Nahj al-Balagha

Nahj al-Balagha 161

Woe to you. I am tired of rebuking you. Do you accept this worldly life in place of the next life? Or disgrace in place …

Nahj al-Balagha 162

By Allāh, how bad are you for igniting flames of war. You are intrigued against but do not intrigue (against the enemy).…

Nahj al-Balagha 163

By Allāh, he who makes it possible for his adversary to so overpower him as to remove the flesh (from his bones), crush …

Nahj al-Balagha 164

O people, I have a right over you and you have a right over me. As for your right over me, that is to counsel you, to pa…

Nahj al-Balagha 165

Amīr al-mu’minīn said after Arbitration. [1]

Nahj al-Balagha 166

All praise is due to Allāh even though time has brought (for us) crushing calamity and great occurrence. And I stand wit…

Nahj al-Balagha 167

So now, certainly the disobedience of sympathetic counsellor who has knowledge as well as experience brings about disapp…

Nahj al-Balagha 168

I gave you my orders at Mun‘araji’l-liwã but you did not see the good of my counsel till the noon of next day (when it w…

Nahj al-Balagha 169

Warning the people of Nahrāwãn [1] of their fate

Nahj al-Balagha 170

I am warning you that you will be killed on the bend of this canal and on the level of this low area while you will have…

Nahj al-Balagha 171

Amīr al-mu’minīn’s utterance which runs like a Sermon about his own steadfastness in religion and precedence in (accepta…

Nahj al-Balagha 172

I discharged duties when others lost courage (to do so), and I came forward when others hid themselves. I spoke when oth…

Nahj al-Balagha 173

The low is in my view worthy of honour till I secure (his) right for him while the strong is in my view weak till I take…

Nahj al-Balagha 174

About naming of doubt as such and disparagement of those in doubt

Nahj al-Balagha 175

Doubt is named doubt because it resembles truth. As for lovers of Allāh, their conviction serves them as light and the d…

Nahj al-Balagha 176

In disparagement of those who shrink from fighting

Nahj al-Balagha 177

I am faced with men who do not obey when I order and do not respond when I call them. May you have no father! (Woe to yo…

Nahj al-Balagha 178

as-Sayyid ar-Raḍī says: Amīr al-mu’minīn’s word “mutadhā‘ib” means “muḍṭarib” (i.e. moved or troubled), as they say “tad…

Nahj al-Balagha 179

When Amīr al-mu’minīn heard the cry of Khārijites that “Verdict is only that of Allāh” he said:

Nahj al-Balagha 180

The sentence is right but what (they think) it means, is wrong. It is true that verdict lies but with Allāh, but these p…