Nahjul BalaghaSayings
Nahjul Balagha Sayings 471 to 480
- There is no good in silence over matters involving wisdom just as there is no good in speaking with ignorance.
- Imam said in his prayer for seeking rain: O’ my Allah, send us rain by submissive clouds not by unruly ones.
- It was said to Imam (A.S.) : We wish you had changed your grey hair, O’ Imam. Then he said: Dye is a way of adornment while we are in a state of grief.
- The fighter in the way of Allah who gets martyred would not get a greater reward than he who remains chaste despite means. It is possible that a chaste person may become one of the angels.
- Contentment is a wealth that does not exhaust.
- When Imam (A.S.) put Ziyad ibn Abih in place of Abdullah ibn Abbas over Fars (in Persia) and its revenues, he had a long conversation with him in which he prohibited him from advance recovery of revenue. Therein he said: Act on justice and keep aloof from violence and injustice because violence will lead them to forsake their abodes while injustice will prompt them to take up arms.
- The worst sin is that which the committer takes lightly.
- Allah has not made it obligatory on the, ignorant to learn till He has made it obligatory on the learned to teach.
- The worst comrade is he for whom formality has to be observed.
- If a believer enrages his brother, it means that he leaves him.