Imam Al-Sadiq

His Commandments to His Companions:
After the Basmala(367): Then after this, ask Allah your Lord for health, cleave to meekness,
solemnity, and calmness. Cleave to modesty and refrain from what the righteous had refrained
before you. Fear Allah, and prevent your tongue (from saying anything) but from the good.
Be careful not to sharpen your tongues with false witness, false accusation, iniquity, and
aggression. Because if you prevent your tongues from (saying) what Allah hates, this will be
better for you with your Lord than that for which you sharpen your tongues. Because
sharpening the tongue (to utter) what Allah abhors and what He prevents (you) from causes
disobedience for the servant with Allah, and hatred from Him. So, Allah will bring on him
deafness, dumbness, and blindness on the Day of Judgment so, you become as Allah has said:
"deaf, dumb (and) blind, so they do not understand." Namely, they will not utter, nor will they
be allowed to apologize. Keep silent (from everything) except that which Allah avails you
with in your next life and reward you for Implore Allah very much, for Allah likes His
believing servants to Implore Him, and He has promised His believing servants to accept
(their supplication), and Allah will turn the du'a' of the believers into acts to increase (their
rank) in Paradise So, remember Allah as far as possible at every hour of the hours of day and
night, for Allah has ordered (you) to remember Him very much, and Allah remembers him
who remembers Him of the believers Know that anyone of the believing servants remembers
Allah, Allah remembers him with good So, do your best to obey Allah. That is because
nothing of good is obtained from Allah but through obeying Him and refraining from what He
has prohibited in the Koran, whether they are open or secret He said in His Book and His
Words are true: "And abandon open and secret sin."(368) And know that Allah has prohibited
what He has ordered you to refrain from Do not follow your desires and your ideas so that
you go astray, for the most astray one of people in going with Allah is he who follows his
desire and his idea without guidance from Allah. Do good to yourselves as far as possible, for
'if you do good, you will do good for your own souls, and if you do evil, it shall be for them.'
know that Allah does not make a servant of His servants safe till he (the servant) is pleased
with what Allah has done to him.
'Attend constantly to prayers and to the middle prayer and stand up truly obedient to Allah,' as
Allah, in His Book, had ordered the believer before you.
Beware of might and glory, for glory is the attribute of Allah, the Great and Almighty. So,
whoever shares Allah His attribute, Allah breaks him and humiliates him on the Day of
judgment. Be careful not to wrong each other, for it (wrong) is not among the traits of the
righteous, and for whoever wrongs the (others), Allah makes his wrong against him, the help
of Allah will be to him who is wronged, whomever Allah helps is victorious and gets victory
from Allah. Be careful not to envy each other, for the source of unbelief was envy. Be careful
not to help each other against the oppressed Muslim, so he invokes Allah against you and his
invocation is accepted against you. That is because our father (i.e. grandfather) the Prophet of
Allah, may Allah bless him and his family, said: 'Indeed, the supplication of the oppressed