Monday, May 3, 2010

Memorable Quotes and quotations from Hazrat Ali Ibn-e-Abi Talib

Hazrat Ali Ibn-e-Abi Talib


Hazrat Ali Ibn-e-Abi Talib - Nahj-ul-Balagha (Sermons and sayings Compilation)

- Be generous but not extravagant, be frugal but not miserly.

- If you overpower your enemy, then pardon him by way of thankfulness to Allah, for being able to subdue him.

- Man is a wonderful creature; he sees through the layers of fat (eyes), hears through a bone (ears) and speaks through a lump of flesh (tongue).

- Unfortunate is he who cannot gain a few sincere friends during his life and more unfortunate is the one who has gained them and then lost them (through his deeds).

- The best kind of wealth is to give up inordinate desires.

- A wise man first thinks and then speaks and a fool speaks first and then thinks.

- Be afraid of a gentleman when he is hungry, and of a mean person when his stomach is full.

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