Ali ibn Abi Talib Quotes - Page 6

Abstinence from sins is better than seeking help afterwards.

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.

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

Glory is for none but the learned, Guided are they - and proofs for seekers of guidance. Every person is measured based on how much of it (knowledge) he mastered, The ignorant are to the learned their enemies, Succeed with knowledge and live energetically forever, Men are all dead, only the possessors of knowledge are truly alive

The outcome of fear is disappointment and shyness is frustration.

One who thinks and reflects develops his foresight and vision.

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

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.

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.

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

Poverty is the worst form of death.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Be a good man to Allah and a bad man to yourself (desires); and be one of the commoners among the people

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.

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.

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

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