But, if your leaders are the worst of you, your wealthy...
📌But, if your leaders are the worst of you, your wealthy people are the stingiest of you, your affairs are decided by your women, then the interior of the earth is better to you than its surface.” “If you have what suffices you, then do not ask for what may make you haughty.” “When there shall be the Day of Resurrection, a servant’s legs shall not slip until he shall be asked about four things; his age how he has spent it, his youth how he has worn it out, his gains wherefrom he has gained and on what he has spent them, and about the love to us, we the Ahlul Bayt.” “If man dies, his deeds stop except three; a continuous charity, knowledge that is benefited by, and a good child that prays Allah for him.” “Remember Allah, because He is a supporter to you in what you seek.” “The lowest of people is he who insults people.” “There are four things that are from the signs of misery; inactivity of the eye (not cry), severity of the heart, far greed for the pleasures of this life, and the insisting on sins.” “There are four things that whoever has had he shall be in the greatest light of Allah; he that the protection of his affairs is the witness that ‘there is no god but Allah and that I am the messenger of Allah’, he that when an affliction afflicts him, says ‘we are Allah’s and to Him we shall return’, he that when obtains good, says: ‘praise be to Allah’, and he that when commits a sin, says: ‘I pray Allah to forgive me and I repent to Him’.” “There are four things that are required by every one of reason and intelligence from my nation; listening to knowledge, memorizing, spreading, and acting according to it.” “There are four things whose littleness is much; poverty, pain, enmity, and fire.” “Be merciful to a notable that becomes low, a wealthy one that becomes poor, and a knowledgeable one that is lost among ignorant people.” “Be abstinent in this life and Allah will love you, and be abstinent to what there is in people’s hands, and people will love you.” “Resort to secrecy in (many of) your affairs, because every owner of a blessing is envied.” “Allah’s wrath is so great on adulterers.” “From the most tortured people on the Day of Resurrection is one who shows people that he is good while there is no good in him.” “From the most tortured people on the Day of Resurrection is a knowledgeable one whose knowledge does not benefit him (in the life).” “The strongest of you is he who controls himself at anger, and the most forbearing one of you is he who pardons after having prevalence.” “The most wretched one of the wretched is he on whom the poverty of this life and the torment of the afterlife gather together.” “The most righteous one of people is the best of them to people.” “Seek good health for others, and you shall be granted it for yourself.” “Seek favor near the merciful ones of my nation that you shall live under their protection, and do not seek it near the hard-hearted ones.” “Regard a friend due to his friend.” “The most just one of people is he who accepts for people what he accepts for himself, and dislikes for them what he dislikes for himself.” “The bitterest of your enemies is your soul that is inside you.” “Give to a beggar even if he comes to you on a good horse, and give the employee his fee before his sweat shall dry.” “The most important one of people in this life is he who regards no importance of this life to him.” “The most reasonable one of people is the most of them in humoring people.” “Deeds are (regarded) but by intentions and results.” “Deeds are (regarded) by intention.” “The taking of a present by a…
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