Nahj al-Balagha

Nahj al-Balagha 1301

Therefore, O’ creatures of Allāh, be afraid of death and its measures and keep ready all that is needed for it. It will …

Nahj al-Balagha 1302

You are being chased by death. If you stop, it will catch you, and if you run away from it, it will grip you. It is more…

Nahj al-Balagha 1303

If it is possible for you to have severe fear of Allāh and to rest hope in Him, then do both these things because every …

Nahj al-Balagha 1304

O’ Muḥammad ibn Abī Bakr, know that I have given you charge of Egypt which is my biggest force. So you are duty-bound to…

Nahj al-Balagha 1305

Say prayers at the appointed time. Do not say it earlier for the sake of (available) leisure nor delay it on account of …

Nahj al-Balagha 1306

A part of the same : The leader of guidance and the leader of destruction cannot be equal, nor the friend of the Prophet…

Nahj al-Balagha 1307

In reply to Mu‘āwiyah, and it is one of his most elegant writings

Nahj al-Balagha 1308

Now, your letter [1] has reached me wherein you recall that Allāh chose Muḥammad (S) for His religion and helped him thr…

Nahj al-Balagha 1309

You think that so-and-so are the most distinguished persons in Islam. You have said such a thing which if it be true, yo…

Nahj al-Balagha 1310

O man, why do you not see your own lameness and remain within bounds, and why do not you realize the shortness of your m…

Nahj al-Balagha 1311

Do you not realize it? I am not giving you any news: I am just recounting Allāh’s bounty, namely that a number of people…

Nahj al-Balagha 1312

Do you not know that a number of people lost their hands in the way of Allāh, and that everyone is distinguished (on tha…

Nahj al-Balagha 1313

If Allāh had not forbidden self-praise, the writer would have mentioned numerous distinctions which the believer knows f…

Nahj al-Balagha 1314

In spite of our old established honour and our well-known superiority over your people, we did not stay away from mixing…

Nahj al-Balagha 1315

Our Islam is well-known and our (greatness in the) pre-Islamic period too cannot be denied. Whatever remains has been me…

Nahj al-Balagha 1316

Thus, we are superior firstly because of kinship and secondly because of obedience. When at Saqīfah (of Banū Sā‘idah) th…

Nahj al-Balagha 1317

You think that I have been jealous of every caliph and have revolted against them. Even if this be so, it is not an offe…

Nahj al-Balagha 1318

You have said that I was dragged like a camel with a nose string to swear allegiance (to Abū Bakr at Saqīfah). By the Et…

Nahj al-Balagha 1319

Then you have recalled my position vis-à-vis ‘Uthmān, and in this matter an answer is due to you because of your kinship…

Nahj al-Balagha 1320

I am not going to offer my excuse for reproving him for (some of) his innovations, for if my good counsel and guidance t…