Robert A. Heinlein book Sixth Column
Source: Sixth Column (1949; originally serialized in 1941), Chapter 5 (p. 57)
“Three things take the slave to God's pleasure:”
1) Increase in seeking forgiveness
2) Gentleness
3) Increased charity giving
Misnad al-Imām al-Jawād, p. 247
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