he is gentle and a man of the
Israelites was not considered to be
alone and they say it is because of
you that we are punished or
should take him privately and
advise him. A believer should advise
a worshipper until he shut his
mouth for 10 Years.”
rewarded.”
In the very next chapter the Ahlul
for a believer in his presence and in
his absence.”
Abi Jafar (as) said, “Verily Allah loves
Bayt (as) say that the Prophet of
Aba Abdullah (as) said, “The ones
the living one who is gentle.”
Allah (sawas) said, “There are three
who advise in the face of Allah in
His creation, Allah rewards them on
In regards to gentleness and being
quiet and shutting ones mouth the
Ahlul Bayt (as) said, “Verily our Shia
are the mute.” And Aba Abdullah
(as) said, “Safeguard your tongue
and you shall be saved and do not
speak against the
people.” (Meaning the believers).
Also the Ahlul Bayt (as) said,
“Safeguard your tongue and you
shall be glorified.”
The Ahlul Bayt (as) have said in
regards to the verse of Allah, “Do
things if they are not in a believer
his work is not completed; Fear of
Allah (swt) which safeguards him
from doing acts of sins, Morals
whereby he covers the faults of the
people and gentleness where he
can respond back to the ignorant.”
Imam Jafar as Sadiq(as) said Gabriel
Imam Ali ibn Hussein (as) said,
“Verily the tongue of Adam looks
over and is responsible for all the
it is not advice, always think about
your brother the best.
Imam Ahmad Al Hassan (as)
stressed about fixing between the
people, this is the major duty of the
Ansar Allah, not talking about
saying, “O Muhammad your Lord
people behind their back, not
sends Peace to you and says
safeguard My creation.” Meaning
spreading chaos. This is a good deed
safeguard the sins of My creation,
(as) said, “Fix between the people if
do not expose the sins of My
they corrupt and bring them closer
to one another if they go far.” And
Aba Abdullah (as) also said, “It is
this actually means. And the Messiah
safeguard the sins of My enemy
Jesus son of Mary (as) used to say,
verily the ones who speak much
other than the remembrance of
Allah, their hearts are hardened
and they do not know.”
Advising in public is an expose and
(as) came down to Prophet (sawas)
you not look at the ones who it was Creation.
said to them hold back their
Allah (swt) spoke to Moses son of
hands.” Holding back your tongues
Imran (as), “Moses safeguard My
is what the Ahlul Bayt (as) tell us
secret in secret and in public and
“Do not speak much in anything
but the remembrance of Allah, for
the Day of Judgment.”
that Allah (swt) loves. Aba Abdullah
better to fix between two people
than to give charity of two dinars.”
Imam Sadiq (as) said, “If there are
and your enemy, and do not curse
them because you will be the
partner in My enemy and your
enemy.”
two of our shia fighting, fix between
them to the point that you are
Ahlul Bayt (as) said, “Verily
The Ahlul Bayt (as) have also said in
everything has a lock and the lock
of faith is gentleness and whoever
gentleness was given to him, faith
was given to him.”
regards with withholding your
organs of the human being and the Aba Abdullah (as) said, “It is
organs respond to the tongue
obligatory for a believer towards
saying, 'We are well if you leave us another believer that he advise, he
giving to them from our khums in
order to fix them.”
tongue from talking about the
believers or exposing a
person,“Verily if you hold back your
tongue and hold back your arm
from exposing or talking about a
person, you are holding back one