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Therefore, lock the door of your tongue from what there is no escape for you from it, especially when you cannot find someone rightful for the speech and an assistance in discussion for Allah -azwj and regarding Allah -azwj .
وَ كَانَ رَبِيعُ بْنُ خُثَيْمٍ يَضَعُ قِرْطَاساً بَيْنَ يَدَيْهِ وَ يَكْتُبُ مَا يَتَكَلَّمُ ثُمَّ يُحَاسِبُ نَفْسَهُ فِي عَشِيَّتِهِ مَا لَهُ وَ مَا عَلَيْهِ وَ يَقُولُ أَوْهِ نَجَا الصَّامِتُونَ وَ بَقِينَا And Rabie Bin Khuseym used to place a paper in front of him and write whatever he had spoken, then he would reckon himself during his evening, what was for him and what was against him, and he would say, ‘Aah, the silent ones will achieve salvation, and we have remained!’ وَ كَانَ بَعْضُ أَصْحَابِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص يَضَعُ حَصَاةً فِي فَمِهِ فَإِذَا أَرَادَ أَنْ يَتَكَلَّمَ بِمَا عَلِمَ أَنَّهُ لِلَّهِ وَ فِي اللَّهِ وَ لِوَجْهِ اللَّهِ أَخْرَجَهَا وَ إِنَّ كَثِيراً مِنَ الصَّحَابَةِ كَانُوا يَتَنَفَّسُونَ تَنَفُّسَ الْغَرْقَى وَ يَتَكَلَّمُونَ شِبْهَ الْمَرْضَى وَ إِنَّمَا سَبَبُ هَلَاكِ الْخَلْقِ وَ نَجَاتِهِمْ الْكَلَامُ وَ الصَّمْتُ And one of the companions of Rasool-Allah -saww would place pebbles in his mouth.
Whenever he wanted to talk with what he knew it was for Allah -azwj and regarding Allah -azwj and for the Face of Allah -azwj , he would extract them, and many of the companion were breathing the breath of drowning and were speaking resembling the sick, and rather, a cause of the destruction of the people and their salvation is (due to the) speech and the silence.
فَطُوبَى لِمَنْ رُزِقَ مَعْرِفَةَ عَيْبِ الْكَلَامِ وَ صَوَابِهِ وَ عَلِمَ الصَّمْتَ وَ فَوَائِدَهُ فَإِنَ ذَلِكَ مِنْ أَخْلَاقِ الْأَنْبِيَاءِ وَ شِعَارِ الْأَصْفِيَاءِ Beatitude is for the one Graced the understanding of the faults of talking and its correctness, and knows the silence and its benefits, for that is from the morals of the Prophets -as and slogans of the elites.
وَ مَنْ عَلِمَ قَدْرَ الْكَلَامِ أَحْسَنَ صُحْبَةَ الصَّمْتِ وَ مَنْ أَشْرَفَ عَلَى مَا فِي لَطَائِفِ الصَّمْتِ وَ ائْتَمَنَهُ عَلَى خَزَائِنِهِ كَانَ كَلَامُهُ وَ صَمْتُهُ كُلُّهُ عِبَادَةً وَ لَا يَطَّلِعُ عَلَى عِبَادِتِهِ إِلَّا المَلِكُ الْجَبَّارُ.
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