Hadith 83

And he-asws said to Al-Ashter: ‘O Malik! Preserve this speech from me-asws and retain it. O Malik! He has lowered his personality, one whose conviction is weak; and he has degraded himself, one who prefers the greed; and he is satisfied with the disgrace, one who reveals his harm; and he has lowered himself, one who notifies (others) upon his secrets, and he has destroyed it, one whose tongue is a commander upon him. The greed is a butcher of the seriousness; one who inclines to the far matters, the desire will abandon him; the stinginess is a shame, and the cowardice is a deficiency, and the devoutness is a shield, and the thanking is a multiplier (of wealth), and the patience is bravery, and the poor is a stranger is his own city, and the poverty mutes the clever ones from his argument, and the best companion is the satisfaction, the etiquettes are new garments. And rank of the man is his intellect, and his chest is a vault of his secrets; and the verification is resoluteness; and the contemplation is a clear mirror; and the forbearance is a meritorious trait; and the charity is a profitable cure; and deeds of the people in their current (life) will be set up in their eyes in their future (life); taking a lesson is a righteous contemplation; and the cheerfulness is a trap of affection’’. [82]