Introduction

God is One and Only

Abandoning the Present to Attain the Promised

Oppressive Characteristics

Characteristics Rooted in Love for Religion

One Characteristic for Five Characteristics

A Characteristic for a Characteristic

A Saving Characteristic

The Loftiest Characteristic of the Religion

No Two Things Combined which are Better than the Combination of Two Characteristics

A Characteristic that is the Honor of This World and the Hereafter

The Most Knowledgeable Person Is One who Combines One Characteristic with Another One

There Is One True Prosperity And One True Misery

A Characteristic for Which the People Deserve to be Rewarded or Punished

A Characteristic that Is the Noblest Holy War

The Hardest Thing is One Characteristic that Cannot Be Avoided Unless We Abandon Another Characteristic

A Believer’s Honor Is in One Characteristic and His Glory Is In Another Characteristic

One Characteristic Is the Key to All Evil

A Characteristic Due to Justice

A Characteristic Due to Which We Are Interested in How Others Judge About Us

Seek Nearness to God with One Characteristic

God Has Not Tested the Servants with Anything Harder Than One Characteristic

A Characteristic that Is the Result of Being Kind

A Characteristic that Stabilizes One’s Faith and One that Makes Him Lose His Faith

A Characteristic that Destroys a Believer’s Dignity

A Good Characteristic Which No Other Characteristic Is Better Than, and a Bad Characteristic That No Other Characteristic Is Worse Than

A Characteristic That Guarantees Who Will Not Become Poor

The Form of Chivalry of the Members of the Holy Household

A Characteristic Due to One’s Chivalry

A Characteristic that Is Not Good for a Dignified Man

God Loves One Characteristic and Despises One Characteristic

One Who has This Characteristic Would Not Be Thankful for Blessings

A Characteristic Due to Humbleness

A Characteristic that Is Close to Blasphemy and A Characteristic that Might Change Destiny

A Characteristic that Destroyed Previous Nations

Martyrdom Is Expiation for Every Sin Except for One’s Debt

God the Almighty Has Sent Muhammad (sw) and His Nation a Gift That He Has Not Given to Any Other Nation

A Characteristic that One Should Have If He Wants to Increase Goodness in His House

God Will Look at Whom He Likes. Once He Looks at Him, He Shall Grant Him One of Three Gifts

The Hereafter is the Wedding of the Pious Ones

A Characteristic That is Like its Opposite

The Most Wicked People Are Those Who Are Respected for Possessing One Characteristic

A Characteristic in This World is Abstinence, and a Characteristic That is Gratitude for all Blessings

Nothing Deserves to Be Restrained More Than the Tongue

Whoever Raises his Aspirations Does Wrong

Good Deeds Are Recorded for a Muslim as Long as He Remains Quiet

A Characteristic Having Which Will Result in God Saving You From the Fear of the Hereafter

The Most Intelligent Characteristic

The Most Pious, the Best Worshipping, the Most Ascetic and the Most Hard-Working People

Becoming Sorry Is the Same as Repenting

Whoever Earns More Than His Meals fom This World

A Characteristic That Deserves to Be Willed

A Characteristic That Causes One to Be Thrown Out and a Characteristic That Causes One to Be Joined

Lofty Characteristics and Bad Characteristics for the People of the World

There Is No Honor Except Through One Characteristic. There Is No Nobility Except Through Another Characteristic

When God Loves a Servant He Will Make Him Suffer from a Great Calamity

A Characteristic That Leads to Hemorrhoids

A Hand on Which There Is an Iron Ring Is Not Clean

Do Not Respond to Whoever Talks Before He Greets You

A Characteristic That if Practiced Implies Despise for Muhammad’s Religion

Only One of the Proverbs of the Prophets Has Remained

When God Wishes a Servant Well, He Will Expedite His Punishment in This World, and When He Wishes Someone Bad, He Will Procrastinate His Punishment

Be Patient with the Enemies of the Blessings

The Prophet (sw) and Ali Ibn Abi Talib Were Created from the Same Root

A Characteristic That is Gratitude for All Blessings

Religion Is the Same as Love

When Two Believers Shake Hands They Shall Depart from Each Other Void of Any Sins

A Characteristic That Revives the Hearts

A Characteristic That Revives the Affairs of the Almighty God’s Proofs

God the Almighty Has Not Created Anything More Delightful Than This Characteristic

A Characteristic That Constitutes Nine-Tenths of Religion

Whoever is Pleased with His Destiny or is Displeased with it

A Characteristic for Which Even Red-Haired Camels Are Not Loved

A Characteristic That Increases the Daily Bread

A Characteristic That Leads to Hypocrisy and Poverty

The First Gift Given to a Believer Due to a Characteristic

A Characteristic for Which One Who Has No Good Deeds is Forgiven on the Resurrection Day

A Characteristic That is the Root of All Sins

How Awkward It Is If a Man Enters Heaven Having Lost His Honor

A Characteristic Doing Which Will Cause the Almighty God to Have Mercy Upon You

A Characteristic Doing Which Will Cause Increased Good for One’s House

On Him Whose Health Has Overcome His Illness but He Treats Himself and Dies

A Characteristic Which a Believer Avoids

Nothing Ruins Faith as Much as One Characteristic Does

One Who Lives to See his Successor Is Prosperous

A Believer’s Honor is More Than That of the Ka’ba

It Suffices for a Believer to See God’s Aid in the Form of His Enemies Engaged in the Almighty God’s Disobedience

A Gift Will Eliminate Animosities

Prosperous Be the One Who is Indifferent

A Characteristic That Will Make One Poor in the Hereafter

A Group of People Who Are the Masters of Heaven

God’s Prophet Made His Ablutions One Organ at a Time

The Characteristic That Is the Best Goodness

The Prophet Put off His Special Prayer for One Characteristic

A Characteristic That is the Best Form of Worshipping and a Characteristic That is the Noblest Form of Being Religious

What Is A Lot but Its Doers Are A Few

A Characteristic That Constitutes Half of the Religion

A Characteristic That is the Best Thing Given to a Muslim

The Prophet and Ali Ibn Abi Talib Were Created from One Light

A Servant’s Well-Being Depends Upon the Well-Being of One of His Organs

16-2 حدثنا محمد بن علي بن ماجيلويه رضي الله عنه قال: حدثنا عمي محمد بن أبي القاسم، عن محمد بن علي القرشي الكوفي قال: حدثنا أبوزياد محمد بن زياد البصري قال: حدثنا عبد الله بن عبدالرحمن المدني قال: حدثنا ثابت بن أبي صفية الثمالي، عن ثور بن سعيد، عن أبيه سعيد بن علاقة قال: سمعت أمير المؤمنين علي بن أبي طالب عليه السلام يقول: ترك نسج العنكبوت في البيت يورث الفقر، والبول في الحمام يورث الفقر، والاكل على الجنابة يورث الفقر، والتخلل بالطرفاء يورث الفقر، والتمشط من قيام يورث الفقر، وترك القمامة في البيت يورث الفقر، واليمين الفاجرة تورث الفقر، والزنا تورث الفقر، وإظهار الحرص يورث الفقر، والنوم بين العشائين يورث الفقر، والنوم قبل طلوع الشمس يورث الفقر، وترك التقدير في المعيشة يورث الفقر، وقطيعة الرحم يورث الفقر، واعتياد الكذب يورث الفقر، وكثرة الاستماع إلى الغناء يورث الفقر، ورد السائل الذكر بالليل يورث الفقرثم قال عليه السلام: ألا أنبئكم بعد ذلك بما يزيد في الرزق قالوا: بلى يا أمير المؤمنين فقال: الجمع بين الصلاتين يزيد في الرزق، والتعقيب بعد الغداة وبعد العصر يزيد في الرزق، وصلة الرحم تزيد في الرزق، وكسح الفنا يزيد في الرزق، ومواساة الاخ في الله عز وجل يزيد في الرزق، والبكور في طلب الرزق يزيد في الرزق، والاستغفار يزيد في الرزق، واستعمال الامانة يزيد في الرزق، وقول الحق يزيد في الرزق، وإجابة المؤذن يزيد في الرزق، وترك الكلام في الخلاء يزيد في الرزق، وترك الحرص يزيد في الرزق، وشكر المنعم يزيد في الرزق، واجتناب اليمين الكاذبة يزيد في الرزق، والوضوء قبل الطعام يزيد في الرزق، وأكل ما يسقط من الخوان يزيد في الرزق، ومن سبح الله كل يوم ثلاثين مرة دفع الله عز وجل عنه سبعين نوعا من البلاء أيسرها الفقر

16-2 Muhammad ibn Ali Majiluyih - may God be pleased with him - narrated that his uncle Muhammad ibn Abil-Qasim quoted Muhammad ibn Ali al-Qurashi al-Kufy, on the authority of Abu Zyad Muhammad ibn Zyad al-Basry, on the authority of Abdullah ibn Abdul Rahman al-Madani, on the authority of Sabit ibn Abi Sofayat al-Somali, on the authority of Soor ibn Sa’id, on the authority of his father Sa’id ibn Alaqat, “I heard the Commander of the Faithful Imam Ali (MGB) say, ‘The following deeds are all causes of poverty: not dusting off the spider webs from the walls of the house; peeing in the bath; eating food before purification of the body after having sex; associating with people who always waste their time with vain talk; combing hair while standing up; not taking the trash out of the house; false swearing; fornication; greed; sleeping between the evening and the night prayer; sleeping before sunset; becoming a liar; listening to music too much; chiding away a poor man who remembers God at night; improper spending; and cutting off relations from relatives.’Imam Ali (MGB) then said, ‘Do you want me to tell you what will increase your share of daily bread?’The people said, ‘O Commander of the Faithful! Yes.’He (MGB) said, ‘The following deeds will increase your share of daily bread: saying your noon and afternoon, or evening and night prayers one right after the other; saying some supplications after the night and morning prayer; visiting the relatives; sweeping the entrance of the house; sympathizing with your believing brothers; getting up early in the morning and going out to work to earn the daily bread; asking God for forgiveness; being trustworthy; saying what is right; going to pray when the call to prayer is announced; not talking in the toilet; not being greedy; being grateful to the Owner of the blessings; avoiding false swearing; making ablution before eating; eating what might fall off of the table-cloth . In addition, God the Almighty will fend off seventy types of calamities from whoever praises God thirty times each day - the simplest of which being poverty.’”

Al-Khiṣāl

Book 17, Chapter 2