greet him whom you meet.
243. Reminding someone of a favor demolishes the favor.
244. The favor is that which is by one’s own initiative, as for what you give after asking you match it with what he gives faom his face.
245. The best alms is to cool a very thirsty liver.
246. He whose two days are equal then he is deceived, and he whose day on which he,aives is better than his yesterday which departed from him then he is happy.
247. The believer complies (with someone’s moods) and does not dispute.
248. Whoever does not look for his own defect his defect lasts, and he whose defect lasts then death is good for him.
249. Wk?ever commits a sin without intention is worthy of forgiveness.
250. To fear (Allah) is the inheritance of science and science is the rays of knowledge and heart of faith, and whoever is deprived of fear does not become a scient who ist even he Splits perception in the ambiguous (matters) of science.
251. He Who answers all that he is asked, surely is mad.
252. Whoever abuses men, his manhood is in vain.
253. Do not look for (the defects of) men so as not to become without a friend.
254. Whoever does not accept (anything) from his friend but to prefer him to himself, his wrath lasts.
255. Enough for the fear of Allah is knowledge and enough for self conceit is ignorance.
This is the end of what is Possible for me to collect and choose of his masterpieces and comprehensive Words. May Allah grant me success to inform the gentle reader a bout a priceless treasure of wise sayings.
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Author: Shaykh Muhammad al-Hussein al-Mudaffar
