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21. Imam Ali (peace be upon him) said:
\nYou should gather in your heart the need for people and the
\ndispensing with them. You may have the need for people through
\nshowing good wording and good humor with them, and you may have
\nthe dispensing with them through the candor of your honor and the
\ncontinuity of your power.<\/p>\n
22. Imam Ali (peace be upon him) said:
\nDo not be angry and do not enrage others. Exchange greetings and use
\ngood wording.<\/p>\n
23. Imam Ali (peace be upon him) said:
\nThe generous becomes lenient when his clemency is beseeched, but
\nthe mean becomes more severe when he is treated kindly.<\/p>\n
24. Imam Ali (peace be upon him) said:
\nMay I tell you of the true scholar? He is that who does not permit
\npeople to act disobediently to God and does not make them despair of
\nHis mercy, does not make them feel secure from God\u2019s retribution and
\ndoes not substitute anything for the Quran. Adoration without
\ncomprehension, knowledge without pondering (over things), and
\nrecitation without understanding\u2014all these are valueless.<\/p>\n
25. Imam Ali (peace be upon him) said:
\nWhen God will gather people \u2013for judgment- a caller will declare: O
\npeople, today, the most favorable to God will be the most fearful of
\nHim. The most preferable to God will be the best doers of good acts.
\nThe closest to God will be the most desirous for gaining what He has in
\npossession through acting. The most honorable to God will be the
\nmost God-fearing.<\/p>\n
26. Imam Ali (peace be upon him) said:
\nI wonder at those who protect themselves against having harmful food,
\nhow do they not protect themselves from committing sins so that they
\nwill be saved from Hell? I wonder at those who purchase slaves with
\ntheir money, why do they not purchase the free through doing favors
\nto them? Good and evil cannot be recognized with any means other
\nthan people. If you want to recognize good, you should do it so as to
\nknow its people, and if you want to recognize evil, you should do it so
\nas to know its people.<\/p>\n
27. Imam Ali (peace be upon him) said:
\nFor you, I am only afraid of two things\u2014prolonged hope and
\npursuance of passions. The prolonged hope makes you forget the life
\nto come, and the pursuance of passions precludes you from the right.<\/p>\n
28. A man from Basra asked Imam Ali (peace be upon him) about the
\nqualifications of friends. He answered:
\nThere are two kinds of friends\u2014friends of confidence and friends of
\ngrimace. The friends of confidence are the refuge, the wing, the folks,
\nand the wealth. If you confide in your friend, you should provide your
\nwealth and help to him. You should also befriend him who befriends him and antagonize him who antagonizes him. You should keep his
\nsecrets and defects and publicize his good conducts. You should know,
\nO asker, that the friends of confidence are as scanty as red sulfur.
\nRegarding the friends of grimace, you gain from them only your
\npleasure; therefore, you should not deprive them of your pleasure. Do
\nnot ask them for any further thing. Give them happy mien and good
\nwording as long as they give you their happy mien and good wording.<\/p>\n
29. Imam Ali (peace be upon him) said:
\nDo not befriend the enemy of your friend lest you become the enemy of
\nyour friend.<\/p>\n
30. Imam Ali (peace be upon him) said:
\nDo not desert your friend due to suspicion and do not leave him before
\nyou blame him.<\/p>\n
31. Imam Ali (peace be upon him) said:
\nA Muslim should avoid befriending three categories of people: the
\nsinful, the foolish, and the liars. The sinful shows you his evildoings as
\ngood deeds, wants you to be like him, and does not help you in the
\naffairs of your religion and your life to come. It is rude and tough to
\nbefriend such an individual whose visit to you brings you dishonor.
\nThe foolish does not advise you of good and is not expected to save you
\nfrom any problem even if he does his best. Moreover, he may harm you
\nas he intends to benefit you. His death is better than his life, his
\nsilence is better than his words, and his remoteness is better than his
\ncloseness. The liar will deprive you of any pleasant life with him. He
\ntells others of your conducts and relates to you the others\u2019 conducts.
\nWhenever he finishes from telling a lie, he invents another to the
\ndegree that even his true sayings cannot be believed. He sows enmity
\nbetween people to plant malice in their hearts. Fear God and consider
\nfor yourselves.<\/p>\n
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