Re: Sayings of Pious People
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1- Silence will create respect and dignity; justice and fairness will bring more friends; benevolence and charity will enhance prestige and position; courtesy will draw benevolence; service of mankind will secure leadership and good words will overcome powerful enemies.
2- Give to your fellow believer your blood and your property and to your enemy your justice and fairness.
3- There is no wealth like reason, no poverty like ignorance, no heritage like culture and no aid like consultation.
4- Associate with people in such a way that when you have passed away they will cry for you, and while you are alive they will seek your company.
5- Islam is submission and submission is trust, trust is faith and faith is acceptance, acceptance is responsibility and responsibility is work (action).
6- Imam Ali's garment was very old with patches on it. When somebody drew his attention towards it, he replied, " Such dresses, when worn by men of status make them submissive to Allah and kind-hearted towards others and the faithful Muslims can conveniently follow the example ".
1- The wise aim at perfection, the foolish aim at wealth.
2- A believer who is calm in a commotion is patient in distress and grateful in prosperity.
3- Accusation of an innocent person is bigger than the universe. Justice is wider than the earth. Coveting is hotter than fire. Anticipating help from a stingy person is colder than ice. The mind of a contended person is richer than the ocean. The heart of an unbeliever is harder than a rock. The backbiter is weaker than orphan.
4- Every person who is tempted to go astray does not deserve punishment.
5- Greed is permanent slavery.
6- Every breath you take is a step closer towards death.
7- The first opinion of the person of intellect is the last opinion of an ignorant person.
8- If you overpower your enemy, then pardon him by way of thankfulness to Allah, for being able to subdue him.
9- To render relief to the distressed and to help the oppressed make amends for great sins.
10- Failures are often the results of timidity and fears; disappointments are the results of bashfulness; hours of leisure pass away like summer-clouds, therefore, do not waste opportunity of doing good.
11- I want to teach you five of those things which deserve your greatest anxiety to acquire them:
Have hope only in Allah.
Be afraid of nothing but sins.
If you do not know a thing never feel ashamed to admit ignorance.
If you do not know a thing never hesitate or feel ashamed to learn it.
Acquire patience and endurance because their relation with true faith is that of a head to a body, a body is of no use without a head, similarly true faith can be of no use without attributes of resignation, endurance and patience.
1 -When Imam Ali was asked about Faith in Religion, he replied that the structure of faith is supported by four pillars endurance, conviction, justice and jihad
2 - Do not make friendship with a fool because when he will try to do you good he will do you harm;
do not make a miser your friend because he will run away from you at the time of your dire need;
do not be friendly with 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 a mirage he will make you visualize very near the things that are at a great distance and will make you see at the great distance the things which are near to you.
3- Imam Ali (as) wrote to Salman al Farsi (ra) : To continue, surely, the likeness of this world is that of a snake: it is soft to touch, and deadly poisonous. The ignorant child is distracted by it, and the one with understanding and intellect is cautious of it. So turn away from what fascinates you in it, for how little of it stays with you.
4 - If a praying person knew to what extent he was surrounded by His Mercy, he would never raise his head from (the state of) prostration.
5- The tears do not dry up except through hardness of the heart, and the heart do not dry turn hard except by committing a lot of sins.
6- When you feel afraid or nervous to do a thing then do it because the real harm which you may thus receive is less poignant than its expectation and fear."
7 -Bring to mind, by means of your hunger and thirst in it (the month of Ramadan), the hunger and thirst of the Day of Judgement.
8 -Do not be the slave of another person, since Allah has made you a free person.
9 - Do not look at who speaks but look at what he says.
10 - The house in which the Quran is recited and Allah (swt) is remembered, will receive many blessings (barakat) and the angels will be present there, the Shaitan will be far from there; and it (that house) will shine for the people of the sky, just like the stars shine for the people on the Earth.