Wise Sayings of Khalifah Imam Ali ibn AbiTalib Al-Hashimi By the 4th Rightful Caliph of Islam
* Fear God and you will have no cause to fear any one * 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 behaviour 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 the 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 * Honour your parents and your sons will honour 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
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