Imam As-Sadiq (peace be upon him) said...

Imam As-Sadiq (peace be upon him) said: Enjoining good and forbidding evil should be practiced with a faithful believer that he would learn a lesson, or an ignorant that he would earn. Enjoining good and forbidding evil become surely worthless when they are applied with the powerful tyrants.

Imam As-Sadiq (peace be upon him) said: Those who enjoin good and forbid evil should enjoy three characters: they should be aware of the matters that they enjoin and the matters that they forbid, fair in the matters that they enjoin and the matters that they forbid, and lenient in the matters that they enjoin and the matters that they forbid.

Imam As-Sadiq (peace be upon him) said: He who suffers a misfortune due to obtruding upon an unjust ruler will be neither rewarded nor endowed with patience. Imam As-Sadiq (peace be upon him) said: As some people showed ingratitude for God's graces, He changed the graces into crises. As other people showed steadfastness against the misfortunes that inflicted them, God changed the misfortunes into graces.

Imam As-Sadiq (peace be upon him) said: The prosperity of coexistence and association are three thirds: two thirds are acumen and one is overlooking. Imam As-Sadiq (peace be upon him) said: Revenging on the pauper is extremely ugly. Imam As-Sadiq (peace be upon him) was asked about personality, he answered: Personality stands for that God should not see you in situations against which He warned, and miss you in situations of which He ordered.

Imam As-Sadiq (peace be upon him) said: Thank him who did you favor, and confer upon him who thanked you. Graces that are shown gratitide will not removed while those that are shown ingratitude will not persist. Thanks increase the graces and saves against poverty. Imam As-Sadiq (peace be upon him) said: To miss a need is better than asking it from other than its people. Bad mannerism in a misfortune is more catastrophic than the misfortune itself. 27.

As a man asked him a short item of instruction that collects the welfare of this world and the world to come, the Imam, peace be upon him, said: Never tell untruths. Imam As-Sadiq (peace be upon him) was asked about eloqunece. He answered: Eloquence is to express the idea in as few as possible words. The eloquent is that who attains his demand in the least effort. Imam As-Sadiq (peace be upon him) said: Debt is grief at night and humility in day.