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Governingpower is the proving ground for people.
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No town has greater right on you than the other. The best town for you is that which bears you.
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When the news of the death of (Malik) al-Ashtar (may Allah have mercy on him), reached Imam (A.S.) he said: Malik, what a man Malik was! By Allah, if he had been a mountain he would have been a big one (find), and if he had been a stone he would have been hard; no horseman could have reached it and no bird could have flown over it.
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A little that lasts is better than much that brings grief.
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If a man possesses a revealing quality wait and see his other qualities.
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Imam said to Ghalib ibn Sasaah, father of Farazdaq (famous Arabic poet) during a conversation between them: What about the large number of your camels? The man replied: They have been swept away by obligations, O’ Imam. Whereupon Imam said: That is the most praiseworthy way of (losing) them.
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Whoever trades without knowing the rules of religious law will be involved in usury.
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Whoever regards small distresses as big, Allah involves him in big ones.
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Whoever maintains his own respect in view, his desires appear light to him.
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Whenever a man cuts a joke he separates away a bit from his wit.
