قِيلَ لِأَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) إِنَّا نَدْخُلُ عَلَى أَخٍ لَنَا فِي بَيْتِ أَيْتَامٍ وَ مَعَهُمْ خَادِمٌ لَهُمْ فَنَقْعُدُ عَلَى بِسَاطِهِمْ وَ نَشْرَبُ مِنْ مَائِهِمْ وَ يَخْدُمُنَا خَادِمُهُمْ وَ رُبَّمَا طَعِمْنَا فِيهِ الطَّعَامَ مِنْ عِنْدِ صَاحِبِنَا وَ فِيهِ مِنْ طَعَامِهِمْ فَمَا تَرَى فِي ذَلِكَ فَقَالَ إِنْ كَانَ فِي دُخُولِكُمْ عَلَيْهِمْ مَنْفَعَةٌ لَهُمْ فَلَا بَأْسَ وَ إِنْ كَانَ فِيهِ ضَرَرٌ فَلَا وَ قَالَ ( عليه السلام ) بَلِ الْإِنْسانُ عَلى نَفْسِهِ بَصِيرَةٌ فَأَنْتُمْ لَا يَخْفَى عَلَيْكُمْ وَ قَدْ قَالَ اللَّهُ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ وَ إِنْ تُخالِطُوهُمْ فَإِخْوانُكُمْ فِي الدِّينِ وَ اللَّهُ يَعْلَمُ الْمُفْسِدَ مِنَ الْمُصْلِحِ .
Translation
Muhammad Bin Yahya, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad, from Ali Bin Al hakam, from Abdullah Bin Yahya Al kahily who said, ‘I was said to Abu Abdullah<sup>asws</sup>, ‘We tend to go over to a brother of ours in a house of orphans, and with them is a servant of their. So we sit on their furnishings, and we drink from their water, and their servant serves us, and something we eat the meal therein with our companions, and therein is from their food (as well). So what is your<sup>asws</sup> view regarding that?’ So he<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘If in their going over to them is beneficial for them (orphans), so there is no problem, and if there was harm in it, so no!’ And he<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘But the human being is an overlooker upon himself, and it is not concealed upon you all and Allah<sup>azwj</sup> Mighty and Majestic has Said <span class="ibTxt"><a href="/#/books/quran:2#h220"><a href="/books/quran:2#h220">[2:220]</a></a> and if you intermingle with them, so they are your brethren; and Allah Knows the mischief-maker from the righteous</span>’.
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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