Nahj al-Balagha

Nahj al-Balagha 1101

I looked around but found no one to shield me, protect me or help me except the members of my family. I refrained from f…

Nahj al-Balagha 1102

As-Sayyid ar-Raḍī says: This utterance of Amīr al-mu’minīn has already appeared in an earlier Sermon (172), but I have r…

Nahj al-Balagha 1103

About those who went to Baṣrah to fight Amīr al-mu’minīn

Nahj al-Balagha 1104

They marched on my officers and the custodians of the public treasury which is still under my control and on the people …

Nahj al-Balagha 1105

When Amīr al-mu’minīn passed by the corpses of Ṭalḥah ibn ‘Ubaydullāh and ‘Abd ar-Raḥmān ibn ‘Attāb ibn Asīd who were bo…

Nahj al-Balagha 1106

Abū Muḥammad (Ṭalḥah) lies here away from his own place. By Allāh, I did not like that the Quraysh should lie killed und…

Nahj al-Balagha 1107

Qualities of the God-fearing and the pious

Nahj al-Balagha 1108

He (the believer) kept his mind alive and killed (the desires of) his heart till his body became thin, his bulk turned l…

Nahj al-Balagha 1109

Amīr al-mu’minīn recited the verse “Engage (your) vying in exuberance, until ye come to the graves.” [1] (Qur’ān, 102:1-…

Nahj al-Balagha 1110

How distant (from achievement) is their aim, how neglectful are these visitors and how difficult is the affair. They hav…

Nahj al-Balagha 1111

They looked at them with weak-sighted eyes and descended into the hollow of ignorance. If they had asked about them from…

Nahj al-Balagha 1112

They are your fore-runners in reaching the goal and have arrived at the watering places before you. They had positions o…

Nahj al-Balagha 1113

Their accounts are unknown and their houses are silent, not because of length of time or distance of place, but because …

Nahj al-Balagha 1114

The night or the day when they departed has become ever existent for them. [2] They found the dangers of their placed of…

Nahj al-Balagha 1115

Even though their traces have been wiped out and their news has stopped (circulating), eyes are capable of drawing a les…

Nahj al-Balagha 1116

Now, if you portray them in your mind, or if the curtains concealing them are removed from them for you, in this state w…

Nahj al-Balagha 1117

Every trouble of theirs is such that its position does not change and the distress does not clear away. How many a prest…

Nahj al-Balagha 1118

He then turned to that with which the physician had made him familiar, namely suppressing the hot (diseases) with cold (…

Nahj al-Balagha 1119

In this state when he was getting ready to depart from the world and leave his beloved ones, such a serious choking over…

Nahj al-Balagha 1120

Delivered after reciting the verse: therein declare glory unto Him in the mornings and the evenings; Men whom neither me…