“The believers have four signs: good humor, tactfulness, kind heartedness and openhandedness”
Ja'far al-Sadiq (702–765) Muslim religious person
Muhammad al-Hur al-Aamili, Wasā'il al-Shī‘ah, vol.6, p. 321
Religous Wisdom
“Harshness is for the good of a boy, soft-heartedness will ruin him.”
Book V, ch. 5.
The Japanese Family Storehouse (1688)
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