Alī ibn Abī Ṭālib Quotes

Recitation of the Qur'an without contemplation and thought is futile.

He who is deserted by friends and relatives will often find help and sympathy from strangers.

Patience is of two kinds: patience over what pains you, and patience against what you covet.

Grant of patience (from Allah) is in proportion to the extent of calamity you are passing through. If you exhibit fretfulness, irritation, and despair in calamities, then your patience and your exertions are wasted.

To fulfill promises is the highest form of integrity.

Lack of friends means, stranger in one's own country.

The weakest man is the one who is able to correct his moral defects, but doesn't take action.

Humility is one of the nets spread by real greatness.

If you want to pray to Allah for better means of subsistence, then first give something in charity

An alert and learned man will take advice from any event.

The wealth of a miser is as useless as a pebble.

Pride mars greatness.

I wonder at a man who loses hope of salvation when the door of repentance is open for him.

There are people who worship Allah to gain His Favors, this is the worship of traders; while there are some who worship Him to keep themselves free from His Wrath, this is the worship of slaves; a few who obey Him out' of their sense of gratitude and obligations, this is the worship of free and noble men.

Failures are often the results of timidity and fears; disappointments are the results of bashfulness; hours of leisure pass away like summer-clouds, therefore, do not waste opportunity of doing good.