Nahj al-Balagha

Nahj al-Balagha 1401

Fear Allāh and return to these people their properties. If you do not do so and Allāh grants me power over you I shall e…

Nahj al-Balagha 1402

By Allāh, even if Ḥasan and Ḥusayn had done what you did there would have been no leniency with me for them and they cou…

Nahj al-Balagha 1403

I swear by Allāh, the Lord of all beings, that I would not be pleased to regard their money which you have appropriated …

Nahj al-Balagha 1404

Mind yourself and consider for a while as though you had reached the end of life and had been buried under the earth. Th…

Nahj al-Balagha 1405

To ‘Umar ibn Abī Salamah al-Makhzūmī (foster son of the Holy Prophet from Umm al-mu’minīn, Umm Salamah) who was Amīr al-…

Nahj al-Balagha 1406

Now, I have posted an-Nu‘mān ibn ‘Ajlān az-Zuraqī at Bahrain and have released you from that position without anything b…

Nahj al-Balagha 1407

To Masqalah ibn Hubayrah ash-Shaybānī, the Governor of Ardashīr Khurrah (Iran).

Nahj al-Balagha 1408

I have come to know concerning you a matter which if you have done it you have displeased your Allāh and disobeyed your …

Nahj al-Balagha 1409

By Allāh Who germinated the seed and created living beings, if this is true you will be humbled in my view and you will …

Nahj al-Balagha 1410

Know that the right of those Muslims who are around you and those who are around me in this property is equal. For that …

Nahj al-Balagha 1411

To Ziyād ibn Abīh when Amīr al-mu’minīn had come to know that Mu‘āwiyah had written to Ziyād to deceive him and to attac…

Nahj al-Balagha 1412

I have learnt that Mu‘āwiyah has written to you to deceive your wit and blunt your sharpness. You should be on guard aga…

Nahj al-Balagha 1413

In the days of ‘Umar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb, Abū Sufyān [1] happened to utter a thoughtless point which was an evil suggestion o…

Nahj al-Balagha 1414

(as-Sayyid ar-Raḍī says:) When Ziyād read this letter he said, “By Allāh he has testified to it.” This point remained in…

Nahj al-Balagha 1415

as-Sayyid ar-Raḍī says: Amīr al-mu’minīn’s word “al-wāghil” means the man who joins the drinking group so as to drink wi…

Nahj al-Balagha 1416

To ‘Uthmān ibn Ḥunayf al-Anṣārī who was Amīr al-mu’minīn’s Governor of Baṣrah, when he came to know that the people of t…

Nahj al-Balagha 1417

O’ Ibn Ḥunayf, I have come to know that a young man of Baṣrah invited you to a feast and you leapt towards it. Foods of …

Nahj al-Balagha 1418

Remember that every follower has a leader whom he follows and from the effulgence of whose knowledge he takes light. Rea…

Nahj al-Balagha 1419

Of course, all that we had in our possession under this sky was Fadak [1], but a group of people felt greedy for it and …

Nahj al-Balagha 1420

I try to keep myself engaged in piety so that one the day of great fear it will be peaceful and steady in slippery place…