Aslam

Once a man said to Hasan Basari: Give me advice. He said:
Honour the commandments of God, God will honour you. The wise Loqman advised his son: O my darling, attach your lance with the learned, but dispute not with them, lest they may cherish harted for you. Take from the world what is absolutely necessary for you and spend for your next world your excess wealth. Don't put your own burden to the shoulder of others by giving up completely this world. Keep fast in such a way as can destroy your greed and fast not in such a way as may spoil your prayer as prayer is better than fasting. Don't mix with the fools and hypocrites. He said to his son another time: O my darling, don't do any work with displeasure. Don's go out on a journey without necessity. Don't ask a thing which will not be beneficial to you. Don't squander your wealth and don't consider the wealth of others as good. What you send in advance is your wealth and what you leave behind is the wealth of others. O my darling, he who is kind gets kindness. He who keeps silent remains secure. He who speaks good gets benefit and he who speaks evil, commits sin. He who does not control his tongue becomes repentant. A man asked Hazrat Abu Hazem: Give me advice. He said: Do what will benefit you at the time of death and give up what will go against you at the time of death.

Hazrat Moses said to Khizr: Give me advice. He said: walk with a smiling face and don't walk with an angry face. Be benefactor and not an injurious man. Give up disputation and walk not without necessity, don't laugh out without being

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satisfies and don't accuse the sinners without sharing in their sins. O son of Imran, weep for your faults.

A man said to Mohammad bin Keran: Give me advice. He said: Make efforts to please your Creator as you make efforts to satisfy yourself. A man asked Hamid Lefafa: Give me advice. He saidr See that disasters and dangers may not destroy your religion. Prepare for it a cover like that of the Quran. He asked:
What is the cover of religion? He said: To give up search of this world except for things absolutely necessary, not to talk except what is absolutely necessary and to give up the company of men except for dire necessity.

Hazrat Hasan Basari wrote to Caliph Abdul Aziz: After praise of God and blessings on the Prophet fear what God said of be feared . Be careful of what God said to be careful. Take for your fortune from what is in your possession. Sure news will come to you at the time of your death. Salam to you.