If you want to take care of the need of your believing...

If you want to take care of the need of your believing Brother according to the way of (‘a), be informed that they (‘a) have said, ‘Taking care of someone’s need is done through different ways: either minimizing it so it will get maximized, or hastening it so that it will bring happiness, or keeping it as a secret so it will come out into the open.’ ( Tuhaf al-`Uqul , p. 403, in almost the same wording). If these issues are not combined, taking care of the need cannot be accomplished; rather, it…