Reconcile the quarreling parties and do not backbite each other.

Reconcile the quarreling parties and do not backbite each other. Exchange visits, cherish each other, and do favors to each other. Meet each other and exchange conversations. Do not hide (malice or other affairs) from one another. Beware of disagreement. Beware of abandoning each other, for I have heard Abu Abdillah (peace be upon him) saying: "By God I swear, I disavow and curse one of the two Shiites who leave one another out of disagreement.

In most cases, I curse both of them." Muattib said: "May God make me your sacrifice. You may curse the wrong party, why is then the wronged party cursed, too?" The Imam (peace be upon him) answered: "The wronged party is cursed because he does not call the other party to reconciliation." The Imam then added: "I heard my father saying: If two of our adherents -Shias- disagree and one of them transcends the other, the wronged party should come to the other and confess that he was wrong, so that their disagreement will come to an end.

God the Blessed the Exalted is surely fair judge; He will surely judge for the good of the right party." Do not debase or leave the poor adherents of Mohammed's family (peace be upon them). Treat them kindly and give them from the right of God that He has made incumbent in your properties. Do them favors. Do not take the family of Mohammed (peace be upon them) as means by which you collect earnings.

I heard Abu Abdillah (peace be upon him) saying: "People have taken three different courses in following us. Some people have followed us and expected our Relief for the purpose that they may obtain worldly pleasures. They have declared their adherence to us and repeated our words, but they have omitted abiding by our deeds. God will take them to Hell in hoards. Some people declared their adherence to us, listened to our words, and showed no negligence in carrying out our orders.

All that has been purposed for gaining the (worldly) donations of people. God will fill in their bellies with fire and will impose upon them starvation and thirst. Some people have declared their adherence to us, retained our wording, carried out our instructions, and have not dissented from our deeds. Those are from us and we are from them." Do not leave regarding the family of Mohammed (peace be upon them) out of your riches.

The rich ones should pay in proportion to their wealth and the poor in proportion to their poverty.