قَالَ أَبُو جَعْفَرٍ ( عليه السلام ) كَانَ أَبِي يَقُولُ خَيْرُ الْأَعْمَالِ الْحَرْثُ تَزْرَعُهُ فَيَأْكُلُ مِنْهُ الْبَرُّ وَ الْفَاجِرُ أَمَّا الْبَرُّ فَمَا أَكَلَ مِنْ شَيْءٍ اسْتَغْفَرَ لَكَ وَ أَمَّا الْفَاجِرُ فَمَا أَكَلَ مِنْهُ مِنْ شَيْءٍ لَعَنَهُ وَ يَأْكُلُ مِنْهُ الْبَهَائِمُ وَ الطَّيْرُ .
Translation
A number of our companions, from Ahmad Bin Abu Abdullah, from one of our companions who said, ‘Abu Ja’far<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘My<sup>asws</sup> father<sup>asws</sup> was saying: ‘The best of the works is the farming where you cultivate, so the righteous and the immoral eat from it. So as for the righteous, so whatever from the things he eats, it would seek Forgiveness for you; and as for the immoral, so whatever from the things he eats, it would curse him; and the beasts and the birds would eat from it’.
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