Four Instances with A Quick Chastisement

There are four things for which there will be a quick chastisement. The chastisement for one who does you evil, although you did him well; the chastisement of one whom you did not oppress, but he oppresses you; the…

O Ali! Four issues are the quickest in punishment: to recompense the favor with mistreatment, to be hostile with one who is not hostile to you; to break the faith of the party who keeps up his faith; and to rupture the…