Muhammad al-Baqir Quotes

Fasting is a shield against (hell) fire. Charity and dole remove and finish sin, as does the remembrance of God in the midnight.

I admonish you regarding five things:

The person who teaches one chapter of guidance to the people will have a reward similar to all those who would act upon it, and nothing would be lessened or subtracted from the reward of those who practise it; and the one who teaches a chapter of misguidance, he will have the burden similar to each one who acts upon it, and nothing will be lessened from their burden of sin.

Being religious equals being extremely loving, and being extremely loving equals being religious.

Knowledge and science is the fruit of paradise; in times of threat it is one's ally, in exile it keeps one company, and in solitude it is one's intimate friend and companion.

Being sociable and affable with people brings kindness and friendship.

On the Day of Judgement, God will interrogate people according to the wisdom he has granted them.

There is no strength higher than overcoming carnal desire.

How beautiful it is when goodness succeeds badness; and how unappealing it is when evil succeeds goodness.

Indeed, faithful is the one who - when pleased and glad, his pleasure does not make him enter into sin and falsehood; and when unhappy and angry, his anger does not oust him from the world of righteousness; and when he gains power, his power does not make him commit excess, nor opression, nor make him go for a thing upon which he does not have any right.

The person who loves for the sake of God, and detests and despises for the sake of God, and gives for the sake of God, is among those whose faith has achieved completion.

Opposition of one's desires is the sign of the highest level of wisdom in a human being.

Whoever has three qualities or one of them will be in the shade of the throne of Allah: He should treat people with justice. He should do nothing unless he knows whether it pleases or angers Allah. He should seek no fault in his Muslim brother until he frees himself from that fault. For when he frees himself from a fault, he finds another fault in him. It is enough for the person that his own self diverts him from the people.

The believer does not spend an expense more lovable with Allah than saying the truth during consent and anger.

There is no pain worse than ignorance and lack of intelligence.