SAYINGS OF AMIRUL MOMINEEN HAZRAT ALI (AS)
1.Amirul Momineen (A.S) said: How wonderful is a man that speaks with
fat, talks with a piece of flesh, hears with a bone and breathes through
a hole.
2.Amirul Momineen (A.S) said: Meet people in such a manner that if
you die they should weep for you and if you live they should long for you.
3.Amirul Momineen (A.S) said: When you gain power over your adversary
pardon him by way of thanks for being able to over-power him.
4.Amirul Momineen (A.S) said: The most helpless of all men is he who
cannot find a few brothers during his age, but still more helpless is he
who finds such a brother but loses him.
5.Amirul Momineen, peace be upon him, said: O' son of Adam when you
see that Allah is bestowing His favours on you while you are disobeying
Him, you should fear Him.
6.Amirul Momineen (A.S) said: Keep walking in your sickness till you
can.
7.Amirul Momineen (A.S) said: Fear! Fear! By Allah, He has hidden your
sins so much so as He has forgiven.
8.Amirul Momineen (A.S) said: The best riches is abandonment of desires.
9.Amirul Momineen (A.S) said: Super numerate prayers cannot bring about
nearness to Allah if they hamper obligatory ones.
10.Amirul Momineen (A.S) said: The tongue of the wise man is behind
his heart and the heart of a fool is behind his tongue.
11.Amirul Momineen (A.S) said to a companion during his sickness: Allah
may make your illness a means for writing off your sins, because there
is no reward for sickness but it erases sins and makes them fall like (dried)
leaves: Reward lies in saying by tongue and doing something with hands
and feet. Certainly Allah, the Glorified admits into Paradise by virtue
of truthfulness of intention and chastity of heart, whomever He wishes
from among His people.
12.Amirul Momineen (A.S) said: Victory is by determination; determination
is by revolving of thoughts and thoughts are formed by guarding secrets.
13.Amirul Momineen (A.S) said: With riches a strange land is homeland,
while with destitution even homeland is a strange land.
14.Amirul Momineen (A.S) said: Contentment is wealth that does not
diminish.
15.Amirul Momineen (A.S) said: Wealth is the fountainhead of passions.
16.Amirul Momineen (A.S) said: Whoever warns you is like one who gives
you good tidings.
17.Amirul Momineen (A.S) said: The tongue is like beast; if it is let
loose, it would devour.
18.Amirul Momineen (A.S) said: Woman is like a scorpion whose grip
is sweet.
19.Amirul Momineen (A.S) said: The people of the world are like travellers
who are being carried while they are asleep.
20.Amirul Momineen (A.S) said: Do not feel ashamed for giving a little,
because refusal is more little than that.
21.Amirul Momineen (A.S) said: The breath of a man is a step towards
death.
22.It is related that when Zerar bin Zamma Zubabi went to Muawiya and
23.Muawiya enquired from him about Amirul Momineen (A.S), he said,
" I stand witness that I have seen him on several occasions that night
had spread and he was standing in the niche (of the mosque) holding his
beard, groaning like a man bitten by snake and weeping as a grieved man,
saying: O' world, O' world. Get away from me. Why do you present yourself
to me? Or are you eager for me? You may not get that opportunity to impress
me. Deceive some other person. I have no concern with you. I have divorced
you thrice whereafter there is no restitution. Your life is short, your
importance is little and your liking is humble. Alas! The provision is
little, the way is long, the journey is far, extending and the goal is
hard to get to."
24.Amirul Momineen (A.S) said: about a man who praised him much, although
he did not admire him. I am below what you express and above what you feel
in your heart.
25.Amirul Momineen (A.S) said: The survivors of a battle are large
in number and have large progeny.
26.Amirul Momineen (A.S) said: Whoever gives up saying "I do not know"
meets destruction.
27.Amirul Momineen (A.S) said: I love the opinion of an old man more
than the determination of a young man; or according to another version,
more than the martyrdom of a young man.
28.Amirul Momineen (A.S) said: If a man behaves properly in matters
between himself and Allah, then Allah keeps proper the maters between him
and other people, and if a man keeps proper his affairs of the next life
then Allah keeps proper for him the affairs of this world. Whoever is a
preacher for himself is protected by Allah.
29.Amirul Momineen (A.S) heard about a Kharijite that he says mid-night
prayer and recites Qu'ran, then he said: Sleeping in the state of firm
belief is better than praying in the state of doubtfulness.
30.Amirul Momineen (A.S) said: When you hear a tradition test it according
to the criterion of intelligence not that of mere hearing, because relaters
of knowledge are numerous but those who guard it are few.
31.Whoever loves us, members of the Prophet's family, should be prepared
to face destitution.
32.It was said to Amirul Momineen (A.S) " How are you Amirul Momineen?"
and he replied: " How can he be whom life is driving towards death, whose
state of healthiness can change into sickness any moment and who is to
be caught (by death) from his place of safety?"
33.Amirul Momineen (A.S) said: There are many people who are given
time (by Allah) through goo treatment towards them, and many get into deception
because their sinful activities are veiled (by Allah) and many who get
enamoured by good talk about themselves. And Allah does not try
anyone as seriously as He tries him whom He allows time (to remain
sinful).
34.Amirul Momineen (A.S) said: Two categories of persons will face
ruin on account of me- he who loves me with exaggeration and he who hates
me with intensely.
35.Amirul Momineen (A.S) said: The example of the world is like a serpent.
It is soft in touch but its inside is full of venom. An ignorant person
who has fallen in deceit is attracted towards it but a
wise and intelligent man keeps on guard from it.
36.Amirul Momineen (A.S) said: What a difference there is between two
kinds of actions- an act whose pleasure passes away but it (ill) consequence
remains and the act whose hardship passes away but its reward stays.
37.Amirul Momineen (A.S) said: Blessed be he who humbles himself, whose
livelihood is pure, whose habits are virtuous, who spends his savings (in
the name of Allah), who prevents his tongue from speaking rot, who keeps
people safe from his evil, who is pleased with the (Prophets) Sunnah and
who is unconnected with innovation (in religion).
38.Amirul Momineen (A.S) said: Guard against cold in its beginning
(of the season) and welcome it towards its end because it affects bodies
in the same way as it affects the plants. In the beginning it destroys
them but in the end it gives them fresh leaves.
39.When Amirul Momineen, (A.S) returned from Siffin and noticed the
graves outside Kufa, he said: O' residents of houses, which give a sense
of loneliness, of depopulated areas and gloomy graves? O' people of the
dust, O' victims of strangeness, O' people of loneliness and O' people
of desolateness! You have gone ahead and preceded us while we are following
you and will meet you. The houses (you left) have been inhabited by others;
the wives (you left) have been married by others; the properties have been
distributed (among heirs). This is the news about those around us; what
is the news about things around you?
40.Amirul Momineen (A.S) said: Loving one another is half wisdom.
41.Amirul Momineen (A.S) said: Grief is half old age.
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