What are the effects of good speech in this world and the hereafter
الامام السجاد علیه السلام: اَلْقَوْلُ الْحَسَنُ يُثْرِى الْمالَ وَ يُنْمِى الرِّزْقَ وَ يُنْسِئُ فِى الاَْجَلِ وَ يُحَبِّبُ اِلَى الاَْهْلِ وَ يُدْخِلُ الْجَنَّةَ.
Imam al-Sajjad (as): Good speech increases one’s wealth, Increases one’s sustenance, and delays one’s death. It makes (its teller) beloved among his family and admits him to the Paradise.(Al-Amālī, p. 2, session one.)
Exposition:
(Abu Hamza quotes from Imam Sajjad (as) that he said: Good speech increases one’s wealth, increases one’s sustenance and develops it. It delays one’s death. It makes one beloved among his relatives and family. These are all the worldly benefits of good speech and decent words, which is a speech that is according to religious standards, like the name of God, and the Prophet and the hereafter and the world and hadith and religious and felicitous life and that which is uttered affably; decent speech should necessarily be uttered affably and eloquently. These are its worldly benefits. And its heavenly benefit is that it leads one to the Paradise.
Who is the most just and the wisest person
قال رسول الله صلی الله علیه و آله و سلم: وأعدل الناس من رضى للناس ما یرضی لنفسه وکره لهم ما یکره لنفسه رسول الله وأکیس الناس من کان أشد ذکر للموت وأغبط الناس من کان تحت التراب قد أمن العقاب ویرجوالثواب
The Prophet Muhammad (S): The most just person is the one who likes for people what he likes for himself, and does not like for people what he does not like for himself. And the wisest person is the one who recalls death the most, and the most enjoying person is the one who is secure from punishment in the grave, and is hopeful of being rewarded. (Man lā Yaḥdurhu-l Faqih, vol.4, p.395)
Exposition:
The Imam says the most just person among people is the one who wants for people the same thing that he wants for himself, he who does not like for people what he does not like for himself. The wisest person is the one who recalls death more. The one who neglects death is insensible and unwise. Who is the most enjoying person? He is not the one who enjoys material and worldly privileges. Rather, he is the one who is, in the grave – where all of us will necessarily go someday – secure from divine punishment, and hopes for divine reward and grace.
what is the status os truseeship in Islam
الامام علی علیه السلام: یا کمیل إفهم واعلم أنا لا نرخص فی ترک أداء الامانة لاحد من الخلق. فمن روى عنی فی ذلک رخصة فقد أبطل وأثم وجزاؤه النار بما کذب، اقسم لسمعت رسول الله صلى الله علیه وآله یقول لی قبل وفاته بساعة مرارا ثلاثا: یا أبا الحسن أد [ اء ] الامانة إلى البر والفاجر فیما جل وقل حتى الخیط والمخیط.
Imam Ali (as): O Kumail! know and understand that we do not allow anyone to refrain from returning what he has been entrusted with. Thus, anyone who quotes permission from me in this regard is lying, has committed a sin, and his punishment is hellfire.
b God I heard the Prophet (s) say to me three times just before his departure, O Abul Hassan! Return what has been entrusted to you _ whether great or small, even a needle and thread_ to the owner, whether he is virtuous or impious, or even an infidel. (Tuhaf al -Uqul, p.175)
Exposition:
Trusteeship is very important in islam. Even if one has been entrusted with a cheap item, he must attempt to preserve it and return it to its owner _whether the owner is a believer, impious os even an infidel. However, it must be noted that trust is not just in financial matters. Rather, our responsibilities for others secrets that we know are all trusts and must be kept safe.
what are the importance and the effects of secrecy
الامام علی علیه السلام: مَنْ وَقَفَ نَفْسَهُ مَوْقِفَ اَلتُّهَمَهِ فَلاَ یَلُومَنَّ مَنْ أَسَاءَ بِهِ اَلظَّنَّ وَ مَنْ کَتَمَ سِرَّهُ کَانَتِ اَلْخِیَرَهُ فِی یَدِهِ.
Imam Ali (as): One who put himself in a place of accusation must blame no one save himself; and one who keeps his own secrects will have the command of the affairs. (al-Amali,p.304, session fifty)
Exposition:
When you stay somwhere that is naturally a place of accusation, do not blame the one who suspects you. Avoid the palce of accusation. If you do not observe this instrution and someone sees you in that pace, he will suspect you.
The second sentence: someone who keeps his own secrets, he will have the command of his own affairs. When you say a secret to someone, you cannot control it anymore. He will say it to a third person who will tell the fourth one. If you want to keep a secret, you must conceal it.
According to another tradition, “The one who deserves most to be accused is the one who associates himself with accused people". This is another guiding rule. All poeple must observe this rule. Associating with one who is accused of a wrong deed or a corruption causes one to be accused.
what is the criterion for being considered a believer
رسول الله صلی الله علیه و آله و سلم: لا تَنظُروا إلی کثرَةِ صَلاتِهِم وَ صَومِهِم، وَ کثرَةِ الحَجِّ، وَ المَعروفِ، وَ طَنطَنَتِهِم بِاللَّیلِ، وَلکنِ انظُروا إلی صِدقِ الحَدیثِ وَ أداءِ الأمانَةِ.
The Prophet Muhammad (S): Do not look at people’s ample prayers, fasting, hajj, good deeds and vigil; rather, look at their truthfulness and fulfilment of trust. (al-Amali, p.303, session fifty)
Exposition:
The Prophet (s) says, “do not look at people’s amlpe prayers and fasting". That is, one must not consider this as a complete criterion to discern an individual as a believer or a righteous person. Are these not criteria? Is it the same whether these items are present or absent? Of course not. Undoubtedly, they are criteria; but, they are not ultimate ones. Indeed, they are not sufficient. It is not enough for someone to say many prayers, to say recommended prayers, to perform recommended fasting, and the like. They are not enough to prove someone as a righteous believer.
Someone may go to Mecca every year, do good deeds, pay alms, hold mourning ceremonies. Other hear his voice of worship in midnight or his voice while reciting the Quran during the day time. Do not look at these. What is, then needed to consider one as a believer or a rightteous person?
The Prophet says, “These two thing are the criteria: truthfulness and trusteeship". These two features are signs of one’s faith. Of course it is not enough to have these two characteristics when one does not say prayers, does not fast, or does not go to (hajj) pilgrimage. Both the above practices and the two characteristics are necessary.
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