وَ قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ( صلى الله عليه وآله )...

And he -asws said: ‘Rasool-Allah -saww said: ‘The women should not be consulted in the secret counsels, and should not be obeyed among the near relatives.

The woman, when she becomes aged, both halves of the goodness goes away and there remain both of her evil halves, and that is her womb becomes barren, and her manners become evil, and her tongue rages; and the man, when he becomes aged, his two halves of evil go away, and there remains his two good halves, and that is his intellect gets refined, and his view becomes wiser, and his manners improve’.

[4] وقال (عليه السلام): الجمال في اللسان، والكمال في العقل، ولا يزال العقل والحمق تيغالبان على الرجل إلى ثماني عشرة سنة، فإذا بلغها غلب عليه أكثرهما فيه. And he -asws said: ‘The beauty is in the tongue, and the perfection is in the intellect; and the intellect and the stupidity do not cease to overcome each other upon the man up to the age of eighty (80) years. So, when he reaches it, the majority of the two which are within him, overcome him’.

[5] وقال (عليه السلام): يزيد عقل الرجل بعد الاربعين إلى خمسين وستين، ثم ينقص عقله بعد ذلك. And he -asws said : ‘The intellect of the man increases after (the age of) forty up to (the age of) sixty five, and his intellect reduces after that’. [6] ما: بإسناد أبي قتادة عن أبي عبد الله (عليه السلام) أنه قال: لست احب أن أرى الشاب منكم إلا غاديا في حالين: إما عالما أو متعلما فإن لم يفعل فرط فإن فرط ضيع، فإن ضيع أثم، وإن أثم سكن النار والذي بعث محمدا بالحق.

By a chain of Abu Qatada, ‘From Abu Abdullah -asws having said: ‘I don’t like to see a youth from you except if he is an early riser in two states – either as a teacher or as a student, for if he is not active, then his activity would be wasted, and if it is wasted, he would sin, and if he sins, he would dwell in the Fire, by the One Who Sent Muhammad -saww with the Truth’’.