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Therefore, get benefitted by the admonition (of Allah) & get trained & chastised with the civility (decorum) of those pious.

(تحف العقول ص254) Imam Sajjad wrote in a letter to Mohammed lbne Muslim azzahari one of the court scholars of that age: Allah took a committment from the scholars in his book, where in, He said 'manifest them to the people & do not hide them (the facts of the Holy Books).

[^4] And know it, that the least & minimum of that You hide & the lowest (degree) of weight of responsibility which you will carry (on this way) is that you calmed down & soothed up the fear & harassment of the tyrant & (paved & planned) made the way of his error & enticement, easy for him by your getting closer to him. Is it not that by their inviting you they wish to make you like axis of a water mill, the pivot & center of their oppressions & get those things managed through you?

And make you a bridge to (safely) cross over & avoid their nuisances & evils, & make you a stair towards their deviations & aberrations, a caller & inviter towards their way of enticement & error i & the traverser of their way & make the people doubtful about the scholars through yourself. And attract the hearts of the ignorant public towards themselves through you.

The work which they get from you is neither accessible to the most expert of their ministers & nor their most powerful & energetic co-workers & helpers. So how little is it that they give you for the worth of what they take from you & how worthless is that which they flourish for you as compared to what they ruin for you? So see into your soul & think about yourself because no one else will see to it & think about it.

(You are a responsible person & will be brought to account & undergo question on the resurrection day). [^5] 4- فی کتاب له الی محمد ابن مسلم الزَّهري...