The favor is not perfected but with three (things)...

The favor is not perfected but with three (things): by doing it quickly, debasing it, and hiding it. Not everyone who sees a thing is able to do it, not everyone who is able to do a thing is successful in doing it, and not everyone who is successful in it. when intention, ability, success, and righteousness come together, happiness occurs. Four things of which little is much: Fire, enmity, poverty, and illness. Twenty- day- friendship is a relationship.

Whoever does not feel shame during absence and does not repent during old age and does not fear Allah during loneliness, then he has no good. Whoever honors you, then honor him. And whoever scorns you, then honor yourself from him. To forbid generosity is mistrust in Allah. Verily, the family of a person are his prisoners, so whomever is bestowed upon him, then he should be generous toward them, and if he does not (do that), that favor is about to disappear from him.

Three (things) with which Allah does not increase the Muslim person but glory: To forgive him who wrongs him; to give him who deprives him, to visit him who abandons him. When the believer becomes angry, his anger should not take him out of the truth; and when he becomes satisfied, his satisfaction should not bring him in falsehood. Friendship has five conditions. Whoever has them, then attribute him to it. Whoever has not them, then do not attribute him to any of it.

They are: the good of his friend should be his good, his inward thoughts for him should be like his openness, no money should change him against him, he should hold the view that he is worthy of all his friendship, and should not abandon him during misfortunes.’[1] The noble man should not turn up his nose at four (things): his standing from his sitting for his father, his service for his guest, taking care of his riding animal even if he has a hundred slaves, and his service for his teacher.

(Religious) scholars are the trustees of prophets unless they come to the doors of supreme rulers.[2] A man from the people of Iraq (ahl al- Sawâd) went to him (alSâdiq) frequently, then he broke away from him, So he (the Imam) asked some people about him. To detract from him, one of them said:” He is 1 Noor al- Awar by al- Shiblanjr: 141. 2 Lawlqih al- Anwar by aI- Shi’a: 1/28.