111. Imam As-Sadiq (‘as) said:
He who enjoys veracity, pudency, good mannerism, and gratitude is a faithful believer even if he is fully sinful.
112. Imam As-Sadiq (‘as) said:
You will not be faithful believer before you become fearful and hopeful. You will not be fearful and hopeful before you work for what you fear and hope.
113. Imam As-Sadiq (‘as) said:
Faith is not identified through outer appearances and hopes. Faith is that which is pure in the hearts and assured by deeds.
114. Imam As-Sadiq (‘as) said:
If a man is more than thirty-year-old, he is middle-aged. If he is more than forty-year-old, he is old man.
115. Imam As-Sadiq (‘as) said:
Regarding monotheism, people are of three classes: believer, denier, and anthropomorphist. The denier is wrong, the believer is faithful, and the anthropomorphist is polytheist.
116. Imam As-Sadiq (‘as) said:
Faith is declaration, practice, and intent. Islam is declaration and practice.
117. Imam As-Sadiq (‘as) said:
Never break the respect between your friends and you. If respect is broken between you, pudency will vanish. Your amiability will endure as long as there is respect.
118. Imam As-Sadiq (‘as) said:
He who puts his friend to shame will be deprived of his relationship with him. He who grieves his friend will lose respect.
119. Imam As-Sadiq (‘as) answered those who asked him about his seclusion in Wadi Aqeeq (a place, or with one of his wives whose name was Aqeeq):
If you taste the good flavor of seclusion, you will feel an aversion for even yourself. At least, seclusion saves you from treating people punctiliously.
120. Imam As-Sadiq (‘as) said:
Whenever God opens a door to the worldly pleasures, He will open two to acquisitiveness.
121. Imam As-Sadiq (‘as) said:
The believer is strange in this world. He should not feel worry of its humility and should not compete with its people for gaining its honor.
122. Imam As-Sadiq (‘as) was asked about the path of rest. He answered:
The path of rest is the opposite of whims.
The Imam (‘as) then was asked when would the servants find rest. He answered:
The servants (of God) will find rest on the first day in Paradise.
123. Imam As-Sadiq (‘as) said:
God does not gather good-looking, understandability, and good mannerism for the hypocrites and the corruptive.
124. Imam As-Sadiq (‘as) said:
The flavor of water is life and the flavor of bread is power. The source of the physical weakness and power is the fats of the kidneys. The place of the mind is the brain while severity and tenderness are in the heart.
125. Imam As-Sadiq (‘as) said:
Envy is of two sorts: the seditious envy and the inadvertent envy. As an example of the latter sort is the angels’ saying to God, when He decided to choose a deputy on earth,
Are you going to appoint one who will commit corruption and bloodshed therein, even though we (are the only ones who) commemorate Your Name and glorify You? (2:30).
This means that they suggested that the deputy should be one of them. This suggestion was not out of seditious, rejecting, and denial envy to Adam. As an example of the previous sort of envy, which causes atheism and polytheism, is the Shaytan’s envying Adam (‘as) and refuting God’s order when he rejected to prostrate (himself before Adam).
126. Imam As-Sadiq (‘as) said:
Regarding the concept of fatalism and indeterminism, people opt three different opinions. Those who claim that everything is optional are belittling God’s predominance. They are wrong. Those who claim that God dragged the servants to disobey Him and charged people with what is over their capability are misjudging Him. They are wrong, too. There are also those who claim that God charged the servants with what they can do and did not oblige them to do what they cannot; hence, the servants thank Him when they do good and seek His forgiveness when they do wrong. These are surely the proper Muslims.
127. Imam As-Sadiq (‘as) said:
Hasty walking removes the believers’ brightness and extinguishes their illumination.
128. Imam As-Sadiq (‘as) said:
God surely hates the oppressive wealthy man.
129. Imam As-Sadiq (‘as) said:
Rage eliminates the intelligence of the wise. He who cannot control his rage will not be able to control his mind.
130. Al-Fudhayl Ibn Ayadh related: Abu Abdillah (As-Sadiq) (‘as) asked me, ‘Do you know who is the avaricious?’ ‘The avaricious is the niggardly,’ I answered. He (‘as) said:
The avaricious is eviler than the niggardly. The niggardly withholds what is in his hand, while the avaricious resents people to gain something and withholds what is in his hand. He wishes he would gain whatever is there in people’s possession whether legally or illegally. Moreover, the avaricious is never satisfied and never profits by what God gives.
131. Imam As-Sadiq (‘as) said:
The niggardly is that who gains wealth illegally and spends it unsuitably.
132. Imam As-Sadiq (‘as) asked one of his adherents about the reason why one of his friends had been complaining against him. The man said, ‘He complained just because I had demanded him with my rights wholly.’
The Imam (‘as) became angry as he said:
Do you think that demanding with the whole rights is not offense? Have you seen those people about whom God said,
They fear the bad judgment (13:21).
Do they fear that their Lord may oppress them? No, at all. They fear that their Lord will demand with the rights perfectly. Hence, He named it, ‘the bad judgment’. Surely, demanding with the whole rights is offense.
133. Imam As-Sadiq (‘as) said:
Muchness of the ill-gotten properties will eradicate the earnings.
134. Imam As-Sadiq (‘as) said:
Misdemeanor is embittered life.
135. Imam As-Sadiq (‘as) said:
Faith is one rank higher than Islam and God-fearing is one rank higher than faith. However, they are parts of one another. It happens that a believer speaks some bad wording of which God did not threaten Hell. God says:
If you avoid violating the grand sins that which has been prohibited, your sins will be forgiven and you will be admitted into an exalted dwelling. (4:31).
It also happens that another believer, who is more quick-witted, is more sinful. However, both are believers. Conviction is one rank higher than God-fearing. Conviction is the most difficult thing ever given to people. Some people are more certain than others. Some are more steadfast against misfortunes, poverty, ailment, and fear than others.