Monday, November 25, 2024

IMAM ALI (A.S.)'S SAYINGS ON INTELLIGENCE (AQL)

 

The intelligent person is one who fetters his tongue.

The intelligent person who covers up sins with forgiveness.

The intelligent person who forsakes lust and sells his world for his Hereafter.

The intelligent person does not speak when needs to or to present his case.

The intelligent person is one who abstains himself from sins and keeps himself free from faults.

The intelligent person is one who fetters his tongue except from remembrance and extolment of Allah.

The intelligent person who opposes his vain desires in obedience to His Lord.

The intelligent person is one who performs acts of kindness and puts his efforts in its correct place.

When the intelligent one is quiet, he reflects and when he speaks, he remembers and extols Allah and when he observes, he takes lessons.

The intelligent person is one who suspects his own opinion.

The intelligent person is one who abstains from the pleasures of a lowly, perishing world and desires the sublime, everlasting, lofty Paradise.

The intelligent person is one who puts things in their right places.

The intelligent person acts when he knows and when he acts, he does so sincerely, and when he becomes sincere, he secludes himself from others.

The intelligent person is one who guards his tongue from backbiting.

The intelligent person survives in his work and shortens his hopes.

The intelligent person is one who overcomes his vain desires.

The intelligent person is neither pushed to extreme by violence nor is he hampered by weakness.  

The intelligent person is one who controls himself when he gets angry, when he desires and when he is frightened.

The intelligent person charges himself with performing what is obligatory upon him.

The intelligent person is one who does not waste his time and energy in that which does not benefit him here and Hereafter.

The most intelligent person is one who follows wise people.

The intelligent person who is modest, virtuous, and fearful one.

The most intelligent person is the one who forgives and accepts the excuses of others most.

The most intelligent is the one who is the most submissive and closest to Allah.

The most intelligent of people is the one who sees his own faults and is blind to other people’s faults.

The most intelligent of people is the one to whom is most considering of the consequences.

Verily, it behooves the intelligent one to be cautious of death in this world and prepare before it arrives.  

                              (6/24)                                                                              TAHAWWUR ALI MIRZA

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