I just finished an article for OneUmmah.net on morality. It’s the first one I’ve finished in several months. Anyway, I am missing one reference, so I started searching my hadith books for it. In the process, I stumbled upon this hadith:
Imam Ja’far as-Sadiq (peace be upon him) narrated that once a man came to the Prophet (may Allah bless him and grant him and his family peace) and asked him to give him a piece of advice. The Prophet asked him three times: “Will you make a point of following the advice if I advise you?”, to which the man responded each time, “Yes, O Prophet of Allah.”
So, the Prophet continued, “Then I advise you that when you intend to carry out an action, consider its consequences first. If they are sound, then go ahead with it, and if they are corrupt, then abandon it.”
– From Wasa’il-al-Shi’a by Shaykh al-Hurr al-Amili in the book “Jihad al-Nafs” #20516.
