قَالَ لِي أَبُو عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) يَا عَبْدَ الْعَزِيزِ إِنَّ الْإِيمَانَ عَشْرُ دَرَجَاتٍ بِمَنْزِلَةِ السُّلَّمِ يُصْعَدُ مِنْهُ مِرْقَاةً بَعْدَ مِرْقَاةٍ فَلَا يَقُولَنَّ صَاحِبُ الِاثْنَيْنِ لِصَاحِبِ الْوَاحِدِ لَسْتَ عَلَى شَيْءٍ حَتَّى يَنْتَهِيَ إِلَى الْعَاشِرِ فَلَا تُسْقِطْ مَنْ هُوَ دُونَكَ فَيُسْقِطَكَ مَنْ هُوَ فَوْقَكَ وَ إِذَا رَأَيْتَ مَنْ هُوَ أَسْفَلُ مِنْكَ بِدَرَجَةٍ فَارْفَعْهُ إِلَيْكَ بِرِفْقٍ وَ لَا تَحْمِلَنَّ عَلَيْهِ مَا لَا يُطِيقُ فَتَكْسِرَهُ فَإِنَّ مَنْ كَسَرَ مُؤْمِناً فَعَلَيْهِ جَبْرُهُ .
Translation
Muhammad Bin Yahya, from Muhammad Bin Ahmad, from one of his companions, from Al Hassan Bin Ali Bin Abu Usman, from Muhamad Bin Usman, from Muhammad Bin Hammad Al Khazzaz, from Abdul Aziz Al Qarataysi who said, ‘Abu Abdullah<sup>asws</sup> said to me: ‘O Abdul Aziz! The <span class="iTxt">Emān</span> is of ten levels at the status of the staircase. One would climb from it, a step after a step. So let not the one on the second step say to the one who is on the first, ‘You are not upon anything’, until he ends up at the tenth. So do not drop the one who is below you, so the one who is above you would drop (you). And when you see the one who is lower than you by a level, so raise him to you by kindness, but do not burden upon him what he cannot endure, so you would break him, for the one who breaks a <span class="iTxt">Momin</span>, so upon him its consequences (blame)’.
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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