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460 | QUOTES | QUOTE-513.txt | 406. Amir al-mu'minin, peace be upon him, said: How good it is for the rich to show humility before the poor to seek reward from Allah, but better than that is the haughtiness of the poor towards the rich with trust in Allah. |
461 | QUOTES | QUOTE-514.txt | 407. Amir al-mu'minin, peace be upon him, said: Allah does not grant wisdom to a person except that some day He will save him from ruin with its help. |
462 | QUOTES | QUOTE-515.txt | 408. Amir al-mu'minin, peace be upon him, said: Whoever clashes with Truth would be knocked down by it. |
463 | QUOTES | QUOTE-516.txt | 409. Amir al-mu'minin, peace be upon him, said: The heart is the book of the eye. |
464 | QUOTES | QUOTE-517.txt | 410. Amir al-mu'minin, peace be upon him, said: Fear of Allah is the chief trait of human character. |
465 | QUOTES | QUOTE-518.txt | 411. Amir al-mu'minin, peace be upon him, said: Do not try the sharpness of your tongue against Him Who gave you the power to speak, nor the eloquence of your speaking against Him Who set you on the right path. |
466 | QUOTES | QUOTE-519.txt | 412. Amir al-mu'minin, peace be upon him, said: It is enough for your own discipline that you abstain from what you dislike from others. |
467 | QUOTES | QUOTE-52.txt | O my son, learn four things and (a further) four things from me. Nothing will harm you if you practise them. That the richest of riches is intelligence; the biggest destitution is foolishness; the wildest wildness is vanity and the best achievement is goodness of the moral character. |
468 | QUOTES | QUOTE-520.txt | 413. Amir al-mu'minin, peace be upon him, said: One should endure like free people, otherwise one should keep quiet like the ignorant. |
469 | QUOTES | QUOTE-521.txt | 414. Amir al-mu'minin, peace be upon him, said: In another tradition it is related that Imam (A.S.) said to al-Ash'ath ibn Qays by way of condolence on the death of his son: Either endure like great people or else you will forget like animals. |
470 | QUOTES | QUOTE-522.txt | 415. Amir al-mu'minin, peace be upon him, said about the world: It deceives, it harms and it passes away. Allah, the Sublime, did not approve it as a reward for His lovers nor as a punishment for His enemies. In fact, the people of this world are like those riders that as soon as they alighted the driver called out to them and they marched off. |
471 | QUOTES | QUOTE-523.txt | 416. Amir al-mu'minin, peace be upon him, said to his son al-Hasan (peace be upon him): O my son, do not leave anything of this world behind you, because you will be leaving it for either of two sorts of persons: Either a person who uses it in obeying Allah, in this case he will acquire virtue through what was evil for you, or it will be a person who uses it in disobeying Allah and in that case he will be earning evil with what you collected for him, and so you will be assisting him in his sinfulness; and neither of these two deserves to be preferred by you over yourself. |
472 | QUOTES | QUOTE-524.txt | Sayyid ar-Razi says: This saying is also related in another version thus: |
473 | QUOTES | QUOTE-525.txt | Whatever of this world is now with you was with others before you, and it will pass to some others after you. Thus, you are collecting things for either of two sorts of men: a man who uses whatever you collected in obedience of Allah and thus acquired virtues with what was evil for you, or a man who uses it in disobeying Allah, so you will be getting evil for what you collected. Neither of these two is such that you should prefer him over your own self, or you may burden yourself for his own sake. Therefore, hope for the mercy of Allah for him who has passed away and for Divine livelihood for him who survives. |
474 | QUOTES | QUOTE-526.txt | 418. Amir al-mu'minin, peace be upon him, said: Clemency is (like) a kinsfolk. |
475 | QUOTES | QUOTE-527.txt | 419. Amir al-mu'minin, peace be upon him, said: How wretched the son of Adam is! His death is hidden, his ailments are concealed, his actions are preserved, the bite of a mosquito pains him, choking causes his death and sweat gives him a bad smell. |
476 | QUOTES | QUOTE-528.txt | 421. Amir al-mu'minin, peace be upon him, said: It is enough if your wisdom distinguishes for you the path of your going astray from the path of your guidance. |
477 | QUOTES | QUOTE-529.txt | 422. Amir al-mu'minin, peace be upon him, said: Do good and do not regard any part of it small because its small is big and its little is much. No one of you should say that another person is more deserving than I in doing good. Otherwise, by Allah, it would really be so. There are people of good and evil. When you would leave either of the two, others will perform them. |
478 | QUOTES | QUOTE-53.txt | O my son, you should avoid making friends with a fool because he may intend to benefit you but may harm you; you should avoid making friends with a miser because he will run away from you when you need him most; you should avoid making friends with a sinful person because he will sell you for nought; and you should avoid making friends with a liar because he is like a mirage, making you feel far things near and near things far. |
479 | QUOTES | QUOTE-530.txt | 423. Amir al-mu'minin, peace be upon him, said: Whoever set right his inward self, Allah sets right his outward self Whoever performs acts for his religion, Allah accomplishes his acts of this world. Whoever's dealings between himself and Allah are good, Allah turns the dealings between him and other people good. |
480 | QUOTES | QUOTE-531.txt | 424. Amir al-mu'minin, peace be upon him, said: Forbearance is a curtain for covering, and wisdom is a sharp sword. Therefore, conceal the weaknesses in your conduct with forbearance and kill your desires with your wisdom. |
481 | QUOTES | QUOTE-532.txt | 425. Amir al-mu'minin, peace be upon him, said: There are some creatures of Allah whom Allah particularizes with favours for the benefit of the people, therefore He places them in their hands so long as they give them to others; but when they deny them to others He takes away the favours from them and sends them to others. |
482 | QUOTES | QUOTE-533.txt | 426. Amir al-mu'minin, peace be upon him, said: It does not behove a man to have trust in two positions, health and riches, because there is many a man whom you see healthy but he soon falls sick and many a man whom you see rich but soon turns destitute. |
483 | QUOTES | QUOTE-534.txt | 427. Amir al-mu'minin, peace be upon him, said: Whoever complains about a need to a believer, it is as though he has complained about it to Allah; but whoever complains about it to an unbeliever it is as though he complained about Allah. |
484 | QUOTES | QUOTE-535.txt | 428. Amir al-mu'minin, peace be upon him, said on the occasion of an 'Id (Muslim feast day): It is an 'Id for him whose fasting Allah accepts and of whose prayers He is appreciative; and (in fact) every day wherein no sin of Allah is committed is an 'Id. 91 |
485 | QUOTES | QUOTE-536.txt | 429. Amir al-mu'minin, peace be upon him, said: On Judgement Day the greatest regret will be felt by man who earned wealth through sinful ways, although inherited by a person who spends it in obeying Allah, the Glorified, and will be awarded Paradise on that account while first one will go into Fire on account of it. |
486 | QUOTES | QUOTE-537.txt | 430. Amir al-mu'minin, peace be upon him, said: The worst in (concluding a) transaction and the most unsuccessful in striving, is the man who exerts himself in seeking riches although fate does not help him in his aims and consequently he goes from this world in a sorrowful state while in the next world too he will face its ill consequences. 92 |
487 | QUOTES | QUOTE-538.txt | 431. Amir al-mu'minin, peace be upon him, said: Livelihood is of two kinds: the seeker and the sought. Therefore, he who hankers after this world death traces him till it turns him out of it; but he who hankers after the next world, worldly ease itself seeks him till he receives his livelihood from it. |
488 | QUOTES | QUOTE-539.txt | 432. Amir al-mu'minin, peace be upon him, said: Lovers of Allah are those who look at the inward side of the world while others look at its outward side, they busy themselves with remoter benefits while others busy themselves in immediate benefits. They kill those things which they feared would have killed them, and leave here in this world what they think would leave them. They took amassing of wealth by others as a small matter and regarded it like losing. |
489 | QUOTES | QUOTE-54.txt | 39. Amir al-mu'minin, peace he upon him, said: Supererogatory worship cannot bring about nearness to Allah if it hampers the obligatory. |
490 | QUOTES | QUOTE-540.txt | They are enemies of things others love while love things which others hate. Through them, Quran has been learnt and they have been given knowledge through Quran. Through them Quran is established while through the Quran they are established. They do not see any object of hope above what they hope and no object of fear above what they fear. |
491 | QUOTES | QUOTE-541.txt | 433. Amir al-mu'minin, peace be upon him, said: Remember pleasures will pass away while the consequences will stay. |
492 | QUOTES | QUOTE-542.txt | 434. Amir al-mu'minin, peace be upon him, said: Try (a man) and you will hate him. |
493 | QUOTES | QUOTE-543.txt | 435. Amir al-mu'minin, peace be upon him, said: It is not such that Allah, to Whom belongs Might and Majesty, keeps open the door of gratitude for a person and closes the door of plenty upon him, or that He opens the door of prayer to a person and closes the door of acceptance upon him, or that He opens the door of repentance for a person and closes the door of forgiveness upon him. |
494 | QUOTES | QUOTE-544.txt | 436. Amir al-mu'minin, peace be upon him, said: The most appropriate person for an honourable position is he who descends from the people of honour. |
495 | QUOTES | QUOTE-545.txt | 437. Amir al-mu'minin, peace be upon him, was asked: Which of the two is better; justice or generosity? Amir al-mu'minin, peace be upon him, replied: Justice puts things in their places while generosity takes them out from their directions; justice is the general caretaker while generosity is a particular benefit. Consequently, justice is superior and more distinguished of the two. |
496 | QUOTES | QUOTE-546.txt | 438. Amir al-mu'minin, peace be upon him, said: People are enemies of what they do not know. |
497 | QUOTES | QUOTE-547.txt | 439. Amir al-mu'minin, peace be upon him, said: The whole of asceticism is confined between two expressions of the Quran. Allah, the Glorified says: |
498 | QUOTES | QUOTE-548.txt | Lest distress you yourselves for what escapes you, and be overjoyous for what He has granted you (Quran, 57:23). |
499 | QUOTES | QUOTE-549.txt | Whoever does not grieve over what he misses and does not revel over what comes to him acquires asceticism from both its sides. |
500 | QUOTES | QUOTE-55.txt | 40. Amir a'-mu'minin, peace be upon him, said: The tongue of the wise man is behind his heart, and the heart of the fool is behind his tongue. |
501 | QUOTES | QUOTE-550.txt | 440. Amir al-mu'minin, peace be upon him, said: What a breaker is sleep for resolutions of the day! |
502 | QUOTES | QUOTE-551.txt | 441. Amir al-mu'minin, peace be upon him, said: Governing power is the proving ground for people. |
503 | QUOTES | QUOTE-552.txt | 442. Amir al-mu'minin, peace be upon him, said: No town has greater right on you than the other. The best town for you is that which bears you. |
504 | QUOTES | QUOTE-553.txt | 443. When the news of the death of (Malik) al-Ashtar (may Allah have mercy on him), reached Amir al-mu'minin, peace be upon him, he said: Malik, what a man Malik was! By Allah, if he had been a mountain he would have been a great one (find), and if he had been a stone he would have been hard; no horseman could have reached it and no bird could have flown over it. |
505 | QUOTES | QUOTE-554.txt | 444. Amir al-mu'minin, peace be upon him, said: A little that lasts is better than much that brings grief. |
506 | QUOTES | QUOTE-555.txt | 445. Amir al-mu'minin, peace be upon him, said: If a man possesses a revealing quality wait and see his other qualities. 93 |
507 | QUOTES | QUOTE-556.txt | 447. Amir al-mu'minin, peace be upon him, said: Whoever trades without knowing the rules of religious law will be involved in usury. |
508 | QUOTES | QUOTE-557.txt | 448. Amir al-mu'minin, peace be upon him, said: Whoever regards small distresses as big, Allah involves him in big ones. |
509 | QUOTES | QUOTE-558.txt | 449. Amir al-mu'minin, peace be upon him, said: Whoever maintains his own respect in view, his desires appear light to him. |
510 | QUOTES | QUOTE-559.txt | 450. Amir al-mu'minin, peace be upon him, said: Whenever a man cuts a joke he separates away a bit from his wit. |
511 | QUOTES | QUOTE-56.txt | As-Sayyid ar-Radi says: This sentence has a strange and beautiful meaning. It means that the wise man does not speak with his tongue except after consulting his mind and exercising his imagination, but the fool quickly utters whatever comes to his tongue without thinking. In this way, the tongue of the wise man follows his heart while the heart of the fool follows his tongue. |
512 | QUOTES | QUOTE-560.txt | 451. Amir al-mu'minin, peace be upon him, said: Your turning away from him who inclines towards you is a loss of your share of advantage while your inclining towards him who turns away from you is humiliation for yourself. |
513 | QUOTES | QUOTE-561.txt | 452. Amir al-mu'minin, peace be upon him, said: Riches and destitution will follow presentation before Allah. |
514 | QUOTES | QUOTE-562.txt | 454. Amir al-mu'minin, peace be upon him, said: What has a man to do with vanity. His origin is semen and his end is a carcass while he cannot feed himself nor ward off death.95 |
515 | QUOTES | QUOTE-563.txt | 455. Amir al-mu'minin, peace be upon him, was asked about the greatest poet and he said: The whole group of them did not proceed on the same lines in such a way that we can know the height of their glory; but if it has to be done then it is the "al-Malik ad-dillil" (the mislead king). |
516 | QUOTES | QUOTE-564.txt | 456. Amir al-mu'minin, peace be upon him, said: Is there no free man who can leave this chewed morsel (of the world) to those who like it? Certainly, the only price for yourselves is Paradise. Therefore, do not sell yourself except for Paradise. |
517 | QUOTES | QUOTE-565.txt | 457. Amir al-mu'minin, peace be upon him, said: Two greedy persons never get satiated, the seeker of knowledge and the seeker of this world. |
518 | QUOTES | QUOTE-566.txt | 458. Amir al-mu'minin, peace be upon him, said: Belief means you should prefer truth when it harms you rather than falsehood when it benefits you; your words should not be more than your action and you should fear Allah when speaking about others. |
519 | QUOTES | QUOTE-567.txt | 459. Amir al-mu'minin, peace be upon him, said: Destiny holds sway over (our) predetermination till effort itself brings about ruin. |
520 | QUOTES | QUOTE-568.txt | As-Sayyid ar-Radi says: Something of this meaning has already appeared earlier though in words different from these. |
521 | QUOTES | QUOTE-569.txt | 465. Amir al-mu'minin, peace be upon him, said eulogizing the Ansar : By Allah, they nurtured Islam with their generous hands and eloquent tongues as a year old calf is nurtured. |
522 | QUOTES | QUOTE-57.txt | 41. This very sense has been related from Amir al-mu'minin, peace be upon him, in a different version as follows: |
523 | QUOTES | QUOTE-570.txt | 466. Amir al-mu'minin, peace be upon him, said: The eye is the strap of the rear. |
524 | QUOTES | QUOTE-571.txt | 467. Amir al-mu'minin, peace be upon him, said in one of his speeches: A ruler came into position over them. He remained upright and made them upright till the entire religion put its bosom on the ground. |
525 | QUOTES | QUOTE-572.txt | 468. Amir al-mu'minin, peace be upon him, said: A severe time will come upon people wherein the rich will seize possessions with their teeth although not commanded to do so. Allah the Glorified, says: |
526 | QUOTES | QUOTE-573.txt | Forget not generosity among yourselves (Quran, 2:237). |
527 | QUOTES | QUOTE-574.txt | During this time wicked will rise up while virtuous will remain low and purchases will be made from helpless although the Prophet (S) has prohibited purchasing from the helpless. 98 |
528 | QUOTES | QUOTE-575.txt | 469. Amir al-mu'minin, peace be upon him, said: Two types of persons will fall into ruin over me: The one who loves exaggerates and the other who lays false and baseless blames. |
529 | QUOTES | QUOTE-576.txt | 470. Amir al-mu'minin, peace be upon him, was asked on the Unity of Allah and His justice, when he replied: Unity means that you do not subject Him to the limitations of your imagination and justice means that you do not lay any blame on Him. 100 |
530 | QUOTES | QUOTE-577.txt | 471. Amir al-mu'minin, peace be upon him, said: There is no good in silence over matters involving wisdom just as there is no good in speaking with ignorance. |
531 | QUOTES | QUOTE-578.txt | 472. Amir al-mu'minin, peace be upon him, said in his prayer for seeking rain: O My God, send us rain by submissive clouds not by unruly ones. |
532 | QUOTES | QUOTE-579.txt | 474. Amir al-mu'minin, peace be upon him, said: The fighter in the way of Allah who gets martyred would not get a greater reward than he who remains chaste despite means. It is possible that a chaste person may become one of the angels. |
533 | QUOTES | QUOTE-58.txt | The heart of a fool is in his mouth while the tongue of the wise man is in his heart. |
534 | QUOTES | QUOTE-580.txt | 475. Amir al-mu'minin, peace be upon him, said: Contentment is a wealth that does not exhaust. |
535 | QUOTES | QUOTE-581.txt | As-Sayyid ar-Radi says: Some people have related that this is the saying of the Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him and his descendants. |
536 | QUOTES | QUOTE-582.txt | 476. When Amir al-mu'minin, peace be upon him, put Ziyad ibn Abih in place of Abdullah ibn Abbas over Fars (in Persia) and its revenues, he had a long conversation with him in which he prohibited him from advance recovery of revenue. Therein he said: Act on justice and keep aloof from violence and injustice because violence will lead them to forsake their abodes while injustice will prompt them to take up arms. |
537 | QUOTES | QUOTE-583.txt | 477. Amir al-mu'minin, peace be upon him, said: The worst sin is that which the committer takes lightly. |
538 | QUOTES | QUOTE-584.txt | 478. Amir al-mu'minin, peace be upon him, said: Allah has not made it obligatory on the ignorant to learn till He has made it obligatory on the learned to teach. |
539 | QUOTES | QUOTE-585.txt | 479. Amir al-mu'minin, peace be upon him, said: The worst comrade is he for whom formality has to be observed. 101 |
540 | QUOTES | QUOTE-586.txt | As-Sayyid ar-Radi says: This is because formality is inseparable from hardship and it is an evil that is caused by a comrade for whom formality is observed. Consequently, he is the worst of all comrades. |
541 | QUOTES | QUOTE-587.txt | 480. Amir al-mu'minin, peace be upon him, said: If a believer enrages his brother, it means that he leaves him. |
542 | QUOTES | QUOTE-588.txt | This book was completed in the month of Rajab, in the year 400 A.H. |
543 | QUOTES | QUOTE-589.txt | May Allah send blessings on our master Muhammad the last of the prophets who guided us towards the best path, and his chaste descendants and his companions who are the stars of conviction. |
544 | QUOTES | QUOTE-59.txt | The meaning of both the sayings (40 and 41) is the same. |
545 | QUOTES | QUOTE-6.txt | 6. Amir al-mu'minin, peace be upon him, said: The bosom of the wise is the safe of his secrets; cheerfulness is the bond of friendship; effective forbearance is the grave of short-comings. |
546 | QUOTES | QUOTE-60.txt | 42. Amir al-mu'minin, peace be upon him, said to one of his companions during his sickness: |
547 | QUOTES | QUOTE-61.txt | May Allah make your illness a means for writing off your sins, because there is no reward for sickness but that it erases sins and makes them fall like (dried) leaves. Reward lies in saying by the tongue and doing something with the hands and feet. Certainly, Allah, the Glorified, admits into Paradise by virtue of truthfulness of intention and chastity of heart to whomsoever He wishes from among His creatures. |
548 | QUOTES | QUOTE-62.txt | As-Sayyid ar-Radi says: Amir al-mu'minin is right in saying that there is no reward for sickness as such because compensation is admissible in respect of the acts of Allah, the Sublime, towards his creatures such as grief, illness and the like, whereas reward and recompense becomes admissible against actions by the creature. This is the difference between the two and Amir al-mu'minin has clarified it through his lustrous knowledge and sound view. |
549 | QUOTES | QUOTE-63.txt | 43. Amir al-mu'minin, peace be upon him, said about Khabbab ibn al-Aratt : 16 |
550 | QUOTES | QUOTE-64.txt | May Allah have mercy on Khabbab ibn al-Aratt since he accepted Islam willingly, immigrated (from Mecca) obediently, remained content with what sufficed him, was pleased with Allah and lived the life of a mujahid (holy soldier). |
551 | QUOTES | QUOTE-65.txt | 44. Amir al-mu'minin, peace be upon him, said: Blessed is the person who kept in mind the next life, acted so as to be able to render account, remained content with what sufficed him and remained pleased with Allah. |
552 | QUOTES | QUOTE-66.txt | 45. Amir al-mu'minin, peace be upon him, said: Even if I strike the nose of a believer with this, my sword, for hating me he will not hate me, and even if I pile all the wealth of the world before a hypocrite (Muslim) for loving me he will not love me. This is because it is a verdict pronounced by the tongue of the revered Prophet, may Allah bless him and his descendants, as he said: |
553 | QUOTES | QUOTE-67.txt | O `Ali, a believer will never hate you arid a hypocrite (Muslim) will never love you. 17 |
554 | QUOTES | QUOTE-68.txt | 46. Amir al-mu'minin, peace be upon him, said: The sin that displeases you is better in the view of Allah than the virtue which makes you proud. 18 |
555 | QUOTES | QUOTE-69.txt | 47. Amir al-mu'minin, peace be upon him, said: The worth of a man is according to his courage, his truthfulness is according to his balance of temper, his valour is according to his self-respect and his chasteness is according to his sense of shame. |
556 | QUOTES | QUOTE-7.txt | It is narrated that Amir al-mu'minin said in expressing this meaning that: Mutual reconciliation is the covering for shortcomings; and he who admires himself attracts many opponents against him. 2 |
557 | QUOTES | QUOTE-70.txt | 48. Amir al-mu'minin, peace be upon him, said: Victory is by determination; determination is by the turning over of thoughts; and thoughts are formed by guarding secrets. |
558 | QUOTES | QUOTE-71.txt | 49. Amir al-mu'minin, peace be upon him, said: Fear the attack of a noble person when he is hungry, and that of an ignoble person when he is satiated. 19 |
559 | QUOTES | QUOTE-72.txt | 50. Amir al-mu'minin, peace be upon him, said: The hearts of the people are like wild beasts. Whoever tames them, they would pounce upon him. 20 |