Words of ‘Amir al=Mu’minn, AS to Juwairah

331. Sahl Bin Ziyad, from Dawood Bin Mahraan, from Ali Bin Ismail Al-Maysamy, from a man from Juweyriyya Bin Mus’har who said: I hurried behind Amir-ul-Momineen عليه الصلاة والسلام, so he عليه الصلاة والسلام said to me: ‘O Juweyriyya! Those idiots were not destroyed except by the sound of the shoes behind them which followed them’. I said, ‘I came to ask you عليه الصلاة والسلام about three – about the nobility, and the chivalry, and the intellect’. He عليه الصلاة والسلام said: ‘As for the nobility, so the one whom ‘السُّلْطَانُ’ Allah عز وجل has Ennobled, is noble, and as for the chivalrous, so it is the righteous means for living, and as for the intellect, so the one who fears Allah عز وجل is the intellectual’.