قَالَ أَمِيرُ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ ( عليه السلام ) لَنْ يَرْغَبَ الْمَرْءُ عَنْ عَشِيرَتِهِ وَ إِنْ كَانَ ذَا مَالٍ وَ وَلَدٍ وَ عَنْ مَوَدَّتِهِمْ وَ كَرَامَتِهِمْ وَ دِفَاعِهِمْ بِأَيْدِيهِمْ وَ أَلْسِنَتِهِمْ هُمْ أَشَدُّ النَّاسِ حِيطَةً مِنْ وَرَائِهِ وَ أَعْطَفُهُمْ عَلَيْهِ وَ أَلَمُّهُمْ لِشَعَثِهِ إِنْ أَصَابَتْهُ مُصِيبَةٌ أَوْ نَزَلَ بِهِ بَعْضُ مَكَارِهِ الْأُمُورِ وَ مَنْ يَقْبِضْ يَدَهُ عَنْ عَشِيرَتِهِ فَإِنَّمَا يَقْبِضُ عَنْهُمْ يَداً وَاحِدَةً وَ تُقْبَضُ عَنْهُ مِنْهُمْ أَيْدِي كَثِيرَةٌ وَ مَنْ يُلِنْ حَاشِيَتَهُ يَعْرِفْ صَدِيقُهُ مِنْهُ الْمَوَدَّةَ وَ مَنْ بَسَطَ يَدَهُ بِالْمَعْرُوفِ إِذَا وَجَدَهُ يُخْلِفِ اللَّهُ لَهُ مَا أَنْفَقَ فِي دُنْيَاهُ وَ يُضَاعِفْ لَهُ فِي آخِرَتِهِ وَ لِسَانُ الصِّدْقِ لِلْمَرْءِ يَجْعَلُهُ اللَّهُ فِي النَّاسِ خَيْراً مِنَ الْمَالِ يَأْكُلُهُ وَ يُوَرِّثُهُ لَا يَزْدَادَنَّ أَحَدُكُمْ كِبْراً وَ عِظَماً فِي نَفْسِهِ وَ نَأْياً عَنْ عَشِيرَتِهِ إِنْ كَانَ مُوسِراً فِي الْمَالِ وَ لَا يَزْدَادَنَّ أَحَدُكُمْ فِي أَخِيهِ زُهْداً وَ لَا مِنْهُ بُعْداً إِذَا لَمْ يَرَ مِنْهُ مُرُوَّةً وَ كَانَ مُعْوِزاً فِي الْمَالِ وَ لَا يَغْفُلُ أَحَدُكُمْ عَنِ الْقَرَابَةِ بِهَا الْخَصَاصَةُ أَنْ يَسُدَّهَا بِمَا لَا يَنْفَعُهُ إِنْ أَمْسَكَهُ وَ لَا يَضُرُّهُ إِنِ اسْتَهْلَكَهُ .
Translation
Muhammad Bin Yahya, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad Bin Isa, from Usman Bin Isa, from Yahya, (It has been narrated) from Abu Abdullah<sup style="font-weight: normal">asws</sup> having said: ‘Amir Al-Momineen<sup style="font-weight: normal">asws</sup> said: ‘The person should never turn away from his clan even if he was with wealth and children, and away from their cordiality, and their honour, and their defending (him) by their hands and their tongues. They would be the most intense of the people to watch out for him from behind him and the most compassionate upon him to escort him if a difficulty were to hit him, or if one of the abhorrences of his matters were to descend upon him. The one who withholds his hand from his claim, so rather he would be withholding one hand from them, and there would be withheld from him, a lot of hands, and the one who is soft with his inner circle would recognise the cordiality from his friends; and the one who extends his hand with the goodness when he finds it, Allah<sup style="font-weight: normal">azwj</sup> would Replace it for him whatever he spends regarding his world, and He<sup style="font-weight: normal">azwj</sup> would Multiply it for him in his Hereafter. And a truthful tongue of a person, Allah<sup style="font-weight: normal">azwj</sup> Allah<sup style="font-weight: normal">azwj</sup> Makes it for him among the people is better than the wealth he consumes and he inherits. Not one of you should exceed in arrogance and greatness regarding himself and distance himself from his clan even if he was affluent regarding the wealth; and not one of you should exceed in ascetism regarding his brother, nor be remote from him when he does not see magnanimity from him, and he was needy regarding the wealth; and not one of you should be oblivious from the relatives. With it (the kinship) is the speciality, if one was to cut it what would not benefit him if he were to withhold it, nor would it harm him if he were to consume it’.
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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