Eternal Words Nahj al-Balaghah Sayings saying - 241 to 260
saying - 241 to 260
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241. Imam Ali ibn Aba Talib, peace be upon him said: The oppressed one’s day (of judgment) is to the oppressor much more hard than the day of the oppressor against the oppressed.
242. Imam Ali ibn Aba Talib, peace be upon him said: If many answers crowd together, the truth is hidden.
243. Imam Ali ibn Aba Talib, peace be upon him said: Fear Allah to some degree (even) though it may be little, and set a curtain between you and Allah (even) though it may be thin.
244. Imam Ali ibn Aba Talib, peace be upon him said: When replies are numerous, the correct point remains obscure.
245. Imam Ali ibn Aba Talib, peace be upon him said: Surely in every blessing there is a right of Allah. If one carries out that right, Allah increases the blessing, and if one falls short of doing so, one stands in danger of losing the blessing.
246. Imam Ali ibn Aba Talib, peace be upon him said: When capability increases, desire decreases.
247. Imam Ali ibn Aba Talib, peace be upon him said: Keep on guard against the slipping away of blessings because not everything that runs away comes back.
248. Imam Ali ibn Aba Talib, peace be upon him said: Generosity is more prompting to good than regard for kinship.
249. Imam Ali ibn Aba Talib, peace be upon him said: If a person has a good idea about you, make his idea come true.
250. Imam Ali ibn Aba Talib, peace be upon him said: The best deed is that which you have to force yourself to do.
251. Imam Ali ibn Aba Talib, peace be upon him said: I came to know Allah, the Glorified One, through breaking determinations, a change of intentions and the loss of courage.
252. Imam Ali ibn Aba Talib, peace be upon him said: The sourness of this world is the sweetness of the next while the sweetness of this world is the sourness of the next.
253. Imam Ali ibn Aba Talib, peace be upon him said: Allah has laid down iman (conviction) for purification from polytheism; salat (prayer) for purification from vanity; zakat as a means of livelihood; siyam (fasting) as a trial of the people; hajj for the honor of Islam; persuasion for good (al-amr bil-ma‘ruf) for the good of the common people; dissuasion from evil (an-nahy ‘anil-munkar) for controlling the mischievous; regard for kinship for increase of number; revenge for stopping bloodshed, the award of penalties for the realization of importance of the prohibitions; the abstinence from drinking wine for the protection of one’s wits; the avoidance of theft for inculcating chastity; the abstinence from adultery for safeguarding lineage; the abstinence from sodomy for increasing the progeny; tendering testimony for furnishing proof against contentions; abstinence from telling lies for increasing the esteem of the truth; the maintenance of peace (salam) for the protection from danger; Imamate (Divine Leadership) for the orderliness of the community and obedience (to Imams) as a mark of respect to the Imamate.
254. Imam Ali ibn Aba Talib, peace be upon him used to say: If you want an oppressor to take an oath, ask him to swear like this: that he is out of Allah’s might and power, because if he swears falsely in this way, he will be swiftly punished while if he swears by Allah Who is such that there is no god but He, he will not be quickly punished since he is acknowledging the Unity of Allah, the Sublime.
255. Imam Ali ibn Aba Talib, peace be upon him said: O son of Adam! Be your own representative in the matter of your property, and do about it whatever you want to be done with it after your death.
256. Imam Ali ibn Aba Talib, peace be upon him said: Anger is a kind of madness because the victim to it repents afterwards. If he does not repent his madness is confirmed.
257. Imam Ali ibn Aba Talib, peace be upon him said: Health of body comes from paucity of envy.
258. Imam Ali ibn Aba Talib, peace be upon him said the following to Kumayl ibn Ziyad an-Nakha‘i: O Kumayl! Direct your people to go out in the day to achieve noble traits and to go out in the night to meet the needs of those who might be sleeping, for I swear by the One Whose hearing extends to all voices, if someone pleases another’s heart, Allah will create a special thing out of this pleasing so that whenever any hardship befalls him, it will come running like flowing water and drive away the hardship as wild camels are driven away.
259. Imam Ali ibn Aba Talib, peace be upon him said: When you fall in destitution, trade with Allah through charity.
260. Imam Ali ibn Aba Talib, peace be upon him said: Faithfulness with faithless people is faithlessness with Allah, while faithlessness with faithless people is faithfulness with Allah.
