"The believers have four signs: good humor, tactfulness, kind heartedness and openhandedness"

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“Be careful to have truthful friends and try to obtain them, for they are your support when you are in welfare, and your advocator when you have misfortune.”

“Whenever the mind of a person is rectified, he becomes strong and powerful in appearance.”

“Seventy thousand angels worship near the grave of Imām Husayn . The prayer of one of them, is equal to a thousand prayers of mankind. The reward of this prayer is for the visitors of Imām Husayn's grave. The curse of God, His angels and all mankind is forever upon the killers of Imām Husayn .”

“A sin that accelerates death and annihilation of man is breaking off paying visits to one's own relatives.”

“Then I asked him about his act. He said: 'perhaps, you are Ja'far b. Mohammed?' 'Yes,' I said. He said to me:'What does your noble origin avail you while you are ignorant?' 'Which verse of the Quran am I ignorant at?' I asked. He said these Words of Allah, the Great and Almighty:Whoever brings a good deed, he shall have ten like it, and whoever brings and evil deed he shall be recompensed only with the like of it. 'When I stole the two loaves of bread, they were two evil deeds. And When I stole the two pomegranates, they were two evil deeds, too. So these are four evil deeds. When I gave each one of them as alms, Allah has subtracted 4 evil deeds from 40 good deeds. So, I have 36 good deeds.' I said: 'May your mother loses you! It is you who are ignorant at the Book of Allah. Have you not heard that Allah said: accepts- from the pious only. When you stole the two loaves of bread, they were two evil deeds. And when you stole the two pomegranates, they were two evil deeds, too. And when you gave them to other than their owner without the permission of their owner, you have added four evil deeds to the four evil deeds, and you have not added four evil deeds to forty good deeds. So, he began looking at me. Then I left him and went away.”

“Being cheerful and affable with people is by itself half of wisdom.”

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