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

20-2 حدثنا أبي رضي الله عنه قال: حدثنا سعد بن عبد الله، عن أحمد بن أبي عبد الله البرقي قال: حدثني محمد بن عبد الله بن مهران قال: حدثني علي بن الحسين ابن عبيدالله اليشكري قال: حدثني محمد بن المثنى الحضرمي، عن عثمان بن زيد، عن جابر بن يزيد، عن أبي جعفر عليه السلام قال: للمؤمن على الله عز وجل عشرون خصلة يفي له بها، على الله تبارك وتعالى أن لا يفتنه ولا يضله، وله على الله أن لا يعريه ولا يجوعه، وله على الله أن لا يشمت به عدوه، وله على الله أن لا يخذله ويعزله،وله على الله أن لا يهتك ستره، وله على الله أن لا يميته غرقا ولا حرقا، وله على الله أن لا يقع على شيء ولا يقع عليه شيء، وله على الله أن يقيه مكر الماكرين، وله على الله أن يعيذه من سطوات الجبارين، وله على الله أن يجعله معنا في الدنيا والآخرة، وله على الله أن لا يسلط عليه من الادواء ما يشين خلقته، وله على الله أن يعيذه من البرص والجذام وله على الله أن لا يميته على كبيرة، وله على الله أن لا ينسيه مقامه في المعاصي حتى يحدث توبة، وله على الله أن لا يحجب عنه معرفته بحجته، وله على الله أن لا يعـزز في قـلبه الباطل، وله على اللهأن يحشره يوم القيامة ونوره يسعى بين يديه، وله على الله أن يوفقه لكل خير، وله على الله أن لا يسلط عليه عدوه فيذله، وله على الله أن يختم له بالامن والايمان ويجعله معنا في الرفيق الاعلى. هذه شرائط الله عز وجل للمؤمنين

20-2 (The compiler of the book narrated) that his father - may God be pleased with him - narrated that Sa’ed ibn Abdullah quoted Ahmad ibn Aba Abdullah al-Barqy, on the authority of Muhammad ibn Abdullah ibn Mihran, on the authority of Ali ibn al-Hussein ibn Ubaydullah al-Yashkari, on the authority of Muhammad ibn al-Masna al-Hazrami, on the authority of Uthman ibn Zayd, on the authority of Jabir ibn Yazid that Abi Ja’far al-Baqir (MGB) said, “There are twenty rights for a believer incumbent upon the Honorable the Exalted God. It is incumbent upon the Blessed the Sublime God not to put him through such a trial which would force him out of the religion. It is incumbent upon God not to leave him without any food or clothing. It is incumbent upon God not to let him be blamed by his enemies. It is incumbent upon God not to debase or belittle him. It is incumbent upon God not to divulge his secrets. It is incumbent upon God not to take away his life by drowning or burning. It is incumbent upon God not to have anything overtake him or for him to overtake something. It is incumbent upon God to help him out of the plots of those who plot. It is incumbent upon God to safeguard him from being overpowered by the oppressors. It is incumbent upon God to associate him with us in this world and the Hereafter. It is incumbent upon God not to give him a disease that would make His creation look bad. It is incumbent upon God to safeguard him from vitiligo and leprosy. It is incumbent upon God not to take away his life after having done a major sin. It is incumbent upon God to remind him of his sins so that he may repent. It is incumbent upon God not to deny him of the knowledge of His Proof. It is incumbent upon God not to make what is wrong dear in his heart. It is incumbent upon God to resurrect him along with us on the Resurrection Day with the light of hisfaith shining in front of him. It is incumbent upon God to make him succeed in all good affairs. It is incumbent upon God not to make him subdued by his enemies and be belittled. It is incumbent upon God to have him end up securely and with faith and join him up with us in the Highest Paradise. These are the Honorable the Exalted God’s conditions for believers.”

Al-Khiṣāl

Book 21, Chapter 2