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Avoidance of Scorning
502. Imām al-Sādiq (a.s.) said: “Do not scorn the faults of he who has come to you with his friendship, and do not hold against him his wrongs that he is ashamed of, for this is not of the morals of the Messenger of Allah or of the morals of his friends.”1
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Avoiding Hurting Others
503. The Prophet (s.a.w.) said: “The lowest of people is he who humiliates people.”2
504. The Prophet (s.a.w.) said: “Whoever hurts a believer has hurt me, and whoever hurts me surely has hurt Allah, and whoever hurts Allah is cursed in the Torah, the Gospel, the Psalm and the Qurān.”3
505. The Prophet (s.a.w.) said, concerning the rights of a neighbor: “When you buy fruit, gift some to him, and if you do not want to do so, carry it [into the house] secretly and do not let your child come outside with it, lest the feelings of his children become hurt.”4
506. Imām al-Sādiq (a.s.) said: “By Allah, the righteous are victorious. Do you know who they are? They are those who do not hurt even a small ant.”5
1.. al-Kāfi, vol. ۸, p. ۱۵۰, h. ۱۳۲. Tanbih al-Khawātir, vol. ۲, p. ۱۴۶. Both narrating from Mas‘adah ibn Sadaqah.
2.. Kitāb Man lā Yahdarhu al-Faqih, vol. ۴, p. ۳۹۶, h. ۵۸۴۰, narrating from Yunus ibn Zabyān. Ma‘āni al-Akhbār, p. ۱۹۵, h. ۱, narrating from Abu Hamzah al-Thumāli. Both narrating from Imām al-Sādiq (a.s.) from his forefathers (a.s.). Bihār al-Anwār, vol. ۷۵, p. ۱۴۲, h. ۲.
3.. Mishkāt al-Anwār, p. ۱۴۹, h. ۳۵۸. Rawdah al-Wā‘izin, p. ۳۲۱. Bihār al-Anwār, vol. ۶۷, p. ۷۲, h. ۴۰.
4.. al-Targhib wa al-Tarhib, vol. ۳, p. ۳۵۷, h. ۲۰. Musakkin al-Fu'ād, p. ۱۰۵. Both narrating from ‘Amr ibn Shu‘aib from his father from his grandfather. Bihār al-Anwār, vol. ۸۲, p. ۹۴, h. ۴۶.
5.. Tafsir al-Qummi, vol. ۲, p. ۱۴۶, narrating from Hafs ibn Ghiyāth. Bihār al-Anwār, vol. ۲, p. ۲۷, h. ۵ and vol. ۷۸, p. ۱۹۳, h. ۷.
