When kinship is cut off, wealth shall be put in the hands of the wicked.

When kinship is cut off, wealth shall be put in the hands of the wicked. When they do not enjoin good and forbid the wrong, and do not follow the gracious ones of my progeny, God will make their evildoers dominant, and then their good-doers pray, but they shall be not responded to.”[^5] Imam Sadiq (AS) has been reported as saying: “…the sin that alter blessings is aggression, the sin that causes regret is homicide, the sin that causes the sending down of wrath is oppression, the sin that violates protections is drinking of wine, the sin that withholds sustenance is adultery, the sin that hastens perishment is cutting off kinship, and the sin that rejects supplications and darkens the space is the undutifulness to parents.” ^6 One of the other positive effects of the fear of God is that one, who is fearful of God, does his best to be a model and foremost in religious, social, political, scientific, cultural, and moral scenes.

This is the same feature about which God has said: “And the foremost are the foremost, these are they who are drawn nigh (to Allah), in the gardens of bliss.” [^7] The true example of “the foremost” is Imam Ali (AS) who has been preferred to all others (after the Prophet) in every goodness, and so he has been called “the Master of the Pious”. One of the other effects of being fearful of God is “weeping” which has been frequently mentioned in the Quranic verses and traditions.

In this relation, God Almighty says: “Say: believe in it or believe not; surely those, who are given the knowledge before it, fall down on their faces, making obeisance when it is recited to them. And they say: Glory be to our Lord! Most surely, the promise of our Lord was to be fulfilled.

And they fall down on their faces weeping, and it adds to their humility.” [^8] Elsewhere in the Holy Quran, God says: “And mention Musa in the Book; Surely he was one purified, and he was an apostle, a prophet…. And mention Isma’eel in (his) promise, and he was an apostle, a prophet…. And mention Idris in the Book; surely he was a truthful man, a prophet, And We raised him high in Heaven.