Admonitions of Hazrat Luqman to his Son
O Son! If you learn discipline in childhood you will benefit from it after you grow up.
You must set aside some hours in the day and night for achieving knowledge because there is nothing which can destroy man's knowledge.
Do not quarrel with the quarrelsome nor argue with any wise and learned person. Do not make the rich your enemy and do not keep company of the oppressors and do not cultivate brotherhood with a sinner nor sit with a disgraced and notorious person
My precious son! Fear Allah, as He deserves to be feared. Be afraid of Him even if you have at your credit all the virtues and good deeds done by all men and jinn if you have to stand before Him for giving account of your deeds.
O my dear son! Do not have a wish for the world and do not engage yourself in it because no creation of Allah is more worthless than the world in the sight of Allah.
O my son! You must keep a weapon ready by which you can fell (defeat) your enemy and that weapon (tactic) is that you should shake hands with him and show pleasure to him without separating from him, without showing enmity to him so that he may reveal to you what is hidden in his heart about harming you.
O my son! Make a thousand friends because even a thousand friends are less but do not make even one enemy because even one enemy is sufficient.
Keep your secrets hidden and your inner self, pure.
Keep your soul clean of Allah's disobedience and characterlessness.
My son! Hard work for attaining a useful thing should be considered light and less effort in achieving a harmful thing should be considered heavy.
The one whose faith in Allah's attribute of being the Provider is less, must take a lesson of advice and the one who is weak in asking provision from the Almighty must take a lesson of advice because it is only Allah who brought him from non-existence into existence and gave him provision in three states and there was no source of getting provision whatsoever in any of the said three states. So he much have rest assured that He will provide him maintenance in the fourth state of his life also.
One of the above mentioned three states is when he was in the womb of his mother. It was only Allah who provided him sustenance and sheltered him in a restful place where he suffered neither heat nor cold.
In another state he was brought out of his mother's womb by Allah and he provided his provision of milk from his mother's breast. It was a pure and clean and enough for him in that state. Allah nourished and raised him in that state wherein there was no other source of nourishment and training, no strength for earning and no power of warding off harms.
The third state was when his milk supply ended. Then he was provided maintenance through his parent's earnings who spent on him with maximum love and pleasure and compassion, so much so that sometimes they gave him preference over themselves.
This continued until he grew up and got enough strength and intelligence to earn his provision himself. Then he himself made things difficult for him by entertaining undesirable thoughts about his Lord and did not spend for fulfilling and observing the rights of Allah and began to give less to his family members fearing loss of wealth thereby losing faith in Allah.
This was despite the fact that Allah always rewards him for spending in His path both in this world and in Hereafter. So bad indeed is such a slave."
My son! Everything has a sign by which it is recognized. That sign gives witness for that thing. So religion too has three signs: Faith (Imaan), Knowledge (Ilm) and Deeds (A'mal).
Faith has three signs: Testifying of Allah's Books. Knowledge also has three signs: Knowing his Lord, ascertaining what his Lord likes and what He dislikes. Again there are three signs of the one who acts according to his Knowledge: Daily prayers, fasts and Zakat poor tax. Also there are three signs of a man who closes the door of knowledge for himself and does not become learned: He quarrels with one who is wiser than him, mentions things which are higher than his level of intelligence though he acts against it, oppresses the weak and assists the oppressors.
And there are three sings of the hypocrites: His tongue does not corroborate his heart, his heart does not corroborate his character and his outward appearance is different from his inner self.
There are three signs of a sinner: He misappropriates people's wealth, tells lies and acts contrary to his words. There are three signs of a Riyaakaar (one who make a show): He is slack in his worship while he is alone but makes a show of full attentiveness in worship while in public and he does it so that people may praise him.
The envious has also three signs: He backbites people and flatters them on the face, feels happy when people are in trouble. There are three sings of extravagant: He eats things which are beyond his capacity and so also he wears likewise, and he feeds others crossing his limits of capacity.
There are three signs of a indolent (lazy): He is slack in doing good deeds and he postpones good deeds until and unless he is threatened and he becomes so lazy that the job is spoiled and thus he becomes a defaulter. There are three signs of a negligent man: He is doubtful in his worship, becomes careless in matter of remembering his Lord and he forgets good deeds.
O my son! If you dislike something in your friends do not get impatient and do not get nostalgic or misbehave with them because friendship cannot be maintained in this way. Make it a point to act with restraint and without haste.
Do not rush to do anything without properly thinking over its consequences.
O my son! The world is small and your age is short. Do not care much for achieving anything from a limited world in a short lifetime.
O My son! Never be envious. Consider it against your status to be envious.
O my son! The worst restlessness is disruption of intellect. The greatest sin is a sin against religion and the greatest calamity is the danger to faith and the most profitable wealth is the wealth of heart. So enrich your heart with knowledge, faith, good morality and rest content on whatever you get in this world.
O my Son! If you have at all any doubt about your impending death then remove sleep from you. You cannot do it. And if you have any doubt about rising up again after death them avoid awaking after your sleep. You cannot ever do it. So if you ponder over these two things you will realize that your life is in the hand of someone else; that sleep is like death and awakening is like rising up after death.The one who does not control his tongue feels ashamed
It is reported reliably from Imam Sadiq (a.s.) that Luqman (a.s.), in his will asked his son:
My Son: People before you gathered wealth for their family members. Then neither they lived nor their wealth lasted nor those for whom it was gathered. You are a laborer who has been ordered to do some jobs on fixed remuneration. So carry out your duties, take your remuneration and to not live in this world like a sheep which goes to a field and grazes so much that it becomes fat and then it is slaughtered because of its obesity. But you should pass through this world like crossing a bridge that is built over a river. After crossing it you never return to it.
My Son! Never delay repentance because death arrives all of a sudden without warning.
Do not ridicule a man who falls in trouble and never stop doing good to others
My Son! Consider piety as a business which will give you profit without investing any capital. If you commit a sin send a donation in advance (spend to help the needy or do a good deed) which may remove that sin.
My Son! Every day that dawns is a new day and it witnesses about your deeds before the Lord of the worlds. My Son! Remember that people will wrap you in a shroud and put you in a grave where you will see all that you had done during life. My Son! Just think how you can live in the premises of the one whom you have angered by disobedience.
جزاك الله خيرا
Reference: Hayaat al Qulub, Vol 1
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