Lesson seventy seven :With whom we shall consult ?

Imam Ali( A. S. )says:

لاتُدْخِلَنَّ فِى مَشْوَرَتِكَ بَخِيلًا يَعْدِلُ عَنِ الْفَضْلِ وَ يَعِدُكَ الْفَقْرَ وَ لاجَبَانا يُضْعِفُكَ عن الأُمُورِ وَ لا حَرِيصا يُزَّيِّنُ لَكَ الشّرَة بِالْجَوْرِ

Translation

Do not consult with miser people because they prevent you from service to God's people, and frighten you from poverty, and do not consult with timid people, because they weaken your will for performing important works and also do not consult with greedy persons, because they beautify injustice to you..

Brief description

Consultation is one of the important Islamic instructions, but as consultation with eligible persons helps in improvement of correct programs, consultation with those who have clear weak points is harmful and gives an adverse result. Thus Imam( A. S. )recommends strictly to avoid choosing three groups as consultant specially in important social affairs.

Those who are miser, timid and greedy. One of them prevents man from munificence of divine graces, and the other weakens his will, and the third encourages man to violate rights of others for more greed.