Source & Attribution
Hadiths
2,260 total
Nahj al-Balagha 101
Certainly the outside of the Qur’ān is wonderful and its inside is deep (in meaning). Its wonders will never disappear, …
Nahj al-Balagha 102
Amīr al-mu’minīn was delivering a lecture from the pulpit of (the mosque of) Kūfah when al-Ash‘ath ibn Qays [1] objected…
Nahj al-Balagha 103
How do you know what is for me and what is against me?! Curse of Allāh and others be on you. You are a weaver and son of…
Nahj al-Balagha 104
as-Sayyid ar-Raḍī says: This man was arrested once when an unbeliever and once in days of Islam. As for Amīr al-mu’minīn…
Nahj al-Balagha 105
Death and taking lessons from it
Nahj al-Balagha 106
If you could see what has been seen by those of you who have died, you would be puzzled and troubled. Then you would hav…
Nahj al-Balagha 107
Advice to keep light in this world
Nahj al-Balagha 108
Your aim (reward or punishment) is before you. Behind your back is the hour (of resurrection) which is driving you on. K…
Nahj al-Balagha 109
as-Sayyid ar-Raḍī says: If this utterance of ‘Ali (a.s.) is weighed with any other utterance except the word of Allah or…
Nahj al-Balagha 110
When Amīr al-mu’minīn received successive news that Mu‘āwiyah’s men were occupying cities, [1] and his own officers in Y…
Nahj al-Balagha 111
Nothing (is left to me) but Kūfah which I can hold and extend (which is in my hand to play with). (O Kūfah) if this is y…
Nahj al-Balagha 112
Then he illustrated with the verse of a poet : O ‘Amr! By your good father’s life. I have received only a small bit of f…
Nahj al-Balagha 113
Then he continued : I have been informed that Busr has overpowered Yemen. By Allāh, I have begun thinking about these pe…
Nahj al-Balagha 114
O my Allāh they are disgusted of me and I am disgusted of them. They are weary of me and I am weary of them. Change them…
Nahj al-Balagha 115
By Allāh I wish I had only a thousand horsemen of Banu Firās ibn Ghanm (as the poet says) : If you call them the horseme…
Nahj al-Balagha 116
(Thereafter Amīr al-mu’minīn alighted from the pulpit)
Nahj al-Balagha 117
as-Sayyid ar-Raḍī says: In this verse the word “armiyah” is plural of “ramiyy” which means cloud and “hamīm” here means …
Nahj al-Balagha 118
Arabia before proclamation of Prophethood
Nahj al-Balagha 119
Allāh sent Muḥammad (s.a.w.) as a warner (against vice) for all the worlds and a trustee of His revelation, while you pe…
Nahj al-Balagha 120
Part of the same sermon on the attentiveness of the people after the death of the Holy Prophet : I looked and found that…