Nahj al-Balagha

Nahj al-Balagha 1421

It is enough for you to have a disease that you lie with your belly full while around you people may be badly yearning f…

Nahj al-Balagha 1422

Shall I be content with being called ‘Amīr al-mu’minīn’ (The Commander of the Believers), although I do not share with t…

Nahj al-Balagha 1423

I see as if one of you would say that if this is what the son of Abī Ṭālib eats then weakness must have made him unfit t…

Nahj al-Balagha 1424

My relation with the Messenger of Allāh is that of one branch with another, or of the wrist with the forearm. By Allāh, …

Nahj al-Balagha 1425

A part of the same which is the end of the letter : Get away from me, O’ world. Your rein is on your own shoulders as I …

Nahj al-Balagha 1426

By Allāh, if you had been a visible personality and a body capable of feeling, I would have awarded you the penalties fi…

Nahj al-Balagha 1427

Get away from me, for, by Allāh, I do not bow before you so that you may humiliate me, nor do I let loose the reins for …

Nahj al-Balagha 1428

Should ‘Alī eat whatever he has and fall asleep like the cattle who fill their stomachs from the pasture land and lie do…

Nahj al-Balagha 1429

Blessed is he who discharges his obligations towards Allāh and endures his hardships, allows himself no sleep in the nig…

Nahj al-Balagha 1430

Therefore, O’ Ibn Ḥunayf, fear Allāh and be content with your own loaves so that you may escape Hell.

Nahj al-Balagha 1431

To One of his Officers

Nahj al-Balagha 1432

Now, you are surely one of those whose help I take in establishing religion and with whose help I break the haughtiness …

Nahj al-Balagha 1433

For Imām al-Ḥasan and Imām al-Ḥusayn (peace be upon them) when (‘Abd ar-Raḥmān) Ibn Muljam (the curse of Allāh be upon h…

Nahj al-Balagha 1434

I advise you (both) to fear Allāh and that you should not hanker after the (pleasures of this) world even though it may …

Nahj al-Balagha 1435

I advise you (both) and all my children and members of my family and everyone whom my writing reaches, to fear Allāh, to…

Nahj al-Balagha 1436

(Fear) Allāh (and) keep Allāh in view in the matter of orphans. So do not allow them to starve and they should not be ru…

Nahj al-Balagha 1437

(Fear) Allāh (and) keep Allāh in view in the matter of your neighbours, because they were the subject of the Prophet’s a…

Nahj al-Balagha 1438

(Fear) Allāh (and) keep Allāh in view in the matter of the Qur’ān. No one should excel you in acting upon it.

Nahj al-Balagha 1439

(Fear) Allāh (and) keep Allāh in view in the matter of prayer, because it is the pillar of your religion.

Nahj al-Balagha 1440

(Fear) Allāh (and) keep Allāh in view in the matter of your Lord’s House (Ka‘bah). Do not forsake it so long as you live…