قَالَ أَبُو عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) يَا مُفَضَّلُ إِذَا أَرَدْتَ أَنْ تَعْلَمَ إِلَى خَيْرٍ يَصِيرُ الرَّجُلُ أَمْ إِلَى شَرٍّ انْظُرْ أَيْنَ يَضَعُ مَعْرُوفَهُ فَإِنْ كَانَ يَضَعُ مَعْرُوفَهُ عِنْدَ أَهْلِهِ فَاعْلَمْ أَنَّهُ يَصِيرُ إِلَى خَيْرٍ وَ إِنْ كَانَ يَضَعُ مَعْرُوفَهُ عِنْدَ غَيْرِ أَهْلِهِ فَاعْلَمْ أَنَّهُ لَيْسَ لَهُ فِي الْآخِرَةِ مِنْ خَلَاقٍ .
Translation
A number of our companions, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad Bin Isa, from Muhammad Bin Sinan, from Mufazzal Bin Umar who said, ‘Abu Abdullah<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘O Mufazzal! Whenever you want to know whether the man is going towards the goodness or towards the evil, look at where he places his act of kindness. So if he was doing his act of kindness with the one who was deserving of it, so know that he is going towards the goodness, but if he were to extend his act of kindness with other than its deserving one, so know that there is nothing for him in the Hereafter from the Creator’.
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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