Years come upon them...

Years come upon them, perishing them, and plagues kill them, and differing scatter them. Our -asws Shia is the one who does not bark like the barking of the dog, and he does not covet like the greed of the crow, nor does he ask our -asws enemies and even if he dies of hunger’.

So when shall I seek these ones?’ He -asws said: ‘In the outskirts of the land. They are the ones of basic (standards of) living. Their dwellings are temporary (keep changing). If they are present, they are not recognised, and when they are absent, they are not missed, and from the death they are not panicking, and in their graves they are visiting (each other); and if a need one comes over to them they are merciful to him. Their hearts are never differing and even if their houses are different’.

Then he -asws said: ‘Rasool-Allah -saww said: ‘I -saww am the city and Ali -asws is the gate; and the one who claims that he can enter the city without (going through) its door has lied, and the one who claims that he loves me -saww while he hates Ali -asws ’ is a lair.

Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father, from Al Qasim Bin Muhammad Al Isbahany, from Suleyman Bin Dawood Al Minqary, from Sufyan Bin Uyayna, from Mis’ar Bin Kidam who said, ‘I heard Abu Ja’far -asws saying: ‘The sitting – I -asws sit with one I -asws trust with, is more strengthening regarding myself -asws than working for a year’.