102. Imam
Ali (p): Refresh your minds with marvels of wisdom because minds
too get tired as your bodies do.(B2, C16, T1)
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103. Imam
Ali (p): O seeker of knowledge! Numerous are the advantages of knowledge.
The head of knowledge (if knowledge is personified as a human being)
will be humility, its eyes will be immune from jealousy; its ears
will be understanding (the truth and justice); its tongue will be
truthfulness; its security lies in visiting the learned scholars;
its ambitions will be to establish (universal) peace; its wisdom
will be piety; salvation will be its final abode; its health will
be its leader; faithfulness will be its mount; sweet talk will be
its ammunition; its sword will be the acceptance of the Will and
Pleasure of God; its bow (and arrow) will be sympathy and hospitality;
its army will be its good manners; its treasures will be its refraining
from sins; its sustenance will be its good manners; its meekness
will be its beverage (to quench his thirst during his journey);
its guide will be the Divine Guidance and its comrades will be the
love of virtues.(B2, C16, T2)
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104. Prophet
Muhammad (p): The most able adviser for the faithful is knowledge,
the noblest adviser of knowledge is forbearance, the best adviser
of forbearance is kindness and the most competent adviser of kindness
is patience.(B2, C16, T3)
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105. A
believer asked Prophet Muhammad (p): O Prophet of God, what is knowledge?
The Prophet (p): Silence (refraining from unnecessary gossip).
The Believer: Then what?
The Prophet (p): To listen (to the learned).
The Believer: Then what?
The Prophet (p) said: To memorize (what he has heard).
The Believer: Then what?
The Prophet (p): Act on it.
The Believer: Then what?
The Prophet (p): To disseminate it.(B2, C16, T4)
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106. Imam
Jafar as-Sadiq (p): Anyone who memorizes forty of our traditions,
God will raise him as a scholar of religious jurisprudence.(B2,
C16, T7)
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107. Imam
Muhammad al-Baqir (p): In a doubtful case, it is better to wait
and think than to take any hasty decision. It is better to abandon
a tradition which in your opinion is not correctly reported than
to narrate it without verification.(B2, C16, T9)
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108. Imam
Jafar as-Sadiq (p): Regarding what you do not know out of what has
come down to you (the Noble Quran), you must try to keep silent.
(Or else) refer the same for confirmation to the divinely guided
Imams (p) so that they may lead you to the correct interpretation.
They will also dispel its obscurity and make you aware of the truth.
Then the Imam (p) quoted the verse: …Ask the people of understanding
in case you do not know (Q, 16:43).(B2, C16, T10)
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109. Imam
Jafar as-Sadiq (p): I find the knowledge of all men divided in four
categories: First, realization of your Lord; secondly, to acknowledge
all His favours to you; thirdly, to understand your obligation towards
Him; and fourthly, to know what banishes you from the folds of your
religion.(B2, C16, T11)
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110. Imam
Jafar as-Sadiq (p): Assess the status of people on the basis of
the frequency of their quoting our traditions.(B2, C16, T12)
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