قَالَ أَمِيرُ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ ( عليه السلام ) طُوبَى لِكُلِّ عَبْدٍ نُوَمَةٍ لَا يُؤْبَهُ لَهُ يَعْرِفُ النَّاسَ وَ لَا يَعْرِفُهُ النَّاسُ يَعْرِفُهُ اللَّهُ مِنْهُ بِرِضْوَانٍ أُولَئِكَ مَصَابِيحُ الْهُدَى يَنْجَلِي عَنْهُمْ كُلُّ فِتْنَةٍ مُظْلِمَةٍ وَ يُفْتَحُ لَهُمْ بَابُ كُلِّ رَحْمَةٍ لَيْسُوا بِالْبُذُرِ الْمَذَايِيعِ وَ لَا الْجُفَاةِ الْمُرَاءِينَ وَ قَالَ قُولُوا الْخَيْرَ تُعْرَفُوا بِهِ وَ اعْمَلُوا الْخَيْرَ تَكُونُوا مِنْ أَهْلِهِ وَ لَا تَكُونُوا عُجُلًا مَذَايِيعَ فَإِنَّ خِيَارَكُمُ الَّذِينَ إِذَا نُظِرَ إِلَيْهِمْ ذُكِرَ اللَّهُ وَ شِرَارُكُمُ الْمَشَّاءُونَ بِالنَّمِيمَةِ الْمُفَرِّقُونَ بَيْنَ الْأَحِبَّةِ الْمُبْتَغُونَ لِلْبُرَآءِ الْمَعَايِبَ .
Translation
Ali Bin Ibrahim, from Muhammad Bin Isa, from Yunus, from Abu Al Hassan Al Isbahany, (It has been narrated) from Abu Abdullah<sup>asws</sup> having said: ‘Amir Al-<span class="iTxt">Momin</span>een<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘Touba (a tree in Paradise) is for every obscure servant. It is irrelevant whether the people know him or they do not know him (famous or not). Allah<sup>azwj</sup> does Recognise him from them with Pleasure. They are the lanterns of guidance. Every dark strife brightens up from them, and the door of every Mercy opens up for them. They are neither with the broadcasting of the seeding (imparted knowledge), nor are they with the quarrelsome hypocrites’. And he<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘Speak well, you will be recognised by it, and do good works, you would become from its rightful ones, and do not become hasty broadcasters, for the best ones of you are those who whey they are looked at, Allah<sup>azwj</sup> is remembered; and the most evil ones of you are the slanderers with the gossip, the separators between the loved ones, the seekers of the faults of the righteous ones’.
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