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“لو كان لربك شريك , لأتتك رسله..”
― علي بن أبي طالب

“Do not raise your children the way [your] parents raised you, they were born for a different time.”
― Ali Bin Abi Thalib

“إِنْ لَمْ تَكُنْ حَلِيماً فَتَحَلَّمْ، فَإِنَّهُ قَلَّ مَنْ تَشَبَّهَ بَقَوْمٍ الْأَ أَوْشَكَ أَنْ يَكُونَ مِنْهُمْ.”
― علي بن أبي طالب

“إنّي أقولُ لِنفسي وهي ضيقةٌ وَقدْ أناخَ عليها الدهرُ بالعجَبٍ
صبراً على شـدةِ الأيام إنّ لها عُقبى وما الصبرُ إعندَ ذي الحسبْ”
― علي بن أبي طالب, ديوان أمير المؤمنين الإمام علي بن أبي طالب

“Work for a Better Life as if you live forever,
And work for Better End as if you die tomorrow”
― Imam Ali

“صمتك حتى تُستنطق أجمل من نطقك حتى تُسكت”
― علي بن أبي طالب

“Two kinds of greedy people never get satisfied; the seeker of knowledge and the seeker of this world”
― Imam Ali ibn Abu Talib, Nahjul Balagha

“سأصبر حتى يعجز الصبر عن صبري
سأصبر حتى ينظر الرحمن في أمري
سأصبر حتى يعلم الصبر
أني صبرت على شئٍ أمرّ من الصبر”
― علي بن أبي طالب

“How strange and foolish is man. He loses his health in gaining wealth. Then, to regain his health he wastes his wealth. He ruins his present while worrying about his future, but weeps in the future by recalling his past. He lives as though death shall never come to him, but dies in a way as if he were never born”
― Imam Ali as

“The moment you start arguing with an ignorant fool, you have already lost.”
― Imam Ali AS

“Every breath you take is a step towards death.”
― Ali Bin Abi Thalib

“أختر أن تگون مغلوبآ وأنت منصف ولآتختر أن تگون غآلبإ وأنت ظآلم”
― علي بن أبي طالب

“لو كان في يدك جوزة وقال الناس في يدك لؤلؤة ماكان ينفعك وأنت تعلم أنها جوزة وولو كان في يدك لؤلؤة وقال الناس إنها جوزة ما ضرك وأنت تعلم أنها لؤلؤة”
― علي بن أبي طالب رضي الله عنه

“Imam Ali(as) said, " The body experinces six different states: health, sickness, death, life, sleep, and wakefulness, and so does the spirit. Its life is its knowledge and its death is ignorance; its sickness is doubt whereas its health is certainty; its sleep is negligence and its wakefulness is consiousness.”
― Imam Ali ibn Abu Talib

“whoever prolongs his desire ruins his actions”
― Imam Ali

“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 Bin Abi Thalib

“The real Muslim is the one who prefers speaking the truth even when it is ruinous to him over lying even when it benefits him, and who finds inner peace in doing so.”
― Imam Ali ibn Abu Talib

“Do not hate what you do not know, for the greater part of knowledge consists of what you do not know.”
― Imam Ali

“If what you achieve today is equal to what you achieved yesterday, then you are at a loss. And if what you have achieved today is less than what you achieved yesterday, then you are deprived from the Almighty's blessings. Anyone who is not progressing, is in fact regressing, and if you are regressing, then you might as well be dead.”
― Ali-Ibne-Abu Talib

“I am the guide and the guided. I am the father of the orphans and the destitute, and the guaridan of the widows. I am the refuge of the weak person and the haven of every fearful one. I am the leader of the believers to paradise. I am the strong rope of Allah(swt); I am Allah's firmest handle and the word of Godwariness. I am the eye of Allah(swt), His truthful tongue and His hand.”
― Imam Ali ibn Abu Talib, Supplications

“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 Abu-Talib, Nahj Al-Balaghah (Peak of Eloquence) for Children

“ردّد في سرِّك إن الصمت مريحٌ لك وللآخرين ، وبخاصةً الآخرين .”
― الطاهر بن جلون, تلك العتمة الباهرة