- The best and most respected virtue of a man is to do good and to fulfill the desires of the needy.
- The honest man has not betrayed you, but you consider the betrayer as the honest one.
- You had better avoid the munificence that results in the greater loss to you than the benefits received by your brethren.
- He who is sure about the divine rewards will be more generous.
- He who adopts someone as a brother in order to provide Allah’s consent will be given a chamber in paradise.
- Giving alms is the most valuable savings.
- To be patient in the face of hard-ships is a virtue but to refrain from forbidden deeds is a greater one.
- Patience and resignation are considered as the worthiest devotions.
- True devotion not only means excessive sayings of prayers and keeping fasts. One ought to meditate on the divinity profoundly.
- Be modest before your friends and be prudent while encountering an enemy. Be pleasant with everyone.
- I wonder at one who purchases the slaves and releases them. Why doesn’t he try to make the free people indebted by his good conduct?
- It is much better to be uninterested in other’s properties than to be munificent.
- To help the disabled is much better than to give alms.
- Beast wealth is that which provides a good name for its owner.
- There is no better milk for the baby’s nourishment than its mother’s.
- He who exposes himself to an open accusation should not blame those who may suspect him.
- The oppressors will finally be punished.
- He who wishes to be the most needless, should put his full trust in Allah.
- He who shows patience in providing Allah’s consent will no doubt get more than what he has lost.
- He who desires to postpone the time of his decease and wishes to have his sustenance increased should observe ties of kinship.
- Allah will make happy on the Day of Judgment the person who has removed the grief from the heart of a believer.
- Be good companions of blessings because they are fleeting: once gone away, will not return.
- To use scent is a manner of the holy Prophet (SAW). Cleanliness is characteristic of prophets.
- One who breaks his promise will not be left safe and sound in the unpleasant events.
- Do not get angry when you are informed of the truth.
- True faith means the accomplishment of the religious obligations along with the avoidance of the forbidden acts.
- He who causes Allah’s wrath in order to provide a king’s consent is an apostate.
- Nothing is more worthy than good temper.
- You who can not satisfy people with your riches had better try to make them happy with a king-like face and good manners.
- Silence is one of the gates to wisdom.
- Man’s intellect is his friend and his ignorance, his enemy.
- Almightiness is reserved for Allah the One. He who claims the possession of this status will be perished by Allah.
- If a person holds a malthought towards another believer, then Allah will not accept his religious deeds.
- Keep aloof from avarice and envy. These two qualities have already destroyed the peoples gone by.
- He who does not offer his thanks to his benefactor has not actually praised Allah the Greatest and the Glorious.
- A generous man will eat other’s food so that they might partake of his food. A miser refuses to eat the food of others in order to deprive them of his own food.
- He who blames time should spend a long time blaming.
- The generous are the masters of the people in this world, while the pious are their chiefs on doomsday.
- Your mouth is one of the channels through which you make contact with Allah. You had better keep it clean by brushing your teeth.
- Pure piety is not but avoidance of mortal sins and abstinence from persecuting the faithful.
- He who assesses himself carefully will finally benefit: the negligent will lose out.
- He who acts with no insight looks like a pedestrian who travels on a wrong path. The faster he walks, the more deviated he becomes from the straight path.
- The forgiving warriors will enjoy divine victory in the battlefield.
- He who wishes to be the dearest to the people must be virtuous both in public and in secret.
- Human intellect is a divine blessing but politeness is acquired through endeavoring.
- Prudence keeps repentance away.
- Reflection is the mirror into which you can look and see your virtues and your evils.
- Magnanimity is unstable. Trust in Allah will give it stability.
- Gifts cast out hatred from the heart.
- Humbleness means treating others the same way as you expect them to treat you.
- He who tries to keep himself immaculate for forty days, Allah will let the waves of wisdom flow from his heart to his tongue.
- Giving alms repels the certain catastrophe.
- He who wishes to be the strongest of all should rely on Allah.
- The believer who is endowed with a good temper will have the strongest faith.
- Perfection in intellect is primarily to have faith in Allah and secondly to behave well towards others.
- Penalty for ingratitude occurs instantly.
- Remission is good when not accompanied by blame.
- Treasures of beneficence include concealment of your good deeds, tolerance in hardships and reticence in disasters.
- A faithful Muslim never exceeds his legitimate right when he is in power.
- The believer’s fury will not deviate him from the right path.
- He who begins his day without being concerned about improving the Muslim’s affairs should not be called a Muslim.
- The true Muslim never teases others with his hand or tongue.
- He who recognizes his merit will not easily perish.
- He who chooses his path properly will not slip down. He will never confront a deadlock in case he falls.
- A generous man is close to Allah, close to paradise, and close to everyone.
- Keeping other’s secrets, patience in hardships and tolerance towards others are all signs of faith.
- Tolerance, knowledge and silence are the signs found in a jurisprudent.
- To bear enmity towards the people is the worst provision for the journey to the hereafter.
- He, who betrays his brethren, causes them losses and deceives them, is not one of us.
- One who torments his neighbor is not one of us.
- Never become angry with others and do not ask anything from them. Wish for the people whatever you wish for yourself.
- Wine and other intoxicating beverages are strictly prohibited by the religious legislation. One sip of such drinks is as illegitimate as a whole barrel is.
- To be friendly with others denotes one half of wisdom.
- A wealthy person ought to be generous to his family.
- A Muslim should not frighten his brethren.
- He who reveals his poverty before others will disgrace himself.
- To be in the company of villains will result in suspecting the good.
- Resignation, beneficence and certitude are the most precious blessings descended by Heaven.
- Worship does not lie in copious prayer and fasting, but in the amount of contemplation in the works of Allah.
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