If a believer enrages his brother, it means that he leaves
him.
The worst comrade is he for whom formality must be observed.
Allah has not made it obligatory on the ignorant to learn
till He has made it obligatory on the learned to teach.
The worst sin is that which the committer takes it lightly.
Contentment is a wealth that does not exhaust.
The fighter in the way of Allah who gets martyred would not
get a greater reward than he who remains chaste despite means. It is possible
that chaste person may become one of the angels.
There is no good in silence over matters involving wisdom
just as there is no good in speaking with ignorance.
Unity means that you do not subject Him to the limitations
of your imaginations and justice means that you do not lay any blame on Him.
Two types of persons will fall into ruin over me: The one
who loves exaggerates and the other who lays and baseless blames.
Backbiting is the tool of the helpless.
Forbearance and endurance are twins and they are the product
of high courage.
Belief means you should prefer truth when it harms you
rather than falsehood when it benefits you; your words should not be more than your
action and you should fear Allah when speaking about others.
Two greedy persons never get satisfied, the seeker of
knowledge and the seeker of this world.
Is there no freeman who can leave this chewed morsel (of the
world) to those who like it? Certainly, the price for yourself is Paradise. Therefore,
do not sell yourself except for Paradise.
What has a man to do with vanity. His origin is semen and
his end are a carcass while he cannot feed himself nor ward off death.
Your turning away from him who inclines towards you is a
loss of your share of advantage while your inclining towards him who turns away
from you is humiliation for yourself.
Whenever a man cuts a joke, he separates away a bit from his
wit.
Whoever maintains his own respect in view, his desires
appear light to him.
Whoever regards small distresses as big, Allah involves him
in big ones.
A little that lasts is better than much that brings grief.
What a breaker is sleep for the resolutions of the day.
People are enemies of what they do not know.
Remember pleasures will pass away while the consequences will
stay.
Livelihood is of two kinds: the seeker and the sought.
Therefore, he who hankers after this world death traces him till it turns him out
of it; but he who hankers after the next world, worldly ease itself seeks him till
he receives his livelihood from it.
On the Day of Judgement, the greatest regret will be felt by
man who earned wealth through sinful ways, although inherited by a person whom
spends it in obeying Allah, the Glorified, and will be awarded Paradise on that
account while first one will go to Fire on account of it.
Sources:
Nahjul Balaghah – Part 2 by al-Allama ash-Sharif ar-Razi
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