Each person’s worth is what he does well,
And the ignorant are enemies of the learned.
There is no ground for pride except mindfulness of God, for it is God’s bond of kinship between Him and His servants. Beware of gossip about what is neither fitting nor beneficial; speak instead specifically to convey good. Beware of excessive questioning, except in seeking knowledge of your religion, for knowledge of it holds your felicity: ﴿Ask the people of remembrance if you do not know﴾ [al-Nahl 16:43].
You know that no one has a movement, stillness, entrance, or exit without the Law having a ruling concerning it under one of the five rulings. If you do not know, ask about everything in which you find yourself: what is the Law’s ruling concerning it? Seek the removal of hardship as far as you can, give precedence to prohibition, and adopt the strict rulings in your own case.
Beware of wasting wealth, which is spending it in disobedience to God. Spending it in disobedience to God includes giving it to someone whom you know will spend it on what does not please God. If you do not know this, there is no harm.
Do not part from someone while he is engaged in something displeasing to God and then believe that he remains in the state in which you left him. There is no way to establish that. Such a presumption applies only in the prescribed legal rulings, for they hold that one presumes the continuation of
