Source & Attribution
Hadiths
2,260 total
Nahj al-Balagha 121
Part of the same sermon on the settlement between Mu'āwiyah and ‘Amr ibn al-‘Āṣ : He did not swear allegiance till he go…
Nahj al-Balagha 122
Exhorting people for jihād
Nahj al-Balagha 123
Now then, surely jihād is one of the doors of Paradise, which Allāh has opened for His chief friends. It is the dress of…
Nahj al-Balagha 124
Beware! I called you (insistingly) to fight these people night and day, secretly and openly and exhorted you to attack t…
Nahj al-Balagha 125
I have come to know that every one of them entered upon Muslim women and other women under protection of Islam and took …
Nahj al-Balagha 126
How strange! how strange! By Allāh my heart sinks to see the unity of these people on their wrong and your dispersion fr…
Nahj al-Balagha 127
O you semblances of men, not men, your intelligence is that of children and your wit is that of the occupants of the cur…
Nahj al-Balagha 128
About the transient nature of this world and importance of the next world This is a section of the Sermon (45) that begi…
Nahj al-Balagha 129
So now, surely this world has turned its back and announced its departure while the next world has appeared forward and …
Nahj al-Balagha 130
Today is the day of preparation while tomorrow is the day of race. The place to proceed to is Paradise while the place o…
Nahj al-Balagha 131
Beware, and act during a period of attraction just as you act during a period of dread. Beware, surely I have not seen a…
Nahj al-Balagha 132
as-Sayyid ar-Raḍī says: If there could be an utterance which would drag by neck towards renunciation in this world and f…
Nahj al-Balagha 133
His most wonderful words in this sermon are “Today is the day of preparation while tomorrow is the day of race. The plac…
Nahj al-Balagha 134
It is his saying that the place to proceed to is Paradise while the place of doom is Hell. Here he has used two differen…
Nahj al-Balagha 135
However, it should be taken in the sense of “al-maṣir” or “al-ma’āl”, that is, last resort. Qur’ānic verse is “say thou …
Nahj al-Balagha 136
About those who found pretexts at the time of jihād
Nahj al-Balagha 137
O people, your bodies are together but your desires are divergent. Your talk softens the hard stones and your action att…
Nahj al-Balagha 138
By Allāh ! Deceived is one whom you have deceived while, by Allāh ! he who is successful with you receives only useless …
Nahj al-Balagha 139
Disclosing real facts about assassination of ‘Uthmān ibn ‘Affān [1] Amīr al-mu’minīn said :
Nahj al-Balagha 140
If I had ordered his assassination I should have been his killer, but if I had refrained others from killing him I would…