Fourth Infallible Sayings

• Be prepared for your traveling (for Akhira), and keep ready your necessity before your death comes.
• If you fail to obtain something of worldly benefit, take it as if the thought of it had never crossed your mind at all.
• Never did a nation resort to mutual counsel except that they were guided by it towards maturity.
• It is love which brings closer those who are remote by ancestry, and it is (the absence of) love which causes dissociation between those who are related by ancestry.
• Opportunity is something which is quick to vanish and late to return.
• I wonder about the person who contemplates about his nutrition but he does not consider (the food of) his intellect. Thus, he avoids of what hurts him in his stomach but he lets his mind to be filled with what destroys him.