Withholding Khums
Imām Riḍā (pbuh) stated, “Paying Khums, is the key of your aliment and livelihood [leads to livelihood]. Also, it cleanses you from sins and it’s a reserve for the Day of Miser (The Day of Reckoning).”
1-Y. Kulaynī, Uṣūl Kāfī, Vol. 1, P. 547.
Fasting
Imām Bāqir (pbuh) stated:
I wonder when a group of people withhold eating some edible things, in order to become healthy, but they do not withhold committing sins to be mentally/ morally healthy!”
1- Ḥ. Al-ʿĀmili, Wasa’il al-Shia,
Artificial jewelries
Why do they make artificial jewelries?!
Some opportunists make a similar product for every valuable and luxurious product! They have made the fake and artificial ones of whatever is originality and value. For example, no one thinks of producing fake 7000 Tumān bills. Unlikely, there are some people who have been producing 50000 fake Tumān bills. Well, this [the second one] has value and status in the eyes of the beloved ones.
Now, as Mahdaviiat is original and very worthy, fraudsters and profiteers are seeking to offer the fake ones; like the false claimants of “Special Helpers Special delegates [of the Imām], and being Imām Zamān (mGehr)!!!