اتَّقُوا عَلَى دِينِكُمْ فَاحْجُبُوهُ بِالتَّقِيَّةِ فَإِنَّهُ لَا إِيمَانَ لِمَنْ لَا تَقِيَّةَ لَهُ إِنَّمَا أَنْتُمْ فِي النَّاسِ كَالنَّحْلِ فِي الطَّيْرِ لَوْ أَنَّ الطَّيْرَ تَعْلَمُ مَا فِي أَجْوَافِ النَّحْلِ مَا بَقِيَ مِنْهَا شَيْءٌ إِلَّا أَكَلَتْهُ وَ لَوْ أَنَّ النَّاسَ عَلِمُوا مَا فِي أَجْوَافِكُمْ أَنَّكُمْ تُحِبُّونَّا أَهْلَ الْبَيْتِ لَأَكَلُوكُمْ بِأَلْسِنَتِهِمْ وَ لَنَحَلُوكُمْ فِي السِّرِّ وَ الْعَلَانِيَةِ رَحِمَ اللَّهُ عَبْداً مِنْكُمْ كَانَ عَلَى وَلَايَتِنَا .
Translation
Abu Ali Al Ashary, from Al hassan Bin Ali Al Kufy, from Al Abbas Bin Aamir, from Jabir Al Makouf, from Abdullah Bin Abu Yafour, (It has been narrated) from Abu Abdullah<sup>asws</sup> having said: ‘Be fearful upon your Religion, and veil upon it with the dissimulation (<span class="iTxt">Taqiyya</span>), for there is no Eman for the one who has not dissimulation (<span class="iTxt">Taqiyya</span>) for him. But rather, you all are among the people like the bees are among the birds. If the birds come to know what is in the interior of the bees, nothing would remain from it except that they would eat it up, and if the people come to know what is in your insides, that you are loving us<sup>asws</sup>, the People<sup>asws</sup> of the Household, they would eat you up with their tongues, and destroy you in private as well as public. May Allah<sup>azwj</sup> be Merciful upon a servant from you all who was upon our<sup>asws</sup> Wilayah’.
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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