the faith of the ear to be the abandonment of listening to disbelief and remaining distant from it and from its people; the faith of the hands to be refraining from striking without right; and the faith of the feet to be striving in fulfilling the needs of the believers.

[218] Al-Hasan b. Shu'bah said in the book Haqa'iq Asrar al-Din: Al-Mufaddal, peace be upon him, narrated that he said: Isma'il came to our master al-Baqir, His glory is might, and said to him: "O our master, from whom do I take the landmarks of my religion?" He said: "Look towards him whom the commoners accuse of heresy, from whom the short-commers dissociate, and whom the delegators deem ignorant, and take from him the landmarks of your religion."

[219] And our master the Shaykh, may Allah make his face radiant, said in his treatise: The Knower, His glory is might, said: "Many a possessor of tattered rags, if he were to swear by Allah, He would surely fulfill his oath."

Our master Abu Sa'id said in his commentary on jurisprudence: It is necessary that you know what he intended by all of that, and let it not be confusing to you lest you fall into it and perish; which is that he be a man lower than you in state,