Nahj al-Balagha

Nahj al-Balagha 1601

Adhere to the rope of the Qur’ān and seek instructions from it. Regard its lawful as lawful and its unlawful as unlawful…

Nahj al-Balagha 1602

Regard the name of Allāh as too great to mention Him, save in the matter of right. Remember more often death, and (what …

Nahj al-Balagha 1603

Do not expose your honour to be treated as the subject of people’s discussions. Do not relate to the people all that you…

Nahj al-Balagha 1604

Kill your anger and forgive when you have power (to punish). Show forbearance in the moment of rage, and pardon in spite…

Nahj al-Balagha 1605

Seek good out of every favour that Allāh has bestowed on you, and do not waste any favour of Allāh over you. The effect …

Nahj al-Balagha 1606

Know that the most distinguished among the believers is he who is the most forward of them in spending from himself, his…

Nahj al-Balagha 1607

Live in big cities because they are collective centres of the Muslims. Avoid places of neglectfulness and wickedness and…

Nahj al-Balagha 1608

Do not undertake a journey on Friday until you have attended the prayers, except when you are going in the way of Allāh,…

Nahj al-Balagha 1609

Obey Allāh in all your affairs because Allāh’s obedience has precedence over all other things. Deceive your heart into w…

Nahj al-Balagha 1610

Be on guard lest death comes down upon you while you have fled away from your Lord in search of worldly pleasure. Avoid …

Nahj al-Balagha 1611

To Sahl ibn Ḥunayf al-Anṣārī, his Governor of Medina about certain persons in Medina who had gone over to Mu‘āwiyah.

Nahj al-Balagha 1612

Now, I have come to know that certain persons from your side are stealthily going over to Mu‘āwiyah. Do not feel sorry f…

Nahj al-Balagha 1613

They are seekers of this world and are proceeding to it and are leaping towards it. They have known justice, seen it, he…

Nahj al-Balagha 1614

By Allāh, surely they have not gone away from oppression and joined justice. In this matter, we only desire Allāh to res…

Nahj al-Balagha 1615

To al-Mundhir ibn Jārūd al-‘Abdī who had misappropriated certain things given into his administrative charge.

Nahj al-Balagha 1616

Now, the good behaviour of your father deceived me about you and I thought that you would follow his way and tread in hi…

Nahj al-Balagha 1617

If what has reached me about you is correct, then the camel of your family and the strap of your shoe is better than you…

Nahj al-Balagha 1618

as-Sayyid ar-Raḍī says: al-Mundhir ibn Jārūd al-‘Abdī is he about whom Amīr al-mu’minīn (peace be upon him) said that: H…

Nahj al-Balagha 1619

To ‘Abdullāh ibn al-‘Abbās

Nahj al-Balagha 1620

Now, you cannot go farther than the limit of your life, nor can you be given a livelihood which is not for you. Remember…