Imam Al-Sadiq

in religion, good estimation in living, and patience for misfortunes.(479)
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 (al- 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 He 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- Sadiq) 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
Hatam al- Ta'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 manners of the ignorant (person) are: the answer before he hears, the opposition
before he understands, 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.