48. Imām ‘Ali (a.s.) said: “The worst of children is a disobedient one.”1
49. Imām al-Sādiq (a.s.) said: “Beware of doing acts that would make others scorn us, for a father is scorned due to the acts of his bad child.”2
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Beseeching Allah for a Righteous Family
50. al-Kāfi, narrating from Abu Basir: “Imām al-Sādiq (a.s.) told me: “If one of you get married, what does he do?”
I said: “I do not know.”
He (a.s.) said: “When a person decides to get married, he should perform two units of prayer, praise Allah, and then say: “O Allah! I wish to get married, so appoint for me from among the women a wife who is the most chaste, the most protective of her self and of my wealth, the most affluent in her sustenance and the greatest among them in blessings. And grant me a pure child and make him be a righteous successor both in my life and after my death.”3
1.. Ghurar al-Hikam, h. ۵۶۸۸.
2.. al-Kāfi, vol. ۲, p. ۲۱۹, h. ۱۱, narrating from Hāshim al-Kindi.
3.. al-Kāfi, vol. ۳, p. ۴۸۱, h. ۲. Kitāb Man lā Yahdarhu al-Faqih, vol. ۳, p. ۳۹۴, h. ۴۳۸۷, with ‘ordain’ instead of ‘grant’.
