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[shiaat]

Love of this world corrupts the intellect, preoccupies the heart from listening to [words of] wisdom and leads to a painful chastisement [in the Hereafter].

- Imam Ali عليه السلام

[shiaat]

Narrator says I heard Abu ‘Abd Allah (a) saying, ‘If you can remain unknown, then do so. Therewill be nothing wrong if people will not praise you. There is nothing wrong for you if people censure you if you are praiseworthy before Allah.’

The Imam (a) said, ‘My father Amir al-Mu’minin, Ali ibn abu Talib (a) has said, “There is nothing good in life except for twokinds of people: a man who every day increases his good deeds and a man who every day remedies a destructive deed with repentance. How can repentance be of any benefit for him?

ByAllah, if he would perform a Sajdah (prostration) for such a lengthof time that his neck severs off of his body still, Allah, the MostBlessed, the Most High, will not accept his repentance withouthis acknowledgement of the Wilayah (Divine Authority) of our Ahl al-Bayt. You must know thatwhoever recognizes our rights can have hope for rewardsbecause of us. He agrees, for his survival, to half of a one timemeal every day, and with that which provides him covering for his privacy, his or her head, and with it, by Allah, they live infear and apprehension and love to agree with this much as their share from the world and this is how Allah, the Majestic, the Glorious, has described them,

‘. . . who bring what is brought tothem and whose hearts are afraid of their return to their Lord.’(23:60)

Then he (a) said: ‘What is that which they would be bringing? By Allah! They would be bringing with them the obedience, the love and the Wilayah, and they would be fearful during that. Their fear would not be the fear of doubt, but they would be fearing that perhaps they have been deficient (muqassireen) in our love and our obedience’

Al Kafi, vol 2, p 251, h 15;

Tafsir al Burhan, vol 5, p 342, h 7.