Saidina Ali A.S
Resignation to the Will of God is the cure of the disease of the heart. | |
The word of God is the medicine of the heart. | |
Lead such a life, that, when you die, the people may mourn you, and while you are alive they long for your company. | |
The days of life pass away like clouds, so do good while you are alive. | |
Of all the follies the greatest is to love the world. | |
Opportunity is swift of flight but slow to return. | |
Pride, cowardice, and miserliness are bad for me but good for women. | |
The most happy is he to whom God has given a good wife. | |
He who knows himself knows God. | |
Do not soil your conscience for anything but heaven | |
The disease of the heart is worse than the disease of the body. | |
To fight against one's desires is the greatest of all fights. | |
The strongest amongst you is he who subdues his self. | |
Wealth and greed are the roots of all evils. | |
Riches without faith are the greatest poverty. | |
A man's worth depends upon the nobility of his aspirations. | |
Knowledge enlivens the soul. | |
The learned lives, although he dies. | |
The sum total of excellence is knowledge. | |
To respect the learned is to respect God. | |
Generosity hides shortcomings. | |
The wealth of a miser is as useless as a pebble. | |
Desire is one's most inveterate enemy. | |
Those who walk on the surface of the earth shall one day be interred in it. | |
Every breath of man brings him nearer to death. | |
People are asleep as long as they are alive, they are awakened when they die. | |
Patience is the fruit of faith. | |
Virtue never dies. | |
A man's glory from his virtue is greater than the glory of his pedigree. | |
No shelter is safer than piety. | |
A man's behavior is the index of his mind. | |
Courtesy costs nothing but buys everything. | |
Clemency graces power. | |
Jealousy devours virtue as fire devours fuel | |
He that lends a listening ear to reproach is one of those that deserve reproach. | |
Forgiveness is she crown of greatness. | |
Carnal appetites are nets spread by the devil. | |
Every arrow does not hit the mark, nor every prayer granted. | |
Ostentatiousness spoils prayers. | |
Fear none but your sins. | |
He who praises you murders you. | |
A man who praises himself displays his deficiency of intellect. | |
Honor your parents and your sons will honor you. | |
A man is hid under his tongue. | |
The tongue of a wise man lies behind his heart. | |
The tongue pierces deeper than the spear. | |
He who purifies his heart from doubt is a believer. | |
The opinion of a wise man is an oracle. | |
To seek counsel is to go to the fountain of guidance. | |
Association with a fool is tyrannical to the soul. | |
God hastens the fall of tyrants. | |
Tyranny leads to moral cowardice. | |
A tyrant's success is his moral defeat. | |
It is better to die than to beg. | |
When a man begs he loses his faith. | |
Hajj is the Jihad of every believer in faith. | |
A wise enemy is better than a foolish friend. | |
Silence is the best reply to a fool. | |
The best speech is one that is short and reasonable. | |
Speech is like a medicine, a small dose of which cures but an excess of which kills. | |
He that has no courage has no religion. | |
His grief is long whose hope is short. | |
The right of freedom of speech consists in speaking the truth. | |
Repentance washes away sins. | |
Folly is an incurable disease. | |
To assist the wrong is to oppress the right. | |
Sinning is a disease, repentance is its medicine, and abstinence from it a sure cure. | |
Sorrow makes a man old before his time. | |
Pride impedes progress and mars greatness. | |
To forgive is the crown of greatness. | |
He who understands humanity seeks solitude. | |
Right is the best argument. | |
Misrepresentation spoils narration. | |
As a man's wisdom increases, so his desire to speak decreases. | |
He who seeks to do justice with men, let him desire for them what he desires for himself. | |
The greatest sin is the sin that the sinner considers to be ordinary. | |
Contentment is the asset which is never exhausted. | |
Governments are a trial for men. | |
He who fights against the truth, the truth will defeat him. | |
Finding fault in others is one's greatest fault. | |
Haste is a species of madness. | |
Greed is perpetual enslavement. | |
He who does not know his own worth is doomed to destruction. | |
The best investment is one with which duties are performed. | |
Anger is a fire kindled, he who restrains anger extinguishes the fire; he who gives vent to it is the first to be consumed by such fire. | |
Jihad is the highway of prosperity. | |
None is more solitary than a miser. | |
Knowledge is the ornament of the rich, and the riches of the poor. | |
Knowledge is the sum total of excellence. | |
He who teaches you a letter binds you with a fetter of gratitude. | |
As long as we do not hope, we do not fret. | |
He who indulges in jokes and loose fall, loses a part of his wisdom. | |
Truth is bitter, but its result is sweet; falsehood appears to be sweet but it is poisonous in its effect. | |
Miserliness is the root of many evils. | |
Knowledge and practice are twins, and both go together. There is no knowledge without practice, and no practice without knowledge. | |
He who dissembles plays with his honor. | |
When God wants to humiliate a person He deprives him of knowledge. | |
When your power increases, decrease your desires accordingly. | |
He who listens to a backbiter loses a friend. | |
It is no justice to decide a case on mere conjecture. | |
He who does not know his own worth is deemed to ignominy. | |
He who practices thrift would never be in want. | |
He who does not know should not be ashamed to learn. | |
Patience is to faith, what head is to the body. When patience goes, faith goes, when head goes, the body goes. | |
The grace of God is the best guide. | |
A good disposition is the best companion. | |
Wisdom is the best friend. | |
Good breeding is the best inheritance. | |
There is nothing more hateful than pride. | |
Be among men like bee among birds. | |
Mix with the people with your tongue, but be separate from them in your deeds. | |
Be generous but do not be a spendthrift. | |
Do not run after the world, let the world run after you. | |
A wise man is he who does not despair of the bounty and mercy of God. | |
He who is aware of his own faults is oblivious of the faults of others. | |
What the eye sees the heart preserves. | |
The vision of the eye is limited; the vision of the heart transcends all barriers of time and space. | |
Do not be misled by appearances for these are apt to be deceptive. | |
Do not have too many irons in the fire; concentrate on one thing at a time. | |
What you do not like for your self, do not like it for others. | |
Contentment is the treasure which is never exhausted. | |
The advice of old men is dearer than the bravery of young men. | |
That knowledge is superficial which is merely on the tongue. That knowledge is real which demonstrates itself in your practice. | |
Waste of time is one's greatest loss. | |
He who knows to keep his secret knows the way to success. | |
Foresight is the way to safety. | |
No relationship is stronger than the relationship that exists between man and God. | |
Enlighten the heart with prayers. | |
Strengthen your heart with faith. | |
Suppress all lust with piety. | |
Do not sell the Hereafter for the world. | |
Do not speak in a state of ignorance. | |
Refrain from unnecessary talk. | |
Do not tread the path from which you can apprehend the danger of running astray. | |
In the affairs of God, do not be afraid of the accusations of the evil mongers. | |
In all that you do seek the protection of God. | |
Do not covet what is undesirable. | |
If you seek the truth neither stray from the right path, nor be assailed by doubts. | |
Do not become a slave of your desires. | |
That wealth is no wealth which brings dishonor. | |
Whatever harm accrues of silence can be remedied but whatever harm is done because of speech cannot be remedied. | |
It is better to restrain your desires than to stretch your hand before others. | |
A little that is earned because of honest labor is better than a larger amount gained through dishonest means. | |
Guard well your secret. | |
He who seeks more than what is necessary indulges in error. | |
To oppress the weak is the worst tyranny. | |
Do not bank on false hopes for that is the capital of the dead. | |
A wise man takes a lesson even from a minor lapse. | |
Overpower desires and suspicions by patience and faith. | |
He who does not take the middle course strays. | |
A stranger is he who has no friends. | |
When hopes are frustrated despair becomes the way of life. | |
He who trusts the world, the world betrays him. |