اسْتَعِيذُوا بِاللَّهِ مِنْ شِرَارِ نِسَائِكُمْ وَ كُونُوا مِنْ خِيَارِهِنَّ عَلَى حَذَرٍ وَ لَا تُطِيعُوهُنَّ فِي الْمَعْرُوفِ فَيَدْعُونَكُمْ إِلَى الْمُنْكَرِ وَ قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ( صلى الله عليه وآله ) النِّسَاءُ لَا يُشَاوَرْنَ فِي النَّجْوَى وَ لَا يُطَعْنَ فِي ذَوِي الْقُرْبَى إِنَّ الْمَرْأَةَ إِذَا أَسَنَّتْ ذَهَبَ خَيْرُ شَطْرَيْهَا وَ بَقِيَ شَرُّهُمَا وَ ذَلِكَ أَنَّهُ يَعْقِمُ رَحِمُهَا وَ يَسُوءُ خُلُقُهَا وَ يَحْتَدُّ لِسَانُهَا وَ إِنَّ الرَّجُلَ إِذَا أَسَنَّ ذَهَبَ شَرُّ شَطْرَيْهِ وَ بَقِيَ خَيْرُهُمَا وَ ذَلِكَ أَنَّهُ يَئُوبُ عَقْلُهُ وَ يَسْتَحْكِمُ رَأْيُهُ وَ يَحْسُنُ خُلُقُهُ .
Translation
Ali, from his father, from Amro Bin Usman, from one of his companions, (It has been narrated) from Abu Abdullah<sup>asws</sup> having said: ‘Seek Refuge with Allah<sup>azwj</sup> from the evils ones of your womenfolk, and become cautious from their good ones, and do not obey them regarding the good, so they would invite you to the evil’. And he<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘Rasool-Allah<sup>saww</sup> said: ‘The women should not be consulted in the secret counsels, and should not be obeyed among the near relatives. The woman, when she becomes aged, both halves of the goodness goes away and there remain both of her evil halves, and that is her womb becomes barren, and her manners become evil, and her tongue rages; and the man, when he becomes aged, his two halves of evil go away, and there remains his two good halves, and that is his intellect gets refined, and his view becomes wiser, and his manners improve’.
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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