Do not associate anything with Me -azwj and be cautious from Me -azwj ...

Do not associate anything with Me -azwj and be cautious from Me -azwj , and do not be deceived by the (good) health and do not be envious for the world is like a fleeting shadow, and what approaches it is like what has been left behind from it. So compete in the righteous deeds with your -as striving, and be with the truth wherever it may be even though you -as may be cut and burnt by the fire.

So do not disbelieve in Me -azwj after the understanding, and do not become of the ignorant ones, for one ends up with that to which one associates (an extract).

[6] عَلِيُّ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنِ ابْنِ أَبِي عُمَيْرٍ عَنْ عَمْرِو بْنِ أَبِي الْمِقْدَامِ قَالَ سَمِعْتُ أَبَا عَبْدِ اللَّهِ (عليه السلام) يَقُولُ خَرَجْتُ أَنَا وَ أَبِي حَتَّى إِذَا كُنَّا بَيْنَ الْقَبْرِ وَ الْمِنْبَرِ إِذَا هُوَ بِأُنَاسٍ مِنَ الشِّيعَةِ فَسَلَّمَ عَلَيْهِمْ ثُمَّ قَالَ إِنِّي وَ اللَّهِ لَأُحِبُّ رِيَاحَكُمْ وَ أَرْوَاحَكُمْ فَأَعِينُونِي عَلَى ذَلِكَ بِوَرَعٍ وَ اجْتِهَادٍ وَ اعْلَمُوا أَنَّ وَلَايَتَنَا لَا تُنَالُ إِلَّا بِالْوَرَعِ وَ الِاجْتِهَادِ وَ مَنِ ائْتَمَّ مِنْكُمْ بِعَبْدٍ فَلْيَعْمَلْ بِعَمَلِهِ أَنْتُمْ شِيعَةُ اللَّهِ وَ أَنْتُمْ أَنْصَارُ اللَّهِ وَ أَنْتُمُ السَّابِقُونَ الْأَوَّلُونَ وَ السَّابِقُونَ الْآخِرُونَ وَ السَّابِقُونَ فِي الدُّنْيَا وَ السَّابِقُونَ فِي الْآخِرَةِ إِلَى الْجَنَّةِ Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father, from Ibn Abu Umeyr, from Amro Bin Abu Al-Maqdaam who said: I heard Abu Abdullah -asws saying: ‘I -asws and my -asws father -asws went out until we -asws arrived in between the Grave and the Pulpit (of the Rasool Allah -saww ).

There was a group of Shites over there, so I -asws greeted them, and then said: ‘By Allah -azwj ! I -asws love your aromas, and your spirits, so help me -asws upon that by being pious and striving. And know that our -asws Wilayah cannot be achieved except by piety and the striving, and the one from among you who follows a servant (an Imam -asws ); he should emulate what he does.

You are the Shites of Allah -azwj , and you are the Helpers of Allah -azwj , and you are the foremost of the former ones, and the foremost of the later ones, and the foremost in the world, and the foremost in the Hereafter (and) to the Paradise.

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