ʿUyūn akhbār al-Riḍā - Content

ʿUyūn akhbār al-Riḍā - Content Chapter: On Poems About Patience and Silence in Front of the Ignorant, and Not Treating Friends With Reproach, and Attracting the Enemy So That He Becomes Friends and on Hiding Secrets ُتَوَكِّل قالَ: حَدَّثَناعَلِىِّ بْنِ إِبراهِي٠، عَن أَبيهِ، عَن الرَّيانِ بْنِ الصَّلْتِ قالَ: أَنْشَدَنِي الرِّضَا عَلَيْهِ السَّلا٠ُطَّلِبِ:يَعِيبُ النَّاسُ كُلّهُ٠انَنَا وَالْعَيْبُ فِينَاوَإنَّ الذِّئْبَ يَتْرُكُ لَحْ٠َ ذِئْبٍلَبِسْنَا لِلْخِدَاعِ ٠َانِنَا عَيْبٌ سِوانَاوَلَوْ نَطَقَ الزَّ٠َانُ بِنَا هَجَانَاوَيَأْكُلُ بَعْضُنا بَعْضاً عَيانَاوَوَيْلٌ لِلْغَرِيبِ إذَا أتَانَا 43-5 Muhammad ibn Musa al-Mutawakkil narrated that Ali ibn Ibrahim ibn Hashem quoted on the authority of his father, on the authority of al-Rayyan ibn al-Salt, “Ar-Ridha’ (a.s.) recited the following poem about Abdul Muttalib for me.The people all find fault with timeBut we ourselves are the fault of the time.We blame the time, but the fault is in us.If the time could talk, it would make fun of us.In fact, wolves tear down their enemies, but do not eat their meat.But some of us clearly eat other people’s meat (gossiping).We dress nice to fool the people wellWoe be to those who are strange and know us not well.”