Eyewitness
“Do not say a word, which may make you repent and force you to make excuse.”
—Imam Ali as
May 2012
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“Hospitality promotes worship.”
—Imam Ali as
“Beware of your apologies; for a true believer doesnot sin and does not have to apologize, whereas the hypocrite commits sins every day and apologizes everyday.”
—Imam Ali as
“There are four things that make the heart die: wrong action followed by wrong action, playing around with foolish people, spending a lot of time with women, and sitting with the dead.”
—Imam Ali as
“The one who has an intellect does not openly display it except in one of two situations: when he is furthest away from seeking something in the world, and when he is furthest away from abandoning it.”
—Imam Ali as
“The one who has an intellect finds harshness of life amongst persons of intellect more agreeable than a life of ease amongst the foolish.”
—Imam Ali as
“The man of knowledge is the one who recognizes that what is known is very little compared to what is not known, and as a result he considers himself ignorant, and accordingly he increases his efforts to know more by going out in search of knowledge.”
—Imam Ali as
“Fear Allah in matters concerning orphans. Attend to their nutrition and do not forget their interests in the middle of yours.”
—Imam Ali as
“Anger is insanity; it makes you feel sorry afterwards. However, if you do not feel any remorse afterwards then you are definitely insane.”
—Imam Ali as
“The best deed is the one which you have to force yourself to do.”
—Imam Ali as
“When you fall in poverty, trade with God through charity.”
—Imam Ali as
“The outcome of fear is disappointment and of shyness is frustration.”
—Imam Ali as
“Greed is a permanent slavery.”
—Imam Ali as
“Two kinds of greedy people never get satisfied; the seeker of knowledge and the seeker of this world”
—Imam Ali as
