Musa al-Kazim Quotes

Association with a learned one in the slums, is by far better than sitting with an ignorant person on sumptuous and luxurious carpets.

"Good neighbor is not refraining from harm, but good neighbor is showing patience toward harm."^:152

"Silence is among the doors to wisdom; it brings about love and is a proof of all good things."^:151

Anger is the key to any evil.

The sleep of a wise man is far better than the worship of an ignorant one during the night.

"Believers are few and the unbelievers are legion."^:162

"Little work from a scholar is doubly accepted; much work from the men of low desire and ignorance is refused."^:309

"The generous and polite is under the protection of God; He does not leave him until He makes him enter the Garden. God sends out none as a prophet except the generous."^:151

"The occultation of the Lord of this Cause (Sahib al-zaman, i.e., Muhammad al-Mahdi) is inevitable so that those who profess this cause may withdraw from it. This is a painful test that God has given to His creatures."^:114

Everything has a tax, and the tax for the bodies is recommended fasting.

Cheerfulness and good nature, purge hatred and rancour.

A believer is as the two pans of a scale, that whenever his faith increases his afflictions increase.

"Our Shias [i.e., followers] see through the light (nur) of God and move through the mercy of God and succeed through the grace (beneficence, karama) of God."^:171

"God has two proofs over men: outward proof and inward one. As for the outward proof, it is the messengers, the prophets, and the imams. As for the inward proof, it is reason."^:309

The likeness of this world is as the water of the sea - however much a thirsty person drinks from it, his thirst increases so much so that the water kills him.