The nearest of you to Allah is most helpful among you to His people?

The nearest of you to Allah is most helpful among you to His people? Did he not say? Who sleeps his night satiated while his neighbor is hungry is out of the covenant of Islam? Did your first Imam, Ali ibn Abi Talib, whom you pride on and follow, not say? Surely, every led one has a leader (imam) whom he follows, and from the light of whose knowledge he seeks light.

Surely, your Imam (Ali) has been satisfied from all his life with his two coarse garments, and from his food with his two loaves…by Allah, I have never hoarded from your world gold, nor have I saved from its booties anything… ….and if I wanted, I could…