Ali ibn Abi Talib Quotes - Page 6

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• To whatever extent a person's knowledge increases, his attention will be turned more towards his soul.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Soul, Attention, Increase

  "Mustadrak al-Wasāʼil wa-mustanbaṭ al-masāʼil". Book by Ḥusayn Taqī al-Nūrī Ṭabarsī, Volume 11,

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• An alert and learned man will take advice from any event.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Men, Advice, Events

  "'Bihar al-Anwar' ('Seas of Lights')". Hadith book by Mohammad-Baqer Majlesi, Volume 1,

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• Abstinence from sins is better than seeking help afterwards.

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  Helping, Sin, Abstinence

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• 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

  Humble, People, Honor

  "'Bihar al-Anwar' ('Seas of Lights')". Hadith book by Mohammad-Baqer Majlesi, Volume 71,

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• Patience to faith is like the head to the body. The person who has no patience has not faith.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Body, No Patience, Persons

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• Poverty is the worst form of death.

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  Poverty, Form, Worst

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• The outcome of fear is disappointment and shyness is frustration.

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  Disappointment, Frustration, Insightful

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• One who thinks and reflects develops his foresight and vision.

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  Educational, Thinking, Vision

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• 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.

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  People, Unjust, Requirements

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• 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

  Men, Target, World

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• Let me alone, and go in search of someone else.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Let Me, Me Alone

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• A man's behavior is the index of the man, and his discourse is the index of his understanding.

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  Men, Justice, Diversity

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• 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.

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  Wisdom, Nice, Islamic

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• Thy lot or portion of life is seeking after thee; therefore be at rest from seeking after it.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Destiny, Life Is, Thee

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• When wisdom reaches the acme of perfection, it will suppress the vicious instincts and injurious desires.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Perfection, Desire, Instinct

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• To make one good action succeed another, is the perfection of goodness.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Kindness, Perfection, Succeed

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• No one has ever suffered from his people as I have.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  People

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• 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

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  Wisdom, Gratitude, Islamic

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• Associating with the wise and the knowledgeable people adds to the prestige of a person.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Wise, People, Add

  "'Bihar al-Anwar' ('Seas of Lights')". Hadith book by Mohammad-Baqer Majlesi, Volume 78,

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• He who busies himself with things other than improvement of his own self becomes perplexed in darkness and entangled in ruin. His evil spirits immerse him deep in vices and make his bad actions seem handsome.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Beauty, Self, Evil

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• Recitation of the Qur'an without contemplation and thought is futile.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Contemplation, Recitation

  "'Bihar al-Anwar' ('Seas of Lights')". Hadith book by Mohammad-Baqer Majlesi, Volume 92,

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• 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

  Wisdom, Islamic, Men

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• The one from among the Muslims who recites the Qur'an but in the end finds his way to hell, is considerd to be among those that have taken the word of Allah in jest.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Taken, Way, Hell

  "'Bihar al-Anwar' ('Seas of Lights')". Hadith book by Mohammad-Baqer Majlesi, Volume 92,

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• One who is mild rather than forceful has greater capacity for outreach.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Wisdom, Islamic, Capacity

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• One who rushes madly after inordinate desire, runs the risk of encountering destruction and death.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Running, Risk, Desire

  "'Nahj al-Balagha' ('The Peak of Eloquence')". Book by Ali, translated by Askari Jafri,

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