SAYINGS OF THE INFALLIBLE IMAM MUHAMMAD TAQI AL-JAWAD (A.S.)

Selected sayings of the Imam are reproduced from Hasan bin Ali bin Shu ‘bah al-Harrani’s Yuhaf al-Uqul are as under:

Become steadfast, embrace poverty, reject lust, oppose your passions, and know that you cannot be out of Allah’s sight.

Delay in repentance is deception; excessive pro crastination is perplexity, arrogance against Allah is perdition; and

insistence on committing sins is challenge to Allah’s retribution. “No one can consider himself secure from the retribution of Allah except those who are lost.

Repentance (Tawba) depends on four things; Sincere regrets, verbal Is’tighfar, deeds and determination never to repeat the sin.

Don’t pretend to be Allah’s servant in public and be His enemy in private.

Sincerity is the best of all worships.

Whoever has three things, will never regret; Refraining from haste, consultation, and depending upon Allah when making decisions.

The one who leaves compromise with the people, faces discomfort.

Man’s death due to sins is more than the death by fate, and his living by his benevolence is more than living due to natural lifetime.

Love and friendship are attained by three characteristics; Fairness, accompaniment and sympathy when facing hardships, pure heart and benevolence to others.

To show a matter before preparing for it properly is spoiling it.

Relying on Allah is the price of every valuable thing and the ladder to every treasured thing.

Four things are required to do anything; health, independence, knowledge and Divine assistance.

Three things are performed by the believers; following the Obligatory deeds (Wajibaat), abstaining from sins, and not neglecting the religion.

Delaying repentance is self-deceit, long procrastination is confusion, claiming excuses before Allah is perishment and the insisting on sins is feeling safe from punishment of Allah.

On advising a man, he said, “Make patience your pillow, embrace poverty, refuse desires, contradict fancy, and know that you are always under the eye of Allah.

Do not anticipate matters before their time that you may regret. Do not live just with wishes that your hearts may be hard. Be merciful to the weak and ask for mercy from Allah by being merciful yourself.

Know that piety is honor, knowledge is treasure, and silence is a light.
Please refer to my article titled "The Infallible Imam Muhammad Taqi al-Jawad (a.s.) on this Blog.

Source:  The Life of Imam Muhammad al-Jawad/ al-islam.org., Islamic occasions.com