THE COMMANDER OF THE FAITHFULL, IMAM ALI (A.S.)'S PRICELESS ADVICE TO THE HUMANITY

 

How many are the objects of lessons, but how few the taking of lessons.

Your messenger is the interpreter of your intelligence while your letter is more eloquent in expressing your true self.

A self-respecting man never commits adultery.

A man can sleep on the death of his child but cannot sleep at loss of property.

The belief of a person cannot be regarded as true unless his trust in what is with Allah is more than his trust in what he himself has.

Sometimes the hearts move forward and sometimes they move backward. When they move forward get them to perform the optional (as well), but when they move backward keep them confined to obligatory only.

Throw a stone in return from where it comes to you because evil can be met with evil.

I am the Ya ‘sub (leader) of the believers, while wealth is the leader of the wicked.

Beware of disobeying Allah in solitude because the witness (of that situation) is also the judge.

The age up to which Allah accepts any excuse for a human being is sixty years.

Allah, the Glorified, has fixed the livelihood of the destitute in the wealth of the rich. Consequently, whenever a destitute remains hungry because some rich person has denied (his share). Allah will question them about it.

The sovereign is the lookout guard of Allah on earth.

The person who is approached with a request is free until he promises.

Knowledge is of two kinds – that which is absorbed and that which is just heard. The one that is heard does not give benefit unless it is absorbed.

The beauty of destitution is chastity, and the beauty of riches is gratefulness.

Lack of access to sins is also a kind of chastity.

The dignity of your face is solid but begging dissolves it away: therefore, look carefully before whom you dissolve it.

Knowledge is associated with action. Therefore, he who knows should act, because knowledge calls for action, if there is a response well and good, otherwise it (i.e., knowledge) departs from him.

Certainly, right is weighty and wholesome while wrong is light and unwholesome.

Miserliness contains all other evil vices and is the rein with which one can be led to every evil.

Speak so that you may be known, since man is hidden under his tongue.

Put off boasting, give up self-conceit and remember your grave.

Nearness with people in their manners brings about safety from their evil.