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HOLY WORDS
SAYINGS
“First your neighbour, and there after your own house.”
“God has required to be obeyed for the sake of protection of the community. Our Guardianship is essential to protect against disunity.”
“God has made joining and connecting with the kinship and cognation, the cause of lengthening of life.”
[Taken from the book, “Rivers of Light”.]
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Prophet Muhammad (570-632)
Prophet of God who came to deliver the Divine Message to Humanity.
SAYINGS
Kindness is a mark of faith, and whoever has not kindness has not faith.
The ink of the scholar is holier than the blood of the martyr.
Allah will not be merciful to those who are not merciful to people.
By his good character, a believer will attain the degree of one who prays during the night and fasts during the day.
"God does not judge you according to your bodies and appearances, but He looks into your hearts and observes your deeds."
Righteousness is good morality, and wrongdoing is that which wavers in your soul and which you dislike people finding out about.
The best among you are those who are best to their wives.
The first cases to be adjudicated between people on the Day of Judgment will be those of bloodshed [killing and injuring]
The first to be summoned to Paradise on the Day of Resurrection will be those who praise God in prosperity and adversity.
What is the best type of Jihad [struggle]?" He answered: "Speaking truth before a tyrannical ruler.
None of you will have faith till he loves me more than his father, his children and all mankind.
Sayings in Shia Books
The best of those amongst you is the one who learns the Qur’an and then teaches it to others.
Everything in existence prays for the forgiveness of the person who teaches the Qur’an - even the fish in the sea.
The prayer of a person is (in reality) a light in his heart, so whoever desires, can illuminate his heart (by means of prayers).
A person seeing (visiting) my grave deserves my intercession. And a person who visits me after my death is like a person who visited me during my lifetime.
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Ali (600-661)
Ali was the Fourth Caliph, according to Sunnis.
He was the First Divine Imam, according to Shias.
SAYINGS:
“Fear only the will of God and you will have no cause to fear anyone else.”
“There is no capital more useful than intellect and wisdom, and there is no indigence more injurious than ignorance and unawareness.”
“There is no knowledge and science like pondering and thought; and there is no prosperity and advancement like knowledge and science.”
[Book, “Rivers of Light”, volume 1, page 179.]
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Hasan ibn Ali (d.669 AD)
SAYINGS:
“The heart that is empty of doubt is the cleanest of hearts.”
“I wonder at those who think about their body's food, but do not think about their soul's food. They keep away disturbing food from their belly, but fill up their hearts with destructive subjects.”
“Am I not the Proof of the Almighty, being His remembrance upon his creatures? ”
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Husayn ibn Ali (626-680 AD)
Famous Martyr of Karbala
SAYINGS:
Yazid is a transgressor, a drunkard, killer of innocent people and an open sinner, we will never give our allegiances to the likes of him.
Never will be salvaged the people who win the consent of the creature, at the cost of the dissatisfaction of the creator.
Wisdom will not be complete except by following the truth.
Among the signs of a learned man is criticising his own words and being informed of various viewpoints.
Rivers of Light, vol.78, p.119
People are slaves to the world, and as long as they live favourable and comfortable lives, they are loyal to moral principles. However, at hard times, the times of trials, true pious people are scarce.
One who reveals your faults to you like a mirror is your true friend, and one who flatters you and hides from you your faults is your enemy.
Death with honor is better than a life of degradation.
The most generous person is the one who offers help to those who do not expect him to help.
Tolerance is man’s ornament, keeping promises is a sign of nobility, and bonding with others is a grace.
When you are frustrated and do not know a way out, only flexibility and moderation towards difficulties will save you.
Anybody who would like to have a long life and make his sustenance increased, should pay visits to his own relatives.
Honor and dignity of man is only in virtue and piety.
If one does not have these five things there is no good in him: intellect, religion, etiquette, shame and good manners.
Whoever seeks the satisfaction of people through disobedience of God, then God chains him to the people.
Those who worship God for the hope of gaining, they’re not real worshippers, they’re merchants. Those who worship God out of fear (of punishment), they’re slaves. And those who worship God to be grateful towards their creator, they are the free people, and their worship is a real one.
[Source: “Rivers of Light”.]
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Ali Zainalabideen (658-713 AD)
SAYINGS:
If people realize the value of science and knowledge, they will sacrifice themselves for earning it.
I wonder at him who shows arrogance and vanity, while he was as a sperm yesterday and will be carrion tomorrow.
The dearest among you to God (the High), is the one whose deeds and behaviour are better than others.
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Muhammad Al Baqir (676-743 AD)
SAYINGS:
The parable of a man greedy of this world is the parable of the silk worm: the more it winds the thread round itself the farther it becomes from salvation, until it dies of grief.
There is no strength higher than overcoming carnal desire.
Learn knowledge and science from him who teaches it, even if he doesn't practice what he preaches.
There is no pain worse than not knowing and lack of intelligence.
Opposition of one's harmful desires is the sign of the highest level of wisdom in a human being.
On the Day of Judgement, God will interrogate people according to the wisdom he has granted them.
Consider the world as an abode where in you have dropped down for an hour, then you have got to leave it and go ahead.
He whose tongue utters the truth, his practise becomes purified; and the one whose intention is decent and good, his sustenance increases; and whoever adopts good attitude and decent behaviour with his family, his life span lengthens.
Three things destroy a man: considering his own deeds to be really great, forgetting the sins that have been committed, considering his own opinion to be the highest.
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Jafar Al Sadiq (702 – 765 AD)
SAYINGS:
One who does not use his intelligence will not succeed and one who does not use his knowledge will have no intellect.
A learned person among ignorant people, is like a live person among the dead.
To acquire knowledge is necessary at all times.
Write knowledge since you can’t memorize unless with writing. Heart confides to the written.
Everything has its tax, and the tax of knowledge is to teach the people.
Precision, accuracy and pondering in wisdom and sciences, will nourish and develop a person's brain.
The Foundation of Divine Law is Loving God’s Holy Family.
God has appionted to the grave of Husayn, four thousand anguished and grief-stricken angels, who weep over him (and shall continue to do so) up until the Day of Judgment.
Seventy thousand Angels worship near the grave of Husayn. God rewards prayers of the visitors to his grave.
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SAYINGS:
The likeness of this world is as the water of the sea - however much a thirsty person drinks from it, his thirst increases so much so that the water kills him.
Human beings have not been given anything higher than wisdom and intellect.
Association with a learned one in the slums, is by far better than sitting with an ignorant person on sumptuous and luxurious carpets.
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SAYINGS:
Time will come when one's safety lies in ten things: nine of which are in staying aloof from men, and the tenth in staying silent.
The best wealth is the one by which the honour of man is protected.
The miserly one is never restful; the envious is never pleased; the grumbler is never loyal; the liar has no conscience.
A trustworthy person does not betray you, yet you consider the betrayer to be trustworthy.
Rivers of Light, vol.78, p.335
Wisdom and intellect is every man's friend, ignorance and illiteracy are his enemies.
Silence is one of the gates to wisdom.
Assisting the weak is better for you than your act of charity.
Worship is not the abundance of prayer and fasting; rather it is the abundance of reflecting on the affairs of God, the Great and Almighty.
The one for whom the day of Ashura is a day of tragedy, grief and weeping, God The Mighty, The Glorious, shall make the Day of Judgment, a day of joy and happiness for him.
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SAYINGS:
The honour of a person lies in his independence from the people.
The one who commits aggression and injustice, and the one who helps him in it, and the one who is pleased over it - all are party to it and participants in it.
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SAYINGS:
Poverty is the self's greed and increased despair.
Compensate for the regret and negligence in previous mistakes by working hard in the future.
Wisdom doesn't affect corrupt hearts.
Both professor and student share in the pursuit of excellence and perfection.
Indeed, both the scholar and the student share the prosperity.
The ignorant man is prisoner of his tongue.
The value and rank of a learned man is more than his knowledge.
A parents' dissatisfaction causes poverty and leads to humiliation.
Beware of the time when you would be lying before your family members, and there would be no physician to stop it (death), and no friend to benefit you.
The person who obeys the Unique God, will not fear the anger of the creatures of God.
God has some Areas where He likes to be supplicated in, and the prayer of the supplicator is accepted there. The Shrine of Husayn is one of these.
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SAYINGS:
It is sufficient for your morality to not be involve yourself with the things you do not approve of in others.
Beauty of the face is the outward charm of a human being, and the beauty of soul is his inner charm.
Everyone reaps what he sows.
Whoever sows good shall harvest happiness, and whoever sows evil shall harvest regret.
God has imposed fasting so that the wealthy might suffer hunger and be kind to the poor.
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