Many persons get nothing out of their fasts but hunger and
thirst; many more get nothing out of their night prayers but exertions and
sleepless nights. Wise are praiseworthy even if they do not fast and do not
sleep during the nights.
Defend your faith in God with the help of charity. Protect
your wealth with the aid of Zakaat. Let the prayer guard you from calamities
and disasters.
Remember that there are three kinds of people, one of those
is learned people who are highly versed in the ethics of truth and philosophy
of religions; second is the kind who are acquiring the above knowledge and the
third is that class of people who are uneducated. They follow every pretender
and accept every slogan. Remember, Kumail, that knowledge is better than and
superior to wealth, because knowledge protects you while you have to guard wealth.;
because wealth decreases with spending and knowledge increases the more you
make use of it; because what you get through wealth disappears as soon as
wealth disappears, but what you achieve through knowledge remains even after.
Knowledge is power and it can command obedience and following.
Aman is valued through his sayings. He who does not know his
own worth is ruined.
Do not be among those people who want to gain hereafter
without working for it, who rely on high hopes and keep on postponing
repentance, who talk like pious persons but run after vicious pleasures. Do not
be among those who advises to such good deeds that they themselves refrain from;
who appreciate good people, but do not follow their way of life.; who hate bad
and vicious people, but follow their way of life, who, on account of their excessive
sins, hate death, but do not give the sinful way of life, who faced with misfortunes,
turn to God and keep on beseeching Him for relief, and when relieved , they are
deceived by comfortable conditions and forget God and forsake prayer. Who are
quick to pass judgement against others but never judge their own vicious deeds,
who are not afraid of their Lord, but fear men in power?
Everyone who is born must die, and once dead as if he had
never come into existence.
One who adopts patience will never be deprived of success which
may take long time to reach him.
He who agrees with the actions of a group of persons is as
though he joins them in their action. Everyone who joins in wrong commits two sins:
one sin for committing the wrong and other for agreeing with it.
Adhere to contracts and entrust their fulfilment to steadfast
persons.
Admonish your brother by good behavior towards him, and ward
off his evil by favoring him.
One who frequent places of ill repute has no right to
complain against a man who talk evil of him.
Whoever obtains authority (usually) adopts partiality.
He who acts solely according to his own opinion gets ruined,
and who consults other people shares in their understand.
He who guards his secrets retains control in his own hands.
Poverty is the worst form of death.
He who fulfils the rights of a man who does not fulfils his,
(is as though) he worships him.
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