Thus if they find someone worthy...
Thus if they find someone worthy, they speak to him a little and if they don’t find any worthy man they keep their tongues locked and hide their keys. There is a fixed and hard tie on their mouths, more stable than the mountains. And nothing could be taken from them. They are treasurers of knowledge, mines of forbearance and wisdom and followers of prophets, the truthful ones, the martyrs and the righteous.
They are so clever that when the hypocrites see them, they consider them dumb, blind and stupid while the fact is that there is no dumbness, blindness and stupidity among them. Indeed, they are most intelligent, eloquent, forbearing, wise, pious, chosen by Allah. Humility to the Almighty Allah has made them quiet and due to the fear of the Almighty and to maintain the divine secrets they have kept their tongues closed.
How eager I am to be with them and to mingle with them, and how much their absence has made me sad, their company will remove my…