Ali al-Ridha Quotes

Silence is a door among the doors of wisdom - indeed, silence begets and attracts love, it is the proof of all the beneficiences.

Assisting the weak is better for you than your act of charity.

The most valuable stage of wisdom is the stage of self-consciousness.

Some signs of understanding are: clemency, knowledge, and silence. Silence is one of the doors to wisdom. It brings about love and is evidence for all good.

Every curiosity is in need of the curiosity of speech.

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 best wealth is the one by which the honour of man is protected.

Wisdom and intellect is every man's friend, ignorance and illiteracy are his enemies.

For the Devil, the presence of learned one is by far more painful than a thousand worshipers.

The miserly one is never restful; the envious is never pleased; the grumbler is never loyal; the liar has no conscience.

He who reckons his own soul is successful; he who is heedless of it is unsuccessful.

One who offers (suggests) what he doesn't know, will be under the curse of the angels of the heavens and the earth.

The rank of the eldest brother is like that of father.

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.

Knowledge and science are the coffers and caches to the treasures of Perfection; and the only access to them is to ask and question.