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I wrote a compilation article on
Quotes From Imam Ali ranging on four categories (knowledge, death, friendship, and forgiveness). Here are my favorites from each category.
Quotes From Hazrat Ali - Wisdom and Knowledge
1. The biggest shame is to mock at something that you have in yourself
2. Two things define you: Your patience when you have nothing and your attitude when you have everything.
3. Through patience, great things are accomplished.
4. Knowledge is a venerable estate; good manners are new dresses; and thinking is clear mirror.
5. If someone is quick in saying about people what they dislike, they speak about him that about which they have no knowledge.
6. Fear the attack of a noble person when he is hungry, and that of an ignoble person when he is satiated.
7. The worth of a man is according to his courage, his truthfulness is according to his balance of temper, his valour is according to his self-respect and his chasteness is according to his sense of shame.
8. When you get (only) small favors do not push them away through lack of gratefulness.
9. Keep walking in your sickness as long as you can.
10. Do not let your difficulties fill you with anxiety, after all it is only in the darkest nights that stars shine more brightly.
Quotes From Hazrat Ali - Death
11. Gone Are those who pile wealth, even while they are alive. But those who are knowledgeable stay as long as there is night & day: although their bodies may be dead, but their knowledge is alive in the hearts.
12. He who trusts the world, the world betrays him.
13. Don’t show pleasure in somebody’s downfall, for you have no knowledge of what the future holds in store for you.
14. Aim to live in this world without allowing the world to live inside you because when a boat sits on water, it sails perfectly, but when water enters the boat, it sinks.
Quotes From Hazrat Ali - Forgiveness
15. The worst sin is that which the sinner takes lightly.
16. Try to be honest for Allah is the helper of honest people, Avoid telling lies since it will ruin your faith. Know that honest people are on the verge of nobility and honor, while liars area on the verge of collapse and destruction. The best revenge is to improve yourself.
17. Fear the sins that you commit in secret because the witness of those sins is the Judge Himself.
18. Forgive the shortcomings of people of virtue and honor because when they fall into error Allah raises them up.
Quotes From Hazrat Ali - Love & Friendship
19. It is easier to turn a mountain into dust than to create love in a heart that filled with hatred.
20. Woman is a delicate creature with strong emotions who has been created by the Almighty God to shoulder responsibility for educating society and moving toward perfection. God created woman as symbol of His own beauty and to give solace to her partner and her family
21. Meet people in such a manner that if you die they should weep for you and if you live they should long for you.
22. A lack of friends means strangeness.
23. It’s never the value of water but thirst, it’s never the value of life but death and it’s never about the friendship but trust.
24. A brother is like gold and a friend is like diamond. If gold cracks you can melt it and make it just like it was before. If a diamond cracks, it can never be like it was before.
25. A friend cannot be considered a friend until he is tested in three occasions: in time of need, behind your back, and after your death,
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Imam Ali Quotes
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