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Imam al-Sadiq (AS) said, ‘Allah helps the believer as long as the believer helps his brother.

Imam Ali (AS) said, Contentment is the helper of poverty.

Imam Ali (AS) said, How good an assistant of piety hunger is!

Imam Ali (AS) said, What a good helper of worship night vigil is!

Imam Ali (AS) said, How good an aide of hope ambition is!

Imam Ali (AS) said, How good a supporter of supplication submissiveness!

Imam Ali (AS) said, ‘The best aid for supplication is humility.

Imam Ali (AS) said, How helpful to sins overeating is!

Imam Ali (AS) said, ‘Overeating is the greatest aid to acts of disobedience.

Imam Ali (AS) said, The best assistance for action is curtailing hopes.

Imam Ali (AS) said, Patience is an aide in every affair.

Imam Ali (AS) said, Following vain desire is indeed a good aide to Satan.

Imam Ali (AS) said, Espouse the renunciation of worldly pleasures, for indeed it helps the religion.

Imam Ali (AS) said, Good patience is an aide in every matter.

Imam Ali (AS) said, You must espouse piety, for indeed it is a helper of the faith and a trait of the sincere ones.

Imam Ali (AS) said, You should keep ties with brethren of purity, for they are an embellishment in times of ease and a support in [times of] tribulation.

The Prophet (SAWA) said, ‘The one who endeavours to help his brother and benefit him has the reward of the warriors in the way of Allah.

I heard Abu Abdillah, peace be upon him, say: "Allah helps His servants according to the measure of their intentions. He who has a wholesome intention receives full help from Allah, and he who has a deficient intention receives as much less."

Any believer who relieves a distress from another believer, Allah will relieve seventy distresses from him, of the distresses of the world and the distresses of the Day of Resurrection.He also said: One who brings ease to a believer in straitened circumstances, Allah will make easy for him the needs of the world and the hereafter; and one who hides the fault of a believer, Allah will conceal seventy faults that he leaves behind, in the world and in the hereafter.He also said: Indeed, Allah continues to aid a believer as long as he continues to aid his fellow believer; therefore, benefit from the exhortation and seek the good (of doing this).

“I heard Abu ‘Abdillah (a.s.) saying, ‘Any believer who relieves a believer from his hardships in a constraining condition Allah will make his (helper’s) needs easily met in this world and in the next.’ The Imam said, ‘Whoever provides cover for the private matters of a believer for which he is afraid, Allah will provide cover for his (helper’s) seventy private matters of this world and in the next life.’ The Imam said, ‘Allah supports a believer as long as he supports his believing brother (in belief). You must benefit from the good advice and be interested in good deeds.’”