Rendering relief to the grief stricken and providing
comfort in hardship are the means of atonement for great sins.
O son of Adam, when you see that your Lord, the Glorified,
bestows His favors on you while you are disobeying Him, you should fear Him.
Often your utterances and expressions of your face leak
out the secrets of your hidden thoughts.
When you are ill do not get nervous over it and try as
much as possible to act hopeful.
The best form of devotion to the service of God is not to
make a show of it.
When you have (ultimately) to turn your face away from
this world and must meet death, why wish delay.
Fear! Fear! By Allah, He has hidden your sins so much so
as though He has forgiven.
Anyone who has done a good action is better than his action,
and anyone who has committed a bad deed is worse than the deed itself.
Be generous but not extravagant, be thrifty but not
miserly.
To give up inordinate desires is the best kind of wealth
and fortune.
One who is quick in saying unpleasant things about
others, will himself quickly become a target to their scandal.
One who hopes inordinately impairs the standard of his
work.
Advising Imam Hasan (a.s.), he said: The greatest wealth is
the wisdom and judgement, the greatest poverty comes of stupidity and ignorance,
the worst social element is the vanity, conceit, and self-glorification; the
best nobility of descent exhibits itself in politeness and in refinement of
culture. Do not make fool a friend because he will try to do you good he will do harm; do not make miser your friend,
he will run away from you when you need him; do not make friend of a vicious
and wicked person because he will sell you and your friendship at the cheapest
price; and do not make friend of a liar because like mirage he will make you
visualize things very near which lie at great distance and make you see at
great distance the things which are near to you.
A wise man first thinks and then speaks and a fool speaks
then thinks.
Optional prayers cannot attain the Pleasures of God for
you when compulsory daily prayers are left unperformed.
Advising a sick companion, he said: May Allah make your
illness a means for writing off your sins, because there is no reward in
sickness but that erases sins and makes them fall like (dried) leaves. Reward
lies in saying by the tongue and doing something with the hands and feet.
Certainly, Allah, the Glorified, admits into Paradise by virtue of truthfulness
of intention and chastity of hearts to whomsoever He wishes from among His
creatures.
Blessed is the person who kept in mind the next life,
acted to be able to render account, remained content with what sufficed him and
remained pleased with Allah.
The sin that displeases you is better in the view of
Allah than the virtue which makes you proud.
Value of a man depends upon his courage; his veracity depends
upon his traits of nobility and self-respect and his chastity depends upon his
sense of honor.
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