Hadith 11

r any pairing better than the good mannerisms, nor any inheritance better than the ethics’. [34]
A group, from Abu Al Mufazzal, from Hanzalat Bin Zakariyya the judge, from Muhammad Bin Ali Bin Hamza Al Alawy, from his father, ‘From Al-Rezaasws, from hisasws forefathersasws having said: ‘Rasool-Allahsaww said: ‘Reckoning of the Momin is his wealth, and his personality is his intellect, and his forbearance is his nobility, and his honour is his piety’. [35]
(The book) Al-Durrat Al-Bahira – Abu Al-Hassanasws the third said: ‘The ignorance and the miserliness are the most condemned of the traits’. [36]
And Abu Muhammad Al-Askariasws said: ‘A good face is the apparent beauty, and the good intellect is the hidden beauty’. [37]
And heasws said: ‘If the people (don’t) use their intellect, it would be ruined’. [38]
Nahj (Al-Balagah) – Amir Al-Momineenasws said: ‘There isn’t any seeing with the insight (i. e. , the real seeing is the insight of the intellect), and the eyes have belied its people, nor can the intellect be overwhelmed from its advice being taken’. [39]
Nahj (Al-Balagah) – Heasws said: ‘There is no wealth like the intellect, nor any poverty like the ignorance, nor an inheritance like the ethics, nor any backer like the consultation’. [40]
And heasws said: ‘The richest of the riches is the intellect, and the greatest of the poverty is the stupidity’. [41]
And heasws said: ‘There is no wealth more supportive than the intellect, nor is there any intellect like the management’. [42]
And heasws said: ‘The forbearance is the veiling cover, and the intellect is the absolute sword. Veil the bad manners with your forbearance, and kill your whims with your intellect’. [43]
(The book) Kunz of Al-Karajaky – The Prophetsaww said: ‘For everything there is a tool and a weapon, and the tool of the Momin and his weapon is the intellect. And for everything there is a ride, and the ride of the person is the intellect. And for everything there is a peak, and the peak of the worship is the intellect. And for every people there is a shepherd, and the shepherd of the worshippers is the intellect. And for everything there is a trader there are goods, and the goods of the strivers is the intellect. And for every ruin (sign one can gather that) there used to be a building, and the building of the Hereafter is the intellect. And for every journey there is a tent they are resorting to, and a tent of the Muslims is the intellect’. [44]
And Amir Al-Momineenasws said: ‘There is no weapon more beneficial than the intellect, nor any enemy more harmful than the ignorance’. [45]
And heasws said: ‘An adornment of the man is his intellect’. [46]
And heasws said: ‘The cutting off (relationship) of the intellectual equates to the maintaining (relationship) of the ignorant one’. [47]
And heasws said: ‘One, whose majority of his contents is not intellect, would be killed by what is most inside him’. [48]
And heasws said: ‘The beauty is in the tongue, and the perfection is in the intellect; and the intellect and the stupidity do not cease to overcome each other upon the man up to the age of eighty years. So when he reaches it, the majority of the two which are within him, overcome him’. [49]
And heasws said: ‘The intellects of the Imamsasws are the thoughts, and the thoughts of the Imamsasws are the hearts, and the hearts of the Imamsasws are the sensory perception, and the sensory perceptions of the Imamsasws are the organs’. [50]
And Rasool-Allahsaww said: ‘Seek guidance of the intellect, you will be guided, and do not disobey it, for you will be regretting’. [51]
And heasws said: ‘The chief of the deeds in the two houses (world and the Hereafter) is the intellect, and for everything there is a pillar and a pillar of the Momin is his intellect. Thus, in accordance to his intellect, his (acts of) worship would be for his Lordazwj’. [52]
And Amir Al-Momineenasws said: ‘The intellects are ammunition, and the deeds are treasures’. [53]