“If one of you gives (charity) with his right hand, let him conceal that from his left hand, and if he prays, let him conceal that.”

— Ali al-Hadi

[Baqir Shareef al-Qarashi, Abdullah al-Shahin, The Life of Imam ‘Ali al-Hadi, Study and Analysis, A Maxim from Jesus Christ, 2007, 161]
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imam 829–868

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