One Hundred And Fifty Lessons For Life

Lesson Forty Four: Some Signs of Belief

Imam As-Sadiq (a.s.) said:

Translation

A believer provides valuable assistance, has low expenditure, and is prudent in life, and is never bitten twice from one hole (never inflicted twice from one source). [^1]

Brief Description

Belief has some scientific, moral and social manifestation and signs, without which it is only a meaningless name. The above tradition refers to four signs of it:

1- believers provide valuable assistance to their Muslim brothers because their help is accompanied with compassion, honesty and awareness.

2- they do not have a luxurious and costly standard of living and do not commit offenses to provide for it.

3- they are prudent and aware in life especially in economic affairs.

4- they take lesson from each event immediately and thus they are not inflicted twice from the same source.

[^1]: Safinat’ul-Bihar, Alkafi, vol 2, page 241, Wasa'il Alshia, vol 15, page 193.