الكِتمانُ

CONCEALMENT

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2– Imam Zayn al-`Aabidin (AS) said, ‘By Allah I would love to sacrifice the meat of my forearm for two vices of our followers: foolishness and little concealment
[of secrets].’
[al-Kafi, v. 2, p. 221, no. 1]

3– Imam al-Baqir (AS) said, ‘By Allah, the most beloved of my companions to me are those who are the most pious, the most knowledgeable, and the most discrete with our speech.’
[al-Kafi, v. 2, p. 223, no. 7]

4– Imam al-Sadiq (AS) said, ‘Our affairs are hidden and veiled with a covenant, so Allah will humiliate whoever discloses us.’
[al-Kafi, v. 2, p. 226, no. 15]

5– Imam al-Sadiq (AS) said, ‘Concealing our secrets is struggling on the path of Allah.’
[Bihar al-Anwar, v. 75, p. 70, no. 7]

6– Imam al-Sadiq (AS) said, ‘Whoever announces our
[private] speech is like one who denies us our rights.’
[al-Kafi, v. 2, p. 370, no. 2]

7– Imam al-Sadiq (AS) said, ‘He who announces our
[private] speech does not kill us accidentally, rather, he kills us intentionally.’
[al-Kafi, v. 2, p. 370, no. 4]

8– Imam al-Sadiq (AS) said, ‘The announcer of a secret is a doubter, and he who speaks about it to those who are unworthy of it is an infidel.’
[al-Kafi, v. 2, p. 371, no. 1]

9– Imam al-Sadiq (AS), with respect to Allah’s verse in the Qur’an: "That, because they would defy the signs of Allah and kill the prophets unjustly"
[Qur’an 2:61] said, ‘By Allah, they did not kill them with their hands, nor did they strike them with their swords, but they listened to their
[private] speeches and publicized them, so they were punished because of it and killed.’
[al-Kafi, v. 2, p. 371, no. 6]

10– Abu Basir narrated, ‘I asked Abu Abdillah
[Imam al-Sadiq] (AS) about numerous narrations and he asked, ‘Have you concealed anything about me?’ So, I was trying to remember if I had, and when he saw how I was, he said, ‘Anything you speak to your companions is fine, but publicizing it is when you say it to those other than your companions.’
[al-Mahasin, v. 1, p. 403, no. 910]

11– Imam Ali (AS) said, ‘Blessed be every unimportant worshipper that no one cares for. He knows people but people do not know him. Allah knows him with satisfaction; they are the lanterns of guidance.’
[al-Kafi, v. 2, p. 225, no. 12]

12– Imam Ali (AS) said, ‘After me there will be dark, blind, obscure afflictions. No one will be saved from them other than a person who is not cared about.’ He was asked: ‘And who is one who is not cared about, O Commander of the Faithful?’ He replied, ‘He who people do not know what is in his self.’
[Ma`ani al-Akhbar, p. 166, no. 1]