Top 100 Abi Talib Quotes
#1. I never revolted in vain, as a rebel or as a tyrant, but I rose seeking reformation for the nation of my grandfather Mohammad. I intend to enjoin good and forbid evil, to act according to the traditions of my grandfather, and my father Ali Ibn Abi-Talib.
Husayn Ibn Ali
#2. Never make a decision in anger and never make a promise in happiness.
Ali Ibn Abi Talib
#3. The outcome of fear is disappointment and shyness is frustration.
Ali Ibn Abi Talib
#4. A girl is a good deed and a boy is a bounty. Good deeds are rewarded while people are held accountable for bounties.
Ali Ibn Abi Talib
#5. Wealth tends to create enemies, whereas knowledge tends to warm hearts.
Ali Ibn Abi Talib
#6. How foolish is man! He ruins the present while worrying about the future, but weeps in the future by recalling his past!
Ali Ibn Abi Talib
#7. Look for the man who's beaten. Feed him from my food, irrigate him from my water. Soul is for soul. He should be given only one equal hit regardless if I died. I would judge him regardless if I lived.
Ali Ibn Abi Talib
#9. When proven wrong, the wise man will correct himself and the ignorant will keep arguing.
Ali Ibn Abi Talib
#11. When my prayers are answered, I am happy because it was my wish. When my prayers are not answered, I am even more happy because that was gods wish.
Ali Ibn Abi Talib
#12. If someone's deeds lower his position, his pedigree cannot elevate it.
Ali Ibn Abi Talib
#13. Don't engage your heart in grief over the past or you wont be ready for what is coming.
Ali Ibn Abi Talib
#14. Not every man with a heart is understanding, nor every man with an ear a listener, and nor every man with eyes able to see.
Ali Ibn Abi Talib
#15. Do not hate what you do not know, for the greater part of knowledge consists of what you do not know.
Ali Ibn Abi Talib
#17. Body is purified by water. Ego by tears. Intellect is purified by knowledge. And soul is purified with love.
Ali Ibn Abi Talib
#18. The most precious wealth is wisdom, and the most miserable poverty is stupidity.
Ali Ibn Abi Talib
#21. Understanding the knowledge and wisdom of the Qur'an is by far, higher than memorizing.
Ali Ibn Abi Talib
#23. O Malik, people have either a brother of you in the religion, or brother of you in the creation
Ali Ibn Abi Talib
#25. If one night you see someone committing a sin, tomorrow do not look at him as a sinner. He may have repented during the night and you did not know.
Ali Ibn Abi Talib
#27. Associating with the wise and the knowledgeable people adds to the prestige of a person.
Ali Ibn Abi Talib
#28. Work for your afterlife as if you will die tomorrow, and work for this life as if you will live forever
Ali Ibn Abi Talib
#29. Envy of prosperity, confirmers of scourge, desperate of hope. They have a victim in every certain way, a mediator to every heart, and a tear in every complaint.
Ali Ibn Abi Talib
#30. Do not be misled by appearances for these are apt to be deceptive.
Ali Ibn Abi Talib
#31. 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
#32. 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
#33. 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
Ali Ibn Abi Talib
#34. There are so many highly esteemed ones who became miserable and humiliated just because of their bad temper and morals; and humble people who have attained eminence and the highest honors because of good temper and morals.
Ali Ibn Abi Talib
#35. Lead such a life, that, when you die, the people may mourn you, and while you are alive they long for your company.
Ali Ibn Abi Talib
#36. Do not be too hard, lest you be broken; do not be too soft, lest you be squeezed.
Ali Ibn Abi Talib
#37. People's hearts are like wild animals. They attach their selves to those that love and train them.
Ali Ibn Abi Talib
#38. 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.
Ali Ibn Abi Talib
#41. The world is darkness; knowledge is light; but knowledge without truth is a mere shadow.
Ali Ibn Abi Talib
#42. Beware of the flight of Blessings,
For nothing that runs away is returned.
Ali Ibn Abi Talib
#44. To whatever extent a person's knowledge increases, his attention will be turned more towards his soul.
Ali Ibn Abi Talib
#45. I was not created to be occupied by eating delicious foods like tied up cattle.
Ali Ibn Abi Talib
#46. A calamity does not descend except due to a sin and it is not lifted except with repentance.
Ali Ibn Abi Talib
#47. 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
Ali Ibn Abi Talib
#48. When wisdom reaches the acme of perfection, it will suppress the vicious instincts and injurious desires.
Ali Ibn Abi Talib
#50. Work for a Better Life as if you live forever,
And work for Better End as if you die tomorrow
Ali Ibn Abi Talib
#52. There is no greater wealth than wisdom, no greater poverty than ignorance; no greater heritage than culture and no greater support than consultation.
Ali Ibn Abi Talib
#53. Bear sorrows and calamities patiently, otherwise you will never be happy.
Ali Ibn Abi Talib
#54. The best which entailed from parents to children, is the good behavior.
Ali Ibn Abi Talib
#55. If all the women over the world have been permitted to be married to only one man, except one woman. He'd love to marry that woman. That is the imprint of man
Ali Ibn Abi Talib
#57. Everyone who is taken by death asks for more time, while everyone who still has time makes excuses for procrastination.
Ali Ibn Abi Talib
#59. Patience to faith is like the head to the body. The person who has no patience has not faith.
Ali Ibn Abi Talib
#60. There is no capital more useful than intellect and wisdom, and there is no indigence more injurious than ignorance and unawareness.
Ali Ibn Abi Talib
#61. Asceticism is not that you should not own anything, but that nothing should own you.
Ali Ibn Abi Talib
#63. A hopeless man sees difficulties in every chance, but a hopeful person sees chances in every difficulty.
Ali Ibn Abi Talib
#64. A man's behavior is the index of the man, and his discourse is the index of his understanding.
Ali Ibn Abi Talib
#65. Authority, power, and wealth do not change a man; they only reveal him
Ali Ibn Abi Talib
#66. True friends are a single soul divided between different bodies.
Ali Ibn Abi Talib
#67. 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
#68. Do not share the knowledge with which you have been blessed with everyone in general, as you do with some people in particular; and know that there are some men in whom Allah, may He he glorified, has placed hidden secrets, which they are forbidden to reveal.
Ali Ibn Abi Talib
#69. Perfecting one's intellect causes one to speak less, and those words spoken will be adorned with wisdom.
Ali Ibn Abi Talib
#71. 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
#73. Your souls are precious and can only be equal to the price of Paradise, therefore sell them only at that price
Ali Ibn Abi Talib
#74. Be like the flower that gives its fragrance to even the hand that crushes it.
Ali Ibn Abi Talib
#76. The disease of the heart is worse than the disease of the body.
Ali Ibn Abi Talib
#77. O Alaah, i haven't worshiped you because of lusting of heaven or fearing of hill. I've worshiped you because you deserve to be worshiped.
Ali Ibn Abi Talib
#78. Two kinds of greedy people never get satisfied; the seeker of knowledge and the seeker of this world
Ali Ibn Abi Talib
#81. Safety lies in silence. It is easier to rectify what you miss by silence, than to secure what you lose by speaking.
Ali Ibn Abi Talib
#82. During civil disturbance adopt such an attitude that people do not attach any importance to you - they neither burden you with complicated affairs, nor try to derive any advantage out of you.
Ali Ibn Abi Talib
#84. It is better to listen to a wise enemy than to seek counsel from a foolish friend.
Ali Ibn Abi Talib
#85. Do not feel lonely on the road of righteousness Because of the fewness of the walkers on it.
Ali Ibn Abi Talib
#86. Beautiful people are not always good, but good people are always beautiful.
Ali Ibn Abi Talib
#87. Two things cause people to be destroyed: fear of poverty and seeking superiority through pride.
Ali Ibn Abi Talib
#88. 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
#89. I wonder at a man who loses hope of salvation when the door of repentance is open for him.
Ali Ibn Abi Talib
#90. Recitation of the Qur'an without contemplation and thought is futile.
Ali Ibn Abi Talib
#91. Man comes from a drop of semen and leaves as a piece of dust. He doesn't know when he came and he doesn't know when he's leaving, yet he walks on the earth thinking he knows everything.
Ali Ibn Abi Talib
#92. The one from among the Muslims who recites the Qur'an but in the end finds his way to hell, is considerd to be among those that have taken the word of Allah in jest.
Ali Ibn Abi Talib
#93. Fear only the will of God and you will have no cause to fear anyone else.
Ali Ibn Abi Talib
#94. The most helpless person is the one who is helpless in reforming himself.
Ali Ibn Abi Talib
#95. The emaan of a person cannot be true until he has more trust in that which is in Allah's Hands than that which is in his own hands.
Ali Ibn Abi Talib
#96. He who busies himself with things other than improvement of his own self becomes perplexed in darkness and entangled in ruin. His evil spirits immerse him deep in vices and make his bad actions seem handsome.
Ali Ibn Abi Talib
#97. Like your body your mind also gets tired so refresh it by wise sayings.
Ali Ibn Abi Talib
#100. Often your utterances and expressions of your face leak out the secrets of your hidden thoughts.
Ali Ibn Abi Talib
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