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• Imam Jafar e Sadiq (a.s.) says, “ One person was brought back to life from the grave
by angels and told him ,’ We shall inflict on you a thousand blows of the whip of
Allah’s Punishment!’ The person said, ‘ I don’t have the strength to bear so much
flogging.’ The angels said, ‘ All right! We shall reduce one blow!’ He said, ‘ I don’t
have the strength to bear this severe punishment.’ In this way the angels kept
reducing the number of blows they wanted to give the person and he kept on peading
that he didn’t have sufficient strength to bear the flogging. In the end the angels said,
‘ Atleast, we shall flog you once!’ the man asked, ‘ You have not told me for what
fault of mine you want to punish me?’ The angels said,’ Once you had prayed
without doing the mandatory ablution and on another occasion you passed by an old
man who needed help, but you didn’t help him.’ Saying this the angels flogged him
once, The blow was so intense that a small fire started in the grave.”
• It is narrated from the Prophet of Allah (a.s.) that whosoever denies to fulfill the need
of a needy person, despite having the means to help him, his sin will be like the sin
of Ashari. Someone asked,’Who is Ashari ?’ The Prophet said, “ A sinner who is
cursed by Allah, the angels and all the creatures every day and night. One who is
accursed of Allah , can be helped by none.”
• Also the Prophet (a.s.) said, “ One who hides one fault of a momin, Allah will
overlook his seventy faults in the Hereafter.”
• The Prophet (a.s.) said that Allah will not Reward one who embezelled. Someone
asked, ‘ Who is an embezeller?’ The Prophet (a.s.) said, “ He is one who is miserly in
helping a brother momin.”
CENSURING, BELITTLING OR HARMING THE MOMINS
It is narrated from Imam Reza (a.s.) that there were four pious persons (momins) during
the period of the bani Israel. Three of them were one day having a tete a tete when the
fourth knocked at the door. The slave of the house came out. The momin asked him if his
lord was at home. When the slave replied in the negative, the momin went away. The
master asked the slave of the identity of the caller. The slave replied that it was so-and-so
and that he had told him that the master wasn’t home. The master and the other two
momins did not object to the slave’s act. The next day the momin visited the place when
the three of them were emerging from the house. He greeted them and said that he
visited the place the previous day too. The three of them laughed and didn’t even express
regrets for not being able to meet him. They then proceeded towards their farm. On the