And by his chain to Al-Baqir -asws having said...
And by his chain to Al-Baqir -asws having said: ‘One in whose presence his Momin brother is backbitten, so he helps him and assists him, Allah -azwj will Help him in the world and the Hereafter; and the one who does not help him and does not defend him while he is able upon helping him and assisting him, Allah -azwj will Drop him in the world and the Hereafter’’. وَ قَدْ رُوِيَ عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ص أَنَّهُ قَالَ: مَا النَّارُ فِي الْيُبْسِ بِأَسْرَعَ مِنَ الْغِيبَةِ فِي حَسَنَاتِ الْعَبْدِ.
And it is reported from the Prophet -saww having said: ‘The fire is not quicker into the dryness than the backbiting is in the good deeds of the servant’’. وَ ذَكَرَ قَوْلَهُ ص طُوبَى لِمَنْ شَغَلَهُ عَيْبُهُ عَنْ عُيُوبِ النَّاسِ وَ مَهْمَا وَجَدَ عَيْباً فَيَنْبَغِي أَنْ يَسْتَحْيِيَ أَنْ يَتْرُكَ نَفْسَهُ وَ يَذُمَّ غَيْرَهُ بَلْ يَنْبَغِي أَنْ يَعْلَمَ أَنَّ عَجْزَ غَيْرِهِ عَنْ نَفْسِهِ فِي التَّنَزُّهِ عَنْ ذَلِكَ الْعَيْبِ كَعَجْزِهِ إِنْ كَانَ ذَلِكَ عَيْباً.
And he mentioned his -saww words: ‘Beatitude is for the one whose own faults pre-occupy him from faulting the (other) people, and whoever were to find a fault, it is befitting that he is embarrassed from leaving himself and condemning others, but it is befitting that he knows that inability of others in being removed from that is like his own inability, if that were to be a fault (in the first place)’’.
وَ قَدْ رُوِيَ أَنَّ هِنْداً قَالَتْ لِلنَّبِيِّ ص إِنَّ أَبَا سُفْيَانَ رَجُلٌ شَحِيحٌ- لَا يُعْطِينِي مَا يَكْفِينِي أَنَا وَ وُلْدِي أَ فَآخُذُ مِنْ غَيْرِ عِلْمِهِ فَقَالَ خُذِي مَا يَكْفِيكِ وَ وُلْدَكِ بِالْمَعْرُوفِ فَذَكَرَتِ الشُّحَّ لَهَا وَ لِوُلْدِهَا وَ لَمْ يَزْجُرْهَا رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص إِذْ كَانَ قَصْدُهَا الِاسْتِفْتَاءَ. And it is reported that Hinda said to the Prophet -saww , ‘Abu Sufyan is a stingy man. He does not give me what suffices me and my children.
Can I take from without his knowledge?’ He -saww said: ‘Take what suffices you and your children with the moderation’. She mentioned of her and her children’s misery and Rasool-Allah -saww did not rebuke her when her purpose was the issuance of the verdict.
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