THE WISDOM OF IMAM AL-KADHIM (A.S.)

THE WISDOM OF IMAM AL-KADHIM (A.S.)

 

1.   Anyone who acknowledges Allah should not complain when his earnings are delayed and should not suspect the acts of Allah

2.   The believer is like the two pans of a balance – the more faith he enjoys the most misfortunes he faces.

3.   Try to divide your time into four parts:  The first should be dedicated to (secret) supplication to Allah, the second to seeking earnings, the third to associating with the friends and the trusty people who show you your defects and treat you sincerely, and the fourth to your legal pleasures.  Through this part, you can manage the other three parts.

4.     Do not think of poverty or long age.  He who thinks of poverty will be stingy and he who thinks of long age will be acquisitive.  Offer a share of worldly pleasures to yourselves by enjoying moderately the legal pleasures that do not injure your personalities.  Make sure pleasures help you fulfill your religious duties perfectly.  It is said that, “As for those who neglect the legal worldly pleasures completely and adhere to the religious duties or neglect the religious duties and adhere to the worldly affairs, they are not from us

5.   In the time of the just ruler, you should thank and he will gain rewards.  In the time of the unjust ruler, you should tolerate and he will burden the punishment of the sin.

6.   The best kind of alms-giving is to help the weak.

7.   For the steadfast, the misfortune is one, while it is two for the impatient.

8.   Only the sufferers of injustice can realize its intensity.