The Characteristics of True Shiites; Faith in the Words of Imam Ali, the Commander of the Faithful (25)

According to Imam Ali, the Commander of the Faithful, patience, certainty, justice and jihad are the four pillars of faith. The two factors of motivation and cognition have a leading role in any completely personal and voluntary action. Imam Ali has stated the factor of motivation in the form of patience and the factor of knowledge in the form of certainty. The consistency of human social behaviors is achieved through respecting other people's rights, which is interpreted as "justice". Of course, some people do not pay attention to the values, laws and rights of others. In its broadest sense, the believer's reaction against them is jihad, which has four branches: enjoining good, forbidding evil, perseverance and loyalty in jihad, and enmity with the wicked. The Prophet says: «فمن امر بالمعروف شد ظهور المومنین، ومن نهی عن المنکر ارغم انوف الکافرین، ومن صدق فی المواطن قضی ما علیه، ومن شنئ الفاسقین وغضب لله غضب الله له وارضاه یوم القیامه»؛ So whoever enjoins what is right, accompanies the believers and empowers them; whoever forbids what is evil, defeats the disbelievers; whoever is truthful, does what is right for him; whoever hates the evildoers and gets angry in the cause of God, then God will be angry for him (against the wrongdoers) and will make him happy on the Day of Resurrection.