1. Ali ibn Ibrahim has narrated from his father and a number of our people have narrated from Ahmad ibn Muhammad all from Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn abu Nasr from Aban from a man from abu Ja’far (a.s.) who has said the following: “The Messenger of Allah has said, ‘If you find five things, then seek refuge to Allah against them: indecency has never become manifest in a people to the limit of an open performance, but that a plague and such pains that were never experienced before by their ancestors will appear among them. People who cheat in weighing and measurements face a famine, harsh conditions of living and injustice of the king. If a people deny payment of al- Zakat (charity) they will be denied rains from the skies. Were it not for the existence of animals no rain would come down upon them. If a people disregard the covenant of Allah, and the Messenger of Allah, Allah will make dominant over them their enemy and will take away certain items of their possession. If a people judge their cases by that which is not from Allah, the Most Majestic, the Most Holy, Allah, the Most Majestic, the Most Holy, will make them to suffer a civil war.’”