Nahj al-Balagha

Nahj al-Balagha 901

Allāh’s favours

Nahj al-Balagha 902

I advise you, O people, to fear Allāh and to praise Him profusely for His favours to you and His reward for you and His …

Nahj al-Balagha 903

[Condition of persons facing death :] I also advise you to remember death and to lessen your heedlessness towards it. Wh…

Nahj al-Balagha 904

They have made lonely the place where they were living, and are now living where they used to feel lonely. They remained…

Nahj al-Balagha 905

[Transience of this world :] May Allāh have pity on you. You should therefore hasten towards (the preparation of) houses…

Nahj al-Balagha 906

Steadfast and transient belief and the obligation of migration (hijrah)

Nahj al-Balagha 907

One belief is that which is firm and steadfast in hearts, and one is that which remains temporarily in the heart and the…

Nahj al-Balagha 908

[The obligation of migration :] And immigration stands as its original position. Allāh has no need towards him who secre…

Nahj al-Balagha 909

[Arduousness of belief :] Certainly, our case is difficult and complicated. No one can bear it except a believer whose h…

Nahj al-Balagha 910

[The knowledge of the successor (wasi), his challenge “Ask me before you miss me” and prophecy about the Umayyads :] O p…

Nahj al-Balagha 911

Importance of fear of Allāh, desolateless of the grave, and about the death of the lover of Ahlu’l-bayt being like that …

Nahj al-Balagha 912

I praise Him out of gratefulness for His reward, and I seek His assistance in fulfilling His rights. He has a strong arm…

Nahj al-Balagha 913

I stand witness that Muḥammad - peace and blessing of Allāh be upon him and his progeny - is His slave and His Prophet. …

Nahj al-Balagha 914

[Counselling piety :] You should therefore exercise fear of Allāh because it has a rope whose twist. is strong and its p…

Nahj al-Balagha 915

Therefore, (fear) Allāh, (fear) Allāh, O creatures of Allāh, because the world is behaving with you in the usual way and…

Nahj al-Balagha 916

“And shall be conveyed those who feared (the wrath of) their Lord in companies unto the garden. . .” (Qur’ān, 39:73) The…

Nahj al-Balagha 917

Therefore, O creatures of Allāh, pay regard to all that by being regardful of which one will succeed and by ignoring whi…

Nahj al-Balagha 918

Stick to the earth, keep patient in trials, do not move your hands and swords after the liking of your tongues, and do n…

Nahj al-Balagha 919

Praise of Allāh

Nahj al-Balagha 920

Praise be to Allāh Whose praise is wide-spread, Whose army is over-powering and Whose dignity is grand. I praise Him for…