Thy lot or portion of life is seeking after thee; therefore be at rest from seeking after it. Ali ibn Abi Talib More Quotes by Ali ibn Abi Talib More Quotes From Ali ibn Abi Talib 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. Ali ibn Abi Talib islamic wisdom order Had there not been five bad qualities, all the people would have been righteous. Contentment with ignorance; love for worldly life; miserliness inspite of much wealth; ostentation in (good) deeds; and pride in their own intelligence. Ali ibn Abi Talib islamic ignorance wisdom No wealth like education and no poverty like ignorance Ali ibn Abi Talib wealth poverty ignorance The highest person is he who is of most use to humankind. Ali ibn Abi Talib islamic wisdom use 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. Ali ibn Abi Talib islamic grief wisdom Of all the follies the greatest is to love the world. Ali ibn Abi Talib islamic wisdom world Beware of the flight of Blessings, Ali ibn Abi Talib islamic wisdom running Whoever desires Paradise, proceeds towards goodness; whoever fears Hell, refrains from the impulses of passions; whoever believes firmly in death, detests wordly life; and whoever recognises the worldly life, the trials and tribulations (of life) become slight for him. Ali ibn Abi Talib islamic wisdom believe Happiness comes towards those which believe in him Ali ibn Abi Talib believe The best companion and helper is admirable morals. Ali ibn Abi Talib admirable companion moral Perfecting one's intellect causes one to speak less, and those words spoken will be adorned with wisdom. Ali ibn Abi Talib speak-less islamic causes A man is hid under his tongue. Ali ibn Abi Talib tongue men Greed is permanent slavery Ali ibn Abi Talib greed wisdom wise To maintain nice relation with the people is half of intelligence, nice questioning is half of knowledge, and nice domestic arrangements is half of the management of livelihood. Ali ibn Abi Talib islamic nice wisdom Often your utterances and expressions of your face leak out the secrets of your hidden thoughts. Ali ibn Abi Talib utterance expression secret No one has ever suffered from his people as I have. Ali ibn Abi Talib people Patience to faith is like the head to the body. The person who has no patience has not faith. Ali ibn Abi Talib no-patience body persons 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. Ali ibn Abi Talib hardship wisdom wise Be a good man to Allah and a bad man to yourself (desires); and be one of the commoners among the people Ali ibn Abi Talib islamic wisdom men 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. Ali ibn Abi Talib islamic wisdom religious
