Shaykh Sadooq says...

Shaykh Sadooq says: It is narrated that: One dirham spent in Hajj expenses is better than two million dirhams spent in some other way in the way of Allah, the Mighty and Sublime.

(Qur’an, Surah Baqarah 2:245) The Imam said: Kindness to Imam.[^7] In the same book it is quoted from Basharat Mustafa through the author’s own chain of narrators from Imam Ja’far Sadiq (as) that he said: Take out the share of Aale Muhammad from your wealth. One who is rich should pay according to his capacity and one who is poor should pay as per his poverty.

Thus one who wants the Almighty Allah to fulfill his most important desire should do favor to Aale Muhammad and their Shias before the need arises for them.[^8] In Biharul Anwar and Burhan it is narrated from Tafseer Ayyashi through the author’s own chain of narrators from Mufaddal bin Umar that he said: I came to His Eminence, Abu Abdullah Imam Sadiq (as) one day with something I had brought for the Imam and I placed it before him. He asked: What is it?

I said: It is a gift from one of your slaves. The Imam said: O Mufaddal, I accept, not because I need it; and I don’t accept it, except that through it purification is effected. Then His Eminence (aj) said: I heard my father say: On Judgment Day Allah will not look at one who spends a year without spending anything, more or less for us. Then he said: O Mufaddal, it is an obligation that the Almighty Allah has laid down on our Shias in His Book.