and lesser than you in status regarding his worldly life, yet he is nonetheless elevated in his religion, singular, unrecognized by the doubters, and unnoticed by the ignorant. So that is the one who, if he were to swear by Allah, He would surely fulfill his oath.

[220] And from the book Adab 'Abd al-Muttalib, al-Sadiq, His glory is might, said to al-Mufaddal b. 'Umar, peace be upon him: "O Mufaddal, by the One in whose hand is my soul, the believer is more intensely connected to Allah than the ray of the sun."

[221] And on his authority, His glory is might, that he said: "Have you not heard, O Mufaddal, when I say: Verily, when the believer maintains ties with his fellow believer, he has connected himself to the ray ¹ of Allah. And the believer who connects with his fellow believer continues to ascend until he surpasses his own cause to reach the cause of the Gate, thereby becoming an ally between the veils and the gates, existing in the highest rank among the ranks of faith by virtue of the additional ray within him."