Do not give a promise humilliated by your little self-confidence...

Do not give a promise humilliated by your little self-confidence, and do not be deceived by the easy height if the slope is rough. Have mercy (on others) you will be pitied; say the good, you will be spoken well of; avoid backbiting because it is the foodstuff of the dogs of Hell. The elders should be kind to the young. He who preaches his brother in secret adorns him, while he who preaches his brother in publicness offends him.

You have to stick to the word of Right in time of contentedness and rage, and you have to stick to justice with regard to the friend and enemy. A hearer of backbiting is one of the backbiters. Backbiting is the toil of the helpless. Imam saw a person bickbiting another at the presence of his sonHasan and said: o’ my son, exalt your hearing to…