جعفر بن محمد الصادق عليه السلام

“Whoever commits a sin and laughs will enter the Fire (of Hell).”

“They have not died except due to God's wrath. Had they died one by one, they would have buried each other.” The disciples said: “O' Spirit of God! Ask God to revive them so that they could tell us what they did so that we can avoid those deeds.” Jesus (a.s) then called upon God. A voice from Heaven said: “Call them.” At nighttime Jesus (a.s) went on top of a hill and said: “O' residents of this village!” Someone said: “O' Spirit of God! Yes.” Jesus (a.s) said: “Woe to you! What were your deeds?” The man said: “Worship of false gods and love for this world, little fear of God, high ambitions, being delved in ignorance, and pleasure-seeking.” Jesus (a.s) asked: “How did you love this world?” He said: “Just as a child loves his mother, and we got happy whenever it turned towards us and cried whenever it turned away from us.” Jesus (a.s) asked: “How did you worship false gods?” He said: “We followed those who committed sins.” Jesus (a.s) asked: “What was your final end?” He said: “One night we were all healthy and went to sleep. But in the morning we were all in 'Havieh'“. Jesus (a.s) asked: “What is 'Havieh'. He replied: “It is Sejjeen”. Jesus (a.s) asked: “What is Sejjeen?” He replied: “It is mountains full of blazing fire that will burn us until the Resurrection Day.” Jesus (a.s) asked: “What did you say?” He said: We said: “Return us to the world and we will be abstinent there. But we were told that we were liars.” Jesus (a.s) said: “Woe to you. How come you only talk with me?” He said: “O' spirit of God! They have fiery mouthpieces put on them and are in the hands of angry and stern angels. I am among them, but I am not one of them. When the punishment descended upon them, it overtook me too. I am now hanging over Hell by a very fine piece of thread, and do not know whether I will fall into Hell, or be saved from it.” Jesus (a.s) faced his disciples and said: “O' Friends of God! Eating bread and coarse salt, and sleeping in trash yards is the utmost prosperity if it is combined with the prosperity of this world and the Hereafter.”

“Whoever does not withstand the people's cruelty is not grateful for blessings.”

“A man went to see God's Prophet (a.s). The Prophet asked him: “When did you suffer from “Umm Maldam”? The man asked: “What is Umm Maldam?” The Prophet (a.s) said: “It is a sort of headache in this part of the head and a rise in temperature in the head and the chest.” The man said: “O' Prophet of God! I have never suffered from this pain.” He then turned around and left. The Prophet told his companions: “Whoever wants to look at one of the people of Hell can look at this man who turned around. The similitude of a hypocrite is like that of a tree trunk which someone owns and wants to use in a part of his building. However it is not useful in that part of the building, and he tries to use it elsewhere in the building. But it is not useful there either. Thus he finally burns it in fire. And the similitude of a believer is like a newly- grown plant. The wind will blow it to either side, but it returns to its original place. That is the wind will agitate it until the time comes for it to be picked.”

“Good temper will melt your sins just as the sun melts frozen goods. Bad temper will spoil your deeds just as vinegar spoils honey.”

“Accept apologies, whether or not they are right. I will not intercede on behalf of anyone who does not accept an apology.”

“It is incumbent upon those who are in power whom the people obey and can distinguish between the right and the wrong. It is not incumbent upon the weak people who do not know how to approach this issue, and might say wrong things about what is right. That is why God says: “Let there arise out of you a band of people inviting to all that is good, enjoining the right, and forbidding what is wrong. [The Holy Quran: Al-i-Imran 3:104]. But this is especial, and not general. As God the Almighty said: “Of the people of Moses there is a chapter who guide and do justice in the light of truth.” [The Holy Quran: Araf 7:159]. He has not said it is for all the people of Moses or all his tribe to enjoin the right and forbid the wrong, even though there were many groups there. And by people it is meant more than one, as God the Almighty said: “Abraham was indeed a model, devoutly obedient to God.” [The Holy Quran: Nahl 16:120]. In this verse it is said that he was obedient to God. Therefore it is not incumbent upon anyone who does not have any power, helpers or followers at peace time.”

“Indeed the heart strives to seek God and gets calm when it finds Him.” Then Imam Sadiq (a.s) recited: “Those whom God (in His Plan) willeth to guide, - He openeth their breast to Islam, those whom He willeth to leave straying, -He maketh their breast close and constricted, as if they had to climb up to the skies” [The Holy Quran: Anam 6:125]

“A believer will even remember a sin committed forty or so years ago, and ask God for forgiveness. God will forgive him.”

“On the Resurrection Day believers will be asked to watch the people, and find out whoever has somehow helped them by feeding them, or giving them something to drink, etc. They will then be allowed to take the hands of all the people who somehow helped them and take them all to Heaven. Then on the way to Heaven the angels will ask them where they are going. God the Almighty will then say: “Grant my servants permission to pass.” And they will do so. This is the reason a believer is called “Mumin” which in Arabic means “One who grants immunity” near God and God will accept it.”

“Whenever you repent, God the Almighty will be pleased just as you get happy when you find something that you have lost.”

“The sign of being eager to attain divine rewards for the Hereafter is not being inclined to worldly material things in this life. Beware that even if one is abstinent, his not being inclined to material things will not cause a reduction of what material goods of this world God has allocated to him. In the same manner, the greed of a greedy man to obtain more in this world will not cause an increase in his material goods. Therefore only those who get deprived of the benefits of the Hereafter are at a loss.”

“O' Prophet of God! What is knowledge?” The Prophet (a.s) said: “Trying to hear.” He asked: “What else?” The Prophet (a.s) said: “Listening.” He asked: “What else?” The Prophet (a.s) said: “Learning.” He asked “What else?” The Prophet (a.s) said: “Practicing what is learned.” He asked: “What else?” The Prophet (a.s) said: “Teaching it to other people.”

“There is a reality for every right affair, and there is a light for every right affair. Therefore act according to the Quran and abandon whatever is opposed to the traditions of God's Prophet (a.s).”

“When Jesus, the son of Mary, may God's blessings be upon him passed by a group of people who were crying, he asked: “What has made them cry?” They said: “Their sins.” He said: “Stop crying, you will be forgiven.”

“O' Muhammad! Your Lord sends blessings and says: Treat My servants with patience.”

“I do not like anyone who is constantly healthy in this world, and never suffers from any calamities.”

“Being good with neighbors is a cause of extended life and expansion of buildings.”

“I seek refuge in God from a bad neighbor who watches your house carefully. He will be upset if something good happens to you, and will be pleased if something bad happens to you.”

“If there is bad omen in anything, it is the tongue.”