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Two kinds of greedy people never get satisfied; the seeker of knowledge and the seeker of this world — Ali Ibn Abi Talib
Safety lies in silence. It is easier to rectify what you miss by silence, than to secure what you lose by speaking. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib
If what you achieve today is equal to what you achieved yesterday, then you are at a loss. And if what you have achieved today is less than what you achieved yesterday, then you are deprived from the Almighty's blessings. Anyone who is not progressing, is in fact regressing, and if you are regressing, then you might as well be dead. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib
I am the guide and the guided. I am the father of the orphans and the destitute, and the guaridan of the widows. I am the refuge of the weak person and the haven of every fearful one. I am the leader of the believers to paradise. I am the strong rope of Allah(swt); I am Allah's firmest handle and the word of Godwariness. I am the eye of Allah(swt), His truthful tongue and His hand. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib
Always consider your intellect to be lacking; otherwise too much faith in it surely leads to error. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib
To maintain nice relation with the people is half of intelligence, nice questioning is half of knowledge, and nice domestic arrangements is half of the management of livelihood. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib
Don't engage your heart in grief over the past or you wont be ready for what is coming. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib
Allah's Generosity is connected to gratitude, and gratitude is linked to increase in His generosity. The generosity of Allah will not stop increasing unless the gratitude of the servant ceases — Ali Ibn Abi Talib
Be afraid of a dignified man when he is hungry and a wicked man when his belly is full. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib
I wonder at a man who loses hope of salvation when the door of repentance is open for him. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib
Know you that Allah has made Islam the most sublime path for attainment of His supreme pleasure and the highest standards of his worship and obedience. He has favoured it with noble precepts, exalted principles, undoubtable arguments, unchallengeable supremacy and undeniable wisdom. It is up to you to maintain the eminence and dignity granted to it by the Lord, to follow it sincerely, to do justice to its articles of faith and belief, to obey implicitly its tenets and orders and to give it the proper place in your lives. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib
Either you are just or unjust. If you are just, then you will not keep aloof from the people, but will listen to them and meet their requirements. But if you are unjust, the people themselves will keep away from you. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib
Thy lot or portion of life is seeking after thee; therefore be at rest from seeking after it. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib
If you are greeted then return the greetings more warmly. If you are favored, then repay the obligation manifold; but he who takes the initiative will always excel in merit. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib
Often your utterances and expressions of your face leak out the secrets of your hidden thoughts. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib
One who rushes madly after inordinate desire, runs the risk of encountering destruction and death. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib
A moment of patience in a moment of anger prevents a thousand moments of regret. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib
Never explain yourself to anyone, because the one who likes you would not need it, and the one dislikes you wouldn't believe it. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib
Asceticism is not that you should not own anything, but that nothing should own you. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib
Understanding the knowledge and wisdom of the Qur'an is by far, higher than memorizing. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib
There are so many highly esteemed ones who became miserable and humiliated just because of their bad temper and morals; and humble people who have attained eminence and the highest honors because of good temper and morals. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib
Greed takes a person to the watering place but gets him back without letting him drink. It undertakes responsibility but does not fulfill it. Often the drinker gets choked before quenching his thirst. The greater the worth of a thing yearned for, the greater is the grief for its loss. Desires blind the eyes of understanding. The destined share would reach him who does not approach it. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib
If you want to test someone's character, give him respect. If he has good character, he will respect you more, if he has bad character, he will think is the best of all. — Imam Ali Ibn Abi Talib
Your cure is within you, yet you do not sense it! Your sickness is from you, yet you do not see it! You consider yourself a small body; Yet encapsulated within you is the entire universe! — Ali Ibn Abi Talib
If all the women over the world have been permitted to be married to only one man, except one woman. He'd love to marry that woman. That is the imprint of man — Ali Ibn Abi Talib
There is no knowledge and science like pondering and thought; and there is no prosperity and advancement like knowledge and science. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib
In this world, man is a target of death, an easy prey to calamities, here every morsel and every draught is liable to choke one, here one never receives a favour until he loses another instead, here every additional day in one's life is a day reduced from the total span of his existence, when death is the natural outcome of life, how can we expect immortality. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib
Fear the sins that you commit in secret, because the Witness of those sins is the Judge Himself! — Ali Ibn Abi Talib
O Malik, people have either a brother of you in the religion, or brother of you in the creation — Ali Ibn Abi Talib
Every breath you take is a step towards death. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib
One who is mild rather than forceful has greater capacity for outreach. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib
The world is darkness; knowledge is light; but knowledge without truth is a mere shadow. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib
There is no greater wealth than wisdom, no greater poverty than ignorance; no greater heritage than culture and no greater support than consultation. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib
It is better to listen to a wise enemy than to seek counsel from a foolish friend. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib
The vision of the eye is limited; the vision of the heart transcends all barriers of time and space. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib
A man's measure is his will. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib
Not every man with a heart is understanding, nor every man with an ear a listener, and nor every man with eyes able to see. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib
Whoever desires Paradise, proceeds towards goodness; whoever fears Hell, refrains from the impulses of passions; whoever believes firmly in death, detests wordly life; and whoever recognises the worldly life, the trials and tribulations (of life) become slight for him. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib
Lead such a life, that, when you die, the people may mourn you, and while you are alive they long for your company. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib
You should desire for others what you desire for yourself, and hate for others what you hate for yourself. Do not oppress, just as you do not like to be oppressed. Do good to others just as you would like good to be done to you. Dislike in yourself what you dislike in others. Accept that treatment from others which you would like others to accept from you. Do not say to others what you do not like to be said to you. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib
If you don't like chickens I don't like you — Ali Ibn Abi Talib
An alert and learned man will take advice from any event. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib
How strange and foolish is man. He looses his health in gaining wealth. Then to regain health he wastes his wealth. He ruins is present while worrying about his future - but weeps in the future by recalling his past. He lives as though death shall never come to him - but dies in a way as if he were never born. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib
There is no wealth like knowledge, no poverty like ignorance. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib
The disease of the heart is worse than the disease of the body. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib
People's hearts are like wild animals. They attach their selves to those that love and train them. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib
Do not use the sharpness of your speech on your mother who taught you how to speak. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib
A calamity does not descend except due to a sin and it is not lifted except with repentance. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib
Work for this world as if you will live forever and work for the here-after as if you will die tomorrow. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib
Beware of the flight of Blessings,
For nothing that runs away is returned. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib
Half of wisdom is love and friendship with people.(the other half is to guard yourself against the evils of people) — Ali Ibn Abi Talib
If you find that somebody is not grateful for all that you have done for him, then do not get disappointed because often you will find that someone else feels under your obligation though you have done nothing for him and thus your good deeds will be compensated, and Allah will reward you for your goodness. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib
Put aside your pride,
Set down your arrogance,
And remember your grave. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib
How foolish is man! He ruins the present while worrying about the future, but weeps in the future by recalling his past! — Ali Ibn Abi Talib
Many a spoken word is more piercing than an attack. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib
Work for a Better Life as if you live forever,
And work for Better End as if you die tomorrow — Ali Ibn Abi Talib
The emaan of a person cannot be true until he has more trust in that which is in Allah's Hands than that which is in his own hands. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib
Bear sorrows and calamities patiently, otherwise you will never be happy. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib
A girl is a good deed and a boy is a bounty. Good deeds are rewarded while people are held accountable for bounties. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib
Hate no one, no matter how much they've wronged you. Live humbly, no matter how wealthy you become. Think positively, no matter how hard life is. Give much, even if you've been given little. Keep in touch with the ones who have forgotten you, and forgive who has wronged you, and do not stop praying for the best for those you love. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib
To make one good action succeed another, is the perfection of goodness. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib
Justice is putting everything in its proper place — Ali Ibn Abi Talib
Everyone who is taken by death asks for more time, while everyone who still has time makes excuses for procrastination. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib
The wiser a man is, the less talkative will he be. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib
A friend cannot be considered a friend until he is tested in three occasions: in timeof need, behind your back, and after your death. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib
People are of two types, they are either your brothers in faith or your equals in humanity. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib
The one who has no control over his desires has no control over his mind. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib
Had there not been five bad qualities, all the people would have been righteous. Contentment with ignorance; love for worldly life; miserliness inspite of much wealth; ostentation in (good) deeds; and pride in their own intelligence. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib
You are as much able as you know — Ali Ibn Abi Talib
Do not share the knowledge with which you have been blessed with everyone in general, as you do with some people in particular; and know that there are some men in whom Allah, may He he glorified, has placed hidden secrets, which they are forbidden to reveal. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib
Love is an illness which doesn't have good nor recompense. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib
O World, try to deceive someone else. Are you trying to tempt me or attract me? No way! I divorce you irrevocably. Your time is short and you are insignificant. Alas! The provision is little, the journey is long and the way is lonely. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib
The worst of our faults is our interest in other people's faults. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib
I will be patient till even patience tires of my patience. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib
The most helpless person is the one who is helpless in reforming himself. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib
The relation of patience to iman is like the relation of the head to the body. If the head is chopped off, the body becomes useless. Then he raised his voice and said: Certainly, the one who has no patience has no iman, and patience is like a riding-beast that nevers gets tired — Ali Ibn Abi Talib
Be a good man to Allah and a bad man to yourself (desires); and be one of the commoners among the people — Ali Ibn Abi Talib
A poor man is like a foreigner in his own country. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib
Hide the good you do, and make known the good done to you. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib
He who guards his secrets retains control in his own hands — Ali Ibn Abi Talib
Justice is better than courage as if everyone is fair to others, then there will be no need for courage. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib
The most precious wealth is wisdom, and the most miserable poverty is stupidity. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib
Awaken your heart to kindness and mercy for the people and love and tenderness for them. Never, never act with them like a predatory beast which seeks to be satiated by devouring them, for the people fall into two categories: they are either your brethren in faith or your kindred in creation ... Do not ever say, 'I have been given authority' or 'My command should be obeyed.' Because it corrupts the heart, consumes one's faith, and invites calamities. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib
Know thyself, and thou shalt know God. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib
Do not be misled by appearances for these are apt to be deceptive. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib
The real Muslim is the one who prefers speaking the truth even when it is ruinous to him over lying even when it benefits him, and who finds inner peace in doing so. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib
whoever prolongs his desire ruins his actions — Ali Ibn Abi Talib
If one night you see someone committing a sin, tomorrow do not look at him as a sinner. He may have repented during the night and you did not know. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib
True friends are a single soul divided between different bodies. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib
Contentment is a wealth that is never exhausted — Ali Ibn Abi Talib