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ADMINISTRATIVE POLICIES ADORNMENT ANONYMITY COMPLAINING OF DISTRESS DEBT DESIRE AND LONGING DIGNITY AND REPUTATION DISAGREEMENT DISCIPLINE DISSENSION EAGERNESS AND LONGING ERROR AND DEVIATION FAME AND RENOWN FLATTERY GOOD GOOD CHARACTER GOOD HEALTH AND THE HEALTHY GRIEF HOPES AND ASPIRATIONS INEPTNESS INSISTENCE INTIMACY JUBILATION LAPSES LAUGHTER LAZINESS AND THE LAZY LOFTINESS LOSS OF HOPE133 LUST MISERY MISTAKES MODESTY AND SHAME NOBLE TRAITS & DEEDS ONE WHO TURNS BACK AND THE ONE WHO MOVES FORWARD PEACE OF MIND PIETY PLEASURE AND DELIGHT POWER AND MIGHT REVEALING & REMOVING DISTRESS SECLUSION SEEKING ASSISTANCE SIGHT, OBSERVATION AND INSIGHT STATUS AND WORTH STRENGTHENING ONESELF STRUGGLING AGAINST THE SELF (JIHAD AN-NAFS) SUFFERING THE BELOVED THE CAUTIOUS THE DECEIVED THE DEVOTEE THE LOSER THE NEGLIGENT AND NEGLIGENCE THE OPPRESSED THE PAUPER AND POVERTY THE PERPLEXED THE SEEKER THE SOUL AND HOLDING IT TO ACCOUNT THE STRONG THE WRETCHED AND WRETCHEDNESS VAIN DESIRE WEAKNESS
ABANDONING FOR THE SAKE OF ALLAH BEING CUT OFF FROM ALLAH ESTABLISHING THE COMMAND OF ALLAH FLEEING TO ALLAH FORGETTING ALLAH GETTING CONNECTED TO ALLAH HOPE IN [THE MERCY OF] ALLAH AND [IN] OTHERS INTIMACY WITH ALLAH LENDING TO ALLAH PROXIMITY TO ALLAH PUTTING TRUST IN ALLAH RELYING ON ALLAH REMEMBRANCE [OF ALLAH] AND THE REMINDER REPENTANCE AND RETURNING [TO ALLAH] SEEKING PROTECTION FROM ALLAH SUBMISSION TO THE WILL OF ALLAH SUBMISSIVENESS AND HUMILITY IN FRONT OF ALLAH, THE MOST HIGH THE CLOSE FRIENDS AND LOVERS OF ALLAH THE FOE OF ALLAH THE ONE WHO IS FORSAKEN BY ALLAH34 THE RIGHTS OF ALLAH, THE MOST HIGH TRADE AND BUSINESS WITH ALLAH TURNING TOWARDS ALLAH
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ABSTINENCE [FROM FOOD] ADMISSION AND CONFESSION OF ONES SINS ADMONITION AFFECTION AND FRIENDSHIP AFFLUENCE AND THE RICH AID AMICABLENESS APOLOGIZING AND OFFERING EXCUSES ASTUTENESS ATTENTION BEING CHEERFUL AND SMILING BEING INDEPENDENT OF OTHERS BEING PLEASED AND SATISFIED BEING SYSTEMATIC IN WORK CALMNESS AND SOLEMNITY CHASTITY CHIVALRY COMING TO THE AID OF THE AGGRIEVED COMPETITION CONSULTATION AND DELIBERATION CONTENTMENT AND THE CONTENTED COURAGE AND THE COURAGEOUS DELIBERATENESS AND ACTING UNHURRIEDLY DILIGENCE AND STRIVING EARLY RISING EMINENCE AND THE EMINENT ENDEAVOURS ESTABLISHING TIES AND RELATIONS FAITH AND THE BELLEVER FEAR FORGIVENESS AND PARDON FREEDOM AND THE FREE GENEROSITY GENTLENESS AND SOFTNESS GIVING AND WITHHOLDING CHARITY GLORY AND THE HONOURED ONE GOOD DEEDS GOOD ETIQUETTE GOOD TURNS AND BENEVOLENT ACTIONS GRANDEUR GRANTING REFUGE TO THE FEARFUL GRATITUDE AND THE GRATEFUL GROOMING HAPPINESS AND JOY HAPPINESS AND PUTTING JOY IN THE HEARTS HIGH REGARD HONOUR AND THE HONOURABLE HUMILITY HUNGER IRRESPONSIBILITY JUDICIOUSNESS AND THE JODICIOUS JUSTICE AND THE JUST LENIENCY AND GENTLENESS LISTENING AND THE LISTENER LOWERING THE GAZE MERCY AND COMPASSION MODERATION NOBLENESS AND MUNIFICENCE OBEDIENCE AND COMPLIANCE OBEYING COMMANDMENTS ONE WHO ACTS WITH DELIBERATENESS PATIENCE AND THE PATIENT PEACE AND RECONCILIATION PERFECTION PHYSICAL BEAUTY PLANNING PRECAUTION READINESS AND PREPARATION REMAINING PURE AND FREE FROM SIN REMORSE AND REGRET AND THE REMORSEFUL RENUNCIATION OF WORLDLY PLEASURES56 RESTRAINT RIGHTEOUSNESS AND THOSE WHO PREVENT IT SEEKING FORGIVENESS SEEKING JUSTICE SEEKING WHAT IS BEST SELF-SACRIFICE SENSE OF HONOUR AND POSSESSIVENESS SILENCE SINCERE ADVICE SINCERITY AND DEVOTION STEADFASTNESS STRIVING AND SEEKING SUPPLICATION AND THE SUPPLICANT SUPPORTING THE TRUTH SUPPRESSING ANGER TAKING LESSONS AND EXAMPLES TAKING THE INITIATIVE THE BEAUTIFUL AND BEAUTY THE BROTHER, THE FRIEND, THE ASSOCIATE AND THE COMPANION THE CAREFUL THE COMPASSIONATE THE DILIGENT AND THE HARDWORKING THE EQUITABLE AND EQUITY THE EXPERIENCED THE FELICITOUS AND FELICITY THE FORBEARING AND FORBEARANCE THE GENEROUS AND GENEROSITY THE GOD-WARY AND GODFEARING PEOPLE THE GOOD DOER THE INTELLIGENT THE INTERCESSOR AND INTERCEDER THE MARTYR THE MIDDLE COURSE THE NOBLE -MINDED AND MUNIFICENT THE ONE WHO PRESENTS AN ARGUMENT THE SAGACIOUS THE SCHOLAR THE TRUSTWORTHY AND TRUSTWORTHINESS THE TRUTHFUL AND TRUTHFULNESS THE WARNER TOLERANCE TURNING BACKWARD UNDERSTANDING VEHEMENCE32 VIRTUES AND VICES

Vices INJUSTICE AND OPPRESSION

Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Injustice destroys homes.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Oppression takes away blessing.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Counter oppression with justice.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Injustice drives away blessings.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Oppression leads to destruction.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Power is expunged by aggression.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
There is no evil like injustice.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
In tyranny there is transgression.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Injustice is the most wicked vice.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Injustice has adverse consequences.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
By injustice, blessings are removed.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Oppression puts an end to blessings.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
There is no victory with oppression.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Tyranny brings negative consequences.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Tyranny is one of the two destroyers.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Tyranny is the antithesis of justice.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Injustice causes one to enter hellfire.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Oppression is an eraser [of good deeds].
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Oppression brings the quickest punishment.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Injustice is the ruination of the populace.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
The cornerstone of ignorance is oppression.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
The most loathsome of traits is aggression.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
By oppression, chastisement is brought down.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Injustice destroys the one who practices it.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Injustice is [the cause of divine] punishment.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Injustice is a crime that cannot be forgotten.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
One who embarks of injustice is met with ruin.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
The destruction of the populace is in tyranny.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Oppression is the quickest thing to be punished.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Injustice brings [divine wrath and] chastisement.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Never oppress one who has no helper except Allah.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Oppression drives [one] towards utter destruction.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Injustice has a series of destructive consequences.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Oppression brings [divine wrath and] chastisements.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
The quickest thing is the downfall of an oppressor.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Being unjust to the people corrupts one’s Hereafter.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Oppression is sufficient for the removal of blessing.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Being unjust to the weak is the most grievous injustice.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
The most evil characteristic of the souls is oppression.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
One whose injustice is excessive, his regret is abundant.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Injustice to the one who has surrendered is the greatest crime.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
One whose violations increase, his exasperation [also] increases.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Verily the evil that brings the quickest retribution is injustice.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Remedy injustice with justice and cure poverty with alms and charity.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Submission to tyranny causes destruction and annihilates the kingdom.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
The most loathsome injustice is your withholding the rights of Allah.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
The vilest oppression is [that which is practiced] when one has power.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Whoever rides the mount of injustice, his mount will stumble with him.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Continued injustice takes away blessings and brings forth chastisement.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Oppression causes the downfall of men and brings [their] deaths closer.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Indeed the ugliness in injustice is equivalent to the beauty in justice.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Injustice makes the foot slip, takes away blessings and destroys nations.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
One who is praised for injustice is being plotted against [and deceived].
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
The vilest transgression is transgression against the intimate [friends].
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Keep away from injustice for whoever acts unjustly, his days are abhorred.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
The most tyrannical person is he who oppresses the one who is fair to him.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Injustice is enough of a dispeller of blessing and an invoker of chastisement.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Injustice in this world is ruination and in the Hereafter, [it is] destruction.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
He who does not refrain from oppressing people does not believe in the Hereafter.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Do not stretch out your hand against one who is unable to stave it off from himself.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
One from whose oppression people are not safe is not safe from the punishment of Allah.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
The injustice of a man in this world is the symbol of his wretchedness in the Hereafter.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Whoever unsheathes the sword of oppression [on the people], his head becomes its sheath.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
One of the most grievous injustices is the injustice of [or against] the honourable ones.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
One who oppresses the people has manifested his obdurate opposition to Allah, the Glorified.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Do not make the nobles desirous of your cruelty [in their favour over those who oppose them].
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Keep away from tyranny, for indeed the tyrant will not [even] smell the fragrance of Paradise.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
A man may sleep after the loss of a child but he will not sleep under [the yoke of] oppression.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Distance yourselves from injustice, for indeed it is the greatest of wrongdoings and the biggest of sins.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
The actions that are most effective in bringing chastisement are oppression and ingratitude for blessings.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Keep away from injustice, for indeed it will depart from the one whom you oppress and will remain upon you.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Two things are such that one cannot be safe from their [evil] consequences: injustice and evil (or gluttony).
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Avoid the downfalls of transgression, the disgraces of deceit and the arousal of the latent, reprehensible evil.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Injustice to orphans and widows brings down divine wrath and takes away the blessings from those who possess them.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Beware of oppression, for verily it brings [divine] retribution, dispels blessings and causes changes in circumstances.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
In times of injustice, remember the justice of Allah with you and when you are powerful, [recall] the power of Allah over you.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Keep away from oppression, for verily Allah hastens chastisement for the oppressor and sends down exemplary punishments upon him.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
There is nothing that is more summoning of the removal of blessing and the hastening of chastisement than remaining steadfast upon injustice.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Keep away from oppression, for verily it hastens one’s downfall and causes tears [of regret and sorrow] to flow from the one who acts upon it.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Keep away from injustice, for it is the biggest sin; and verily the unjust will surely be chastised on the Day of Resurrection because of his injustice.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Know that injustice is of three kinds: the injustice that is not forgiven, the injustice that is not left [unquestioned], and the injustice that is forgiven without being questioned. As for the injustice that is not forgiven, it is the ascribing of partners to Allah as He, the Most High, says: ‘Verily Allah does not forgive that any partner should be ascribed to Him, but He forgives anything besides that to whomever He wishes’. As for the injustice that is forgiven, it is the injustice of a person to himself in committing some small sins. And as for the injustice that is not left unquestioned, it is the injustice of the people on one another. In this case the punishment is severe, not [simply] wounding with knives or striking with whips, rather it is a punishment in comparison to which all this seems small.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Consider not the injustice of the one who is unjust to you as grave, for indeed his striving only harms himself and benefits you; and it is not the reward of one who pleases you that you should offend him.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
When power prompts you to be unjust to people, then remember the power of Allah, the Glorified, to punish you; and [recall the fact] that what you have brought upon them will depart from them while it will remain with you.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
How bad an injustice is the injustice to one who is submissive!
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
How evil a provision for the Hereafter is oppressiveness to the servants [of Allah]!
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
How many a blessing has been removed by injustice!
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim