سَمِعْتُ أَبَا عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) يَقُولُ اتَّقُوا اللَّهَ وَ صُونُوا دِينَكُمْ بِالْوَرَعِ وَ قَوُّوهُ بِالتَّقِيَّةِ وَ الِاسْتِغْنَاءِ بِاللَّهِ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ إِنَّهُ مَنْ خَضَعَ لِصَاحِبِ سُلْطَانٍ وَ لِمَنْ يُخَالِفُهُ عَلَى دِينِهِ طَلَباً لِمَا فِي يَدَيْهِ مِنْ دُنْيَاهُ أَخْمَلَهُ اللَّهُ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ وَ مَقَّتَهُ عَلَيْهِ وَ وَكَلَهُ إِلَيْهِ فَإِنْ هُوَ غَلَبَ عَلَى شَيْءٍ مِنْ دُنْيَاهُ فَصَارَ إِلَيْهِ مِنْهُ شَيْءٌ نَزَعَ اللَّهُ جَلَّ وَ عَزَّ اسْمُهُ الْبَرَكَةَ مِنْهُ وَ لَمْ يَأْجُرْهُ عَلَى شَيْءٍ يُنْفِقُهُ فِي حَجٍّ وَ لَا عِتْقِ [رَقَبَةٍ] وَ لَا بِرٍّ .
Translation
A number of our companions, from Sahl Bin Ziyad, from Ibn Mahboub, from Hadeed who said, ‘I heard Abu Abdullah<sup>asws</sup> saying: ‘Fear Allah<sup>azwj</sup>! Maintain your Religion with the piety, and strengthen it with the dissimulation and the self-sufficiency with Allah<sup>azwj</sup> Mighty and Majestic. The one who humbles himself in the company of the Sultan (ruling authority) and to the ones who oppose him upon his Religion, seeking thereby what is in their hands for his worldly (needs), Allah<sup>azwj</sup> Mighty and Majestic would Suppress him and Detest him, and Leave him to himself. However, if he were to succeed (in securing) something for his world, and something from it (from the enimies of Ahl Al-Bayt<sup>asws</sup>) comes over to him, Allah<sup>azwj</sup>, Majestic and Mighty is His<sup>azwj</sup> Name, would Snatch the Blessings from it, and would not Recompense him upon anything he spends upon regarding a Hajj, nor freeing of a neck, nor a righteous deed’.
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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