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“Abu al-Hassan, al-Awwal (a.s.), has said, ‘Help descends on a people proportionate to their needs. A guest comes to a people but he comes with his sustenance in his lap.’”

Forgive your brother for his sins.Cover up and hide his imperfections.Calmly bear the accusations of the foolsAnd leave to time their declamations.Be noble and do not respondAnd entrust all oppressors to the Reckoner!”

Prophet (S) said, “Do good to all people whether they deserve it or not. If the one to whom you do good does not deserve it, you deserve to do good yourself.”

“A man once asked abu al-Hassan, the 1st (a.s.), when he was performing Tawaf (walking seven times around the Ka‘bah), ‘Tell me about generosity.’ The Imam replied, ‘Your question has two sides. If you are asking about a generous creature, the answer is that a generous creature is one who pays what Allah has made obligatory on him to pay. If you are asking about the generosity of the Creator, then the answer is that the Creator is generous when He gives you something, and He is generous if He denies you something; if He gives you something, it does not belong to you; and if He denies you something, it does not belong to you.’”

A man asked Abu’l-Hasan, peace be upon him, while he was during the circling, so he said to him: Inform me about the munificent. He said: Indeed, to your speech are two indications. If you were to ask about the created, the munificent is, indeed, the one who fulfils what Allah has obliged upon him. If you were to ask about the Creator, He is the Munificent when He gives, and He is the Munificent when He prevents, because when He gives you, He gives you what is not yours, and when He prevents, He prevents you from what is not yours.

There are six forms of chivalry. Three of them are for when you are at home and three others are for when you are traveling. The three for when you are at home are: reciting the Honorable the Exalted God’s Book; building God’s mosques; and making friends for the sake of the Honorable the Exalted God. The three for when you are traveling are: to give others from your own travel provisions; being good-tempered and joking regarding things other than acts of disobedience.”

An Arabian came to the Prophet, Allah’s blessings be upon him and his Family, and said to him: Are you not the best of us, in terms of father and mother, the most generous among us in terms of progeny and our leader during the Jahiliya and Islam? Then the Prophet, Allah’s blessings be upon him and his Family, was angered and said: O Arabian, how many covers are before your tongue? He said: Two lips and teeth. Then the Prophet, Allah’s blessings be upon him and his Family, said: So, where there not in any of these two what repels the wandering of this tongue of yours? Verily, none has, indeed, been given anything in this life of his that is more harmful to him in his afterlife than the unrestraintness of his tongue. O Ali, stand up and cut his tongue! Then the people assumed that he will cut his tongue, but (instead) he gave him dirhams.