«27»- ختص، الإختصاص قَالَ مُوسَى بْنُ جَعْفَرٍ عليهما السلام مُحَادَثَةُ الْعَالِمِ عَلَى الْمَزْبَلَةِ خَيْرٌ مِنْ مُحَادَثَةِ الْجَاهِلِ عَلَى الزَّرَابِيِّ.

«27»- khts, al-Ikhtisas: Musa b. Ja'far, peace be upon them both, said: Conversation with the scholar upon a dunghill is better than conversation with the ignorant upon carpets.

«28»- وَ قَالَ عليه السلام لَا تَجْلِسُوا عِنْدَ كُلِّ عَالِمٍ إِلَّا عَالِمٍ يَدْعُوكُمْ مِنَ الْخَمْسِ إِلَى الْخَمْسِ مِنَ الشَّكِّ إِلَى الْيَقِينِ وَ مِنَ الْكِبْرِ إِلَى التَّوَاضُعِ وَ مِنَ الرِّيَاءِ إِلَى الْإِخْلَاصِ وَ مِنَ الْعَدَاوَةِ إِلَى النَّصِيحَةِ وَ مِنَ الرَّغْبَةِ إِلَى الزُّهْدِ.

«28»- And he said, peace be upon him: Do not sit with every scholar, save a scholar who calls you from the five to the five: from doubt to certainty, and from pride to humility, and from ostentation to sincerity, and from enmity to sincere counsel, and from desire to renunciation.

«29»- نَوَادِرُ الرَّاوَنْدِيِّ، بِإِسْنَادِهِ عَنْ مُوسَى بْنِ جَعْفَرٍ عَنْ آبَائِهِ عَلَيْهِمُ السَّلَامُ قَالَ قَالَ صلى اللّٰه عليه و آله النَّظَرُ فِي وَجْهِ الْعَالِمِ حُبّاً لَهُ عِبَادَةٌ.

«29»- The Nawadir of al-Rawandi, by his chain, from Musa b. Ja'far, from his forefathers, peace be upon them, who said: He — may God bless him and his family — said: The looking upon the face of the scholar out of love for him is worship.

«30»- كَنْزُ الْكَرَاجُكِيِّ، قَالَ أَمِيرُ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ عليه السلام مَنْ جَالَسَ الْعُلَمَاءَ وُقِّرَ وَ مَنْ خَالَطَ الْأَنْذَالَ حُقِّرَ.

«30»- The Kanz of al-Karajuki: The Commander of the Faithful, peace be upon him, said: Whoever sits with the scholars is reverenced, and whoever mixes with the base is despised.

«31»- وَ مِنْهُ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَ آلِهِ طُوبَى لِمَنْ شَغَلَهُ عَيْبُهُ عَنْ عُيُوبِ غَيْرِهِ وَ أَنْفَقَ مَا اكْتَسَبَ فِي غَيْرِ مَعْصِيَةٍ وَ رَحِمَ أَهْلَ الضَّعْفِ وَ الْمَسْكَنَةِ وَ خَالَطَ أَهْلَ الْفِقْهِ وَ الْحِكْمَةِ.

«31»- And from it: The Messenger of God — may God bless him and his family — said: Blessedness to him whom his own fault has occupied away from the faults of others; and who has spent what he earned in other than disobedience; and who has had mercy upon the people of weakness and destitution; and who has mixed with the people of understanding and of wisdom.

«32»- وَ مِنْهُ قَالَ لُقْمَانُ لِابْنِهِ أَيْ بُنَيَّ صَاحِبِ الْعُلَمَاءَ وَ جَالِسْهُمْ وَ زُرْهُمْ فِي بُيُوتِهِمْ لَعَلَّكَ أَنْ تُشْبِهَهُمْ فَتَكُونَ مِنْهُمْ.

«32»- And from it: Luqman said to his son: O my son, accompany the scholars and sit with them and visit them in their houses; perhaps you will come to resemble them, and so be one of them.

«33»- عدة، عدة الداعي عَنْ عَلِيٍّ عليه السلام قَالَ: جُلُوسُ سَاعَةٍ عِنْدَ الْعُلَمَاءِ أَحَبُّ إِلَى اللَّهِ مِنْ عِبَادَةِ أَلْفِ سَنَةٍ وَ النَّظَرُ إِلَى الْعَالِمِ أَحَبُّ إِلَى اللَّهِ مِنِ اعْتِكَافِ سَنَةٍ فِي الْبَيْتِ الْحَرَامِ وَ زِيَارَةُ الْعُلَمَاءِ أَحَبُّ إِلَى اللَّهِ تَعَالَى مِنْ سَبْعِينَ طَوَافاً حَوْلَ الْبَيْتِ وَ أَفْضَلُ مِنْ سَبْعِينَ حَجَّةً وَ عُمْرَةً مَبْرُورَةً مَقْبُولَةً وَ رَفَعَ اللَّهُ لَهُ سَبْعِينَ دَرَجَةً وَ أَنْزَلَ اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ الرَّحْمَةَ وَ شَهِدَتْ لَهُ الْمَلَائِكَةُ أَنَّ الْجَنَّةَ وَجَبَتْ لَهُ.

«33»- 'dda, 'Uddat al-Da'i: from 'Ali, peace be upon him, who said: The sitting of an hour with the scholars is more beloved to God than the worship of a thousand years; and the looking upon the scholar is more beloved to God than a year's retreat in the Sacred House; and the visiting of the scholars is more beloved to God the Exalted than seventy circumambulations around the House, and more excellent than seventy pilgrimages and lesser pilgrimages, righteous and accepted. And God raises for him seventy degrees, and God sends down upon him mercy, and the angels bear witness for him that the Garden has become due for him.

«34»- مُنْيَةُ الْمُرِيدِ، قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صلى اللّٰه عليه و آله إِذَا مَرَرْتُمْ فِي رِيَاضِ الْجَنَّةِ فَارْتَعُوا قَالُوا يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ وَ مَا رِيَاضُ الْجَنَّةِ قَالَ حَلَقُ الذِّكْرِ فَإِنَّ لِلَّهِ سَيَّارَاتٍ مِنَ الْمَلَائِكَةِ يَطْلُبُونَ حَلَقَ الذِّكْرِ فَإِذَا أَتَوْا عَلَيْهِمْ حَفُّوا بِهِمْ.

«34»- Munyat al-Murid: The Messenger of God — may God bless him and his family — said: When you pass through the meadows of the Garden, then graze. They said: O Messenger of God, and what are the meadows of the Garden? He said: The circles of remembrance; for God has roving companies of angels who seek out the circles of remembrance, and when they come upon them they encompass them.

قال بعض العلماء حلق الذكر هي مجالس الحلال و الحرام كيف يشتري و يبيع و يصلي و يصوم و ينكح و يطلق و يحج و أشباه ذلك.

Some of the scholars said: the circles of remembrance are the gatherings of the lawful and the unlawful — how one buys and sells, and prays, and fasts, and marries, and divorces, and performs the pilgrimage, and the like of that.