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Selected Narrations – Al-Shia https://en.al-shia.org The al-Shia Scientific, Cultural, and Doctrinal Website Fri, 19 Jul 2024 13:44:33 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 https://en.al-shia.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/cropped-cropped-FIcon-32x32.png Selected Narrations – Al-Shia https://en.al-shia.org 32 32 The Last Will of Imam Ali Ibn Abi Talib (5) https://en.al-shia.org/the-last-will-of-imam-ali-ibn-abi-talib-5/ https://en.al-shia.org/the-last-will-of-imam-ali-ibn-abi-talib-5/#respond Mon, 13 Feb 2023 11:30:57 +0000 https://en.al-shia.org/?p=6924 In this part of the article titled “The Last Will of Imam Ali Ibn Abi Talib”, we shall continue with the last will of the Commander of the Faithful to his sons.

Do good to your brother when he is bent upon doing harm to you. When he ignores or declines to recognize the kinship, befriend him, go to his help and try to maintain relations. If he is miserly with you and refuses to help you, be generous with him and support him financially. If he is cruel to you, be kind and considerate with him. If he harms you accept his excuses. Behave with him as if he is a master and you are a slave, and he is a benefactor and you are a beneficiary.

But be careful that you do not thus behave with undeserving and mean persons. Do not develop a friendship with the enemy of your friend, otherwise, your friend will turn into an enemy. Advise your friend sincerely and to the best of your ability even though he may not like it. Keep complete control over your temper and anger because I never found anything more beneficial in the end and producing more good results than such control.

Be mild, pleasant and lenient with him who is harsh, gross, and strict with you; gradually he will turn to your behaviour. Grant favour and be considerate to your enemy because you will thus gain either one of the two kinds of victories: (one rising above your enemy, the other of reducing the intensity of his hostility).

If you want to cease relations with your friend, then do not break off totally, let your heart retain some consideration for him so that you will still have some regard for him if he comes back to you. Do not disappoint a person who holds a good opinion of you and do not make him change his opinion.

Under the impression that you, as a friend, can behave as you like, do not violate the rights of your friend because, when he is deprived of his rights and privileges, he will no more remain your friend.