Ali ibn Abi Talib Quotes About Wisdom
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How many lessons there are and how little they are taken
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Everyone who is taken by death asks for more time, while everyone who still has time makes excuses for procrastination.
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Your souls are precious and can only be equal to the price of Paradise, therefore sell them only at that price
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Allah's Generosity is connected to gratitude, and gratitude is linked to increase in His generosity. The generosity of Allah will not stop increasing unless the gratitude of the servant ceases
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Patience is of two kinds: patience over what pains you, and patience against what you covet.
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Authority, power, and wealth do not change a man; they only reveal him
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A friend cannot be considered a friend until he is tested in three occasions: in timeof need, behind your back, and after your death.
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Do not be too hard, lest you be broken; do not be too soft, lest you be squeezed.
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Beware of the flight of Blessings, For nothing that runs away is returned.
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Put aside your pride, Set down your arrogance, And remember your grave.
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Your Remedy is within you, but you do not sense it. Your Sickness is from you, but you do not perceive it. You Presume you are a small entity, But within you is enfolded the entire universe. You are indeed the evident book, By whose alphabet the hidden becomes the manifest. Therefore, you have no need to look beyond yourself, What you seek is within you, if only you reflect.
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Glory is for none but the learned, Guided are they - and proofs for seekers of guidance. Every person is measured based on how much of it (knowledge) he mastered, The ignorant are to the learned their enemies, Succeed with knowledge and live energetically forever, Men are all dead, only the possessors of knowledge are truly alive
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Stubbornness destroys good advice.
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He who is greedy is disgraced; he who discloses his hardship will always be humiliated; he who has no control over his tongue will often have to face discomfort.
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The wiser a man is, the less talkative will he be.
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Many a spoken word is more piercing than an attack.
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One who is mild rather than forceful has greater capacity for outreach.
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Be a good man to Allah and a bad man to yourself (desires); and be one of the commoners among the people
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The world is darkness; knowledge is light; but knowledge without truth is a mere shadow.
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Knowledge is of two kinds: that which is absorbed and that which is heard. And that which is heard does not profit if it is not absorbed.
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I wonder at a man who loses hope of salvation when the door of repentance is open for him.
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Know you that Allah has made Islam the most sublime path for attainment of His supreme pleasure and the highest standards of his worship and obedience. He has favoured it with noble precepts, exalted principles, undoubtable arguments, unchallengeable supremacy and undeniable wisdom. It is up to you to maintain the eminence and dignity granted to it by the Lord, to follow it sincerely, to do justice to its articles of faith and belief, to obey implicitly its tenets and orders and to give it the proper place in your lives.
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Greed is permanent slavery
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Greed takes a person to the watering place but gets him back without letting him drink. It undertakes responsibility but does not fulfill it. Often the drinker gets choked before quenching his thirst. The greater the worth of a thing yearned for, the greater is the grief for its loss. Desires blind the eyes of understanding. The destined share would reach him who does not approach it.
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Of all the follies the greatest is to love the world.
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The highest person is he who is of most use to humankind.
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The relation of patience to iman is like the relation of the head to the body. If the head is chopped off, the body becomes useless. Then he raised his voice and said: Certainly, the one who has no patience has no iman, and patience is like a riding-beast that nevers gets tired
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A wise man first thinks and then speaks and a fool speaks first and then thinks.
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When proven wrong, the wise man will correct himself and the ignorant will keep arguing.
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Oh writer! An Angel watches over all you write. Make your writing meaningful for it will eventually return to you and you will be questioned about what you wrote.
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