Nahj al-Balagha

Nahj al-Balagha 1261

I have come to know of your strictness with Banū Tamīm [1] and your harshness over them. Banū Tamīm are those that if on…

Nahj al-Balagha 1262

O’ Abu’l-‘Abbās, may Allāh have mercy on you, keep yourself restrained in whatever you say or do, good or bad about your…

Nahj al-Balagha 1263

To one of his officers.

Nahj al-Balagha 1264

Now, the cultivators [1] (dahāqīn, plural of dīhqān) of your city have complained of your strictness, hard heartedness, …

Nahj al-Balagha 1265

To Ziyād ibn Abī (son of his [unknown] father), when ‘Abdullāh ibn al-‘Abbās was the Governor of Baṣrah, the suburbs of …

Nahj al-Balagha 1266

I truthfully swear by Allāh that if I come to know that you have misappropriated the funds of the Muslims, small or big,…

Nahj al-Balagha 1267

Also to Ziyād

Nahj al-Balagha 1268

Give up lavishness and be moderate. Every day remember the coming day. Hold back from the funds what you need and send f…

Nahj al-Balagha 1269

Do you expect that Allāh may give you the reward of the humble while you yourself remain vain in His view? And do you co…

Nahj al-Balagha 1270

To ‘Abdullāh ibn al-‘Abbās. ‘Abdullāh ibn al-‘Abbās used to say, ‘‘Apart from the Prophet’s sayings I did not derive gre…

Nahj al-Balagha 1271

Let it be known to you that sometimes a man gets pleased at securing a thing which he was not going to miss at all and g…

Nahj al-Balagha 1272

Instructions made shortly before his death when he had been fatally wounded by a blow from the sword of (‘Abd ar-Raḥmān)…

Nahj al-Balagha 1273

I enjoin upon you as my dying wish not to regard anything by way of partner with Allāh, not to disregard the sunnah of M…

Nahj al-Balagha 1274

Yesterday I was your companion and today I am (just) a lesson for you, while tomorrow I shall be leaving you. If I survi…

Nahj al-Balagha 1275

By Allāh, this sudden death is not an event that I dislike, nor is it an accident that I hate. I am just like a night tr…

Nahj al-Balagha 1276

as-Sayyid ar-Raḍī says: A part of this utterance has already appeared in the sermons but it was found necessary to recor…

Nahj al-Balagha 1277

Amīr al-mu’minīn’s will as to how his property should be dealt with. He wrote it on return from Ṣiffīn.

Nahj al-Balagha 1278

This is what ‘Alī ibn Abī Ṭālib, the slave of Allāh has laid down about his property, in pursuance of seeking Allāh’s pl…

Nahj al-Balagha 1279

A part of the same : It will be administered by Ḥasan ibn ‘Alī. He will take from it a suitable portion for his liveliho…

Nahj al-Balagha 1280

In the charitable estate of the two sons of Fāṭimah they have the same rights as the all (other) sons of ‘Alī. I have la…