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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Participating in deliberation leads to the appropriate decision.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Consult your enemies; you will know from their opinion how much enmity they have [for you] and what their objectives are.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Consult your intelligent enemy and be wary of the opinion of your ignorant friend.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Compare some opinions with others, from this the right course of action will come to light.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Suspect your intellects, for indeed it is from trusting in them that mistakes are made.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Consultation is [a means of] ease for you and a difficulty for others.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

The best person whom you can consult is the one with [abundant] experience and the worst person whom you can associate with is the one with [numerous] faults.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Consultation is [a means of] seeking [assistance and] support.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Seeking advice is the essence [and source] of guidance.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

The one who seeks advice is protected from failure.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

The one who seeks advice is on the side of success.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Consultation elicits for you the correct opinions of others.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Indeed consultation has only been urged because the opinion of the adviser is unbiased while the opinion of the consulter is mixed with bias.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

The bane of consultation is contradiction of opinions.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

When you have decided [to do something], then consult [with others].

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

When you proceed with an affair then proceed after deliberation and seeking advice; do not delay your action of today to tomorrow, and perform each day's action on that same day.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Ignorance of the adviser is [a cause of] destruction of the consulter.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

It behoves the intelligent one to add the opinion of the intelligent people to his opinion and to merge the knowledge of the wise with his knowledge.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

It behoves the intelligent one to continuously seek the right path and abandon obstinacy.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

The best among those whom you consult are the people of wisdom and knowledge, and those who possess experience and judiciousness.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Betrayal of the one who submits [to you] and the one who consults [you] is from the most atrocious acts and the gravest wickedness, and leads to punishment in hellfire.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Consult before you decide and think before you proceed.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Consult the intelligent ones and you will be safe from error and regret.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Consult in your affairs those who fear Allah and you will be rightly guided.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Being unjust to the one who seeks advice is [the worst form of] oppression and betrayal.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

You must seek consultation, for indeed it is the result of judiciousness.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

It is the duty of the one who is consulted to strive in giving an [appropriate] opinion but it is not for him to guarantee success.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

The essence [and source] of guidance is in consultation.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Consultation suffices as a supporter.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

One who acts against [good] advice gets perplexed.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

One who consults an intelligent person acquires [his objective].

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

One whose adviser goes astray, his planning is nullified.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Whoever gives sincere advice to the one who consults him, his planning becomes good.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Whoever cheats the one who consults him, his foresight is taken away.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

One who consults the people of intellect is enlightened by the lights of the intellects.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

One who consults the people of intellect and wisdom attains success and rightness.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

One who consults with the people shares in their [combined] intellects.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

One who consults the people of intellect and wisdom, gains success through prudence and aptness.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

One who persists in consultation does not lack a praiser when the right result is achieved or an apologizer when a mistake is made.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

One who seeks advice does not go astray.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Nothing derives an appropriate outcome like consultation.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Consulting the judicious person who is concerned for you is a [means of attaining] triumph.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Consulting the ignorant person who is concerned for you one is dangerous.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

How good a support consultation is!

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

What a good backing [and support] consultation is!

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Do not consult with your enemy and hide your information [from him].

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Never consult with the ignorant in your affairs.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Do not belittle a noteworthy opinion [even] when it is brought to you by an inferior person.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Do not include a miser in your consultation as he will turn you away from the goal and frighten you with poverty.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Never include a coward in your consultation as he will weaken your resolve in the matter and [will] make a mountain out of a mole hill.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Do not consult the liar, for indeed he is like the mirage that makes the distant seem near and the near seem distant.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Never include a greedy person in your consultation as he will facilitate evil [deeds] and glamorize avarice for you.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

The intelligent one never dispenses with consultation.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

There is no backing [and support that is stronger and] more reliable than consultation.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

One who becomes satisfied with his own intellect (or action) has gone astray.

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Hadith

Ethics Virtues CONSULTATION AND DELIBERATION