So watch over the believers, your brothers in the religion, and protect their secret, and respond to their call, and answer their caller, and aid their sorrowful one, and satiate their hungry one, and protect them, and clothe their naked one, and inspect their sick ones, and escort their funerals, and fulfill their needs, so that your needs become successful.

[21] For it was already narrated: That a man performed the pilgrimage during the days of our master al-Hasan the First, transcended his might, and he had a debt due from a perfumer, and he knew that he was his brother while the perfumer did not know, and the departure of the man drew near, so he came to our master al-Hasan and said to him: O my master, indeed I have a debt due from so-and-so the perfumer, and my departure has drawn near, so if my master sees fit to send to him to make him recognize that I am of his brothers, then let him do so. And our master was circumambulating around the Kaaba with his shoes on, so he took off his shoes and walked with that man barefoot until he came to the perfumer, so when he saw him walking with the possessor of the debt, he stood and extracted what was upon him of the debt, and fulfilled his companion and apologized to him, and our master returned to the circumambulation,