Nahj al-Balagha

Nahj al-Balagha 2027

436. Amīr al-mu’minīn, peace be upon him, said: The most appropriate person for an honourable position is he who descend…

Nahj al-Balagha 2028

437. Amīr al-mu’minīn, peace be upon him, was asked: Which of the two is better; justice or generosity? Amīr al-mu’minīn…

Nahj al-Balagha 2029

Justice puts things in their places while generosity takes them out from their directions; justice is the general careta…

Nahj al-Balagha 2030

439. Amīr al-mu’minīn, peace be upon him, said: The whole of asceticism is confined between two expressions of the Qur’ā…

Nahj al-Balagha 2031

440. Amīr al-mu’minīn, peace be upon him, said: What a breaker is sleep for resolutions of the day!

Nahj al-Balagha 2032

442. Amīr al-mu’minīn, peace be upon him, said: No town has greater right on you than the other. The best town for you i…

Nahj al-Balagha 2033

443. When the news of the death of (Mālik) al-Ashtar (may Allāh have mercy on him), reached Amīr al-mu’minīn, peace be u…

Nahj al-Balagha 2034

Mālik, what a man Mālik was! By Allāh, if he had been a mountain he would have been a big one (find), and if he had been…

Nahj al-Balagha 2035

as-Sayyid ar-Raḍī says: “find” means a lonely mountain (rising in height above the range).

Nahj al-Balagha 2036

445. Amīr al-mu’minīn, peace be upon him, said: If a man possesses a revealing quality wait and see his other qualities.…

Nahj al-Balagha 2037

446. Amīr al-mu’minīn, peace be upon him, said to Ghālib ibn Ṣa‘ṣa‘ah, the father of al-Farazdaq (the famous Arabic poet…

Nahj al-Balagha 2038

The man replied: They have been swept away by (discharging of) obligations, O’ Amīr al-mu’minīn!

Nahj al-Balagha 2039

Whereupon Amīr al-mu’minīn, peace be upon him, said: That is the most praiseworthy way of (losing) them.

Nahj al-Balagha 2040

448. Amīr al-mu’minīn, peace be upon him, said: Whoever regards small distresses as big, Allāh involves him in big ones.