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ENJOINING GOOD AND FORBIDDING EVIL FASTING STRUGGLE (JIHAD)
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
DYSLOGIA (THE INABILITY TO EXPRESS ONESELF EFFECTIVELY) ELOQUENCE IDLE TALK JOKING LOQUACIOUSNESS MUTENESS OPINIONS AND THE OPINIONATED52 TALEBEARING VAIN TALK
ADULTERY ANGER ANXIETY BACKBITING BEGGING AND ASKING PEOPLE BELITTLING OTHERS CONCEIT CORRUPTION COWARDICE DELUSION DEPRAVITIES DEPRIVATION AND FRUSTRATION DESERTION AND ABANDONMENT DIMWITTEDNESS AND THE DIMWIT DISDAIN DISPLEASURE DIVULGENCE [OF SECRETS] DOING WRONG TO OTHERS DOUBT AND MISGIVING ENMITY AND THE ENEMY EVIL AND THE WICKED EXTRAVAGANCE FABRICATING LIES FEARING OTHER THAN ALLAH FIVE BAD QUALITIES GREED AND THE GREEDY HARD-HEARTEDNESS HASTE AND THE HASTY HAUGHTINESS HOARDING AND HOARDERS IDLENESS IGNOMINY IMBECILITY INDOLENCE AND LASSITUDE INGRATITUDE INJUSTICE AND OPPRESSION JEALOUSY LETHARGY LOATHSOME ACTIONS AND TRAITS NARRATION AND TRANSMISSION OF INFORMATION NEGLECT OBSCENITY ONE WHO IS FED-UP PLOTS POLYTHEISM PRIDE AND BOASTING RAGE RANCOR AND PERFIDY REVENGE SCHADENFREUDE SCHEMING SHAMELESSNESS AND THE SHAMELESS AND IMPUDENCE SHOWING OFF SPILLING BLOOD SPITE AND MALICE AND SPITEFUI SUPPORTING FALSEHOOD SUSPICION THE ARROGANT ONE AND ARROGANCE THE DISBELIEVER AND DISBELIEF THE DISGRACE OF A MAN THE FALSIFIER THE FRUSTRATED THE HYPOCRITE AND HYPOCRISY THE IGNORANT AND THE FOOLISH AND IGNORANCE THE LIAR AND LYING THE MISER AND THE AVARICIOUS AND STINGINESS AND AVARICE THE SCHEMER AND PLOTTER THE STUBBORN AND STUBBORNNESS THE TYRANT THE UNJUST THE VILE AND VILENESS THEFT TO PUT [OTHERS] UNDER OBLIGATION TREACHERY and ANTIPATHY VICES AND THOSE WHO COMMIT THEM VIOLENCE WANTONNESS WICKEDNESS AND IMMORALITY
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

Virtues AFFLUENCE AND THE RICH

Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Opulence brings about transgression.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
The bane of affluence is stinginess.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Many an opulence leads to lasting poverty.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
The deception of wealth leads to insolence.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
The greatest of all riches is the intellect.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
The best affluence is the affluence of the soul.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
There is no affluence except through contentment.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
No affluence [can be acquired] with mismanagement.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Riches turn one who is not a master into a master.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
The richest of you are the most contented among you.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
A [truly] rich person is one who prefers contentment.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
A rich person is he who becomes rich through contentment.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
At times a rich person may be lowlier than an ugly sheep.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Sometimes a rich person may be needier than a poor person.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
The whole of affluence is in contentment and satisfaction.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Few are the rich who [financially] support and assist others.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
The most honourable wealth is abandoning [false] aspirations.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
The richest of the rich is one who is not a prisoner to greed.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
The best of riches is that through with one’s honour is secured.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
The greatest of riches is contentment and toleration of poverty.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
The rich person feels at home [even when he is] in a strange land.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
The brother of affluence is one who covers himself with contentment.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Wealth and poverty manifest the essences of men and their qualities.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Arrogance in wealth sows the seed (or warns) of abasement in poverty.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Affluence through [complete reliance on] Allah is the greatest affluence.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
One who does not become needless of this world through Allah has no religion.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Opulence through other than Allah is the greatest indigence and wretchedness.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
It is obligatory upon the rich person not to withhold his wealth from the poor.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
There is no offence greater than the offence of the rich who deprives the needy.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
How many of the rich are unneeded [because of their unwillingness to help others].
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Never count the one from whose wealth others don’t get sustenance as a rich person.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Loss of wealth is an advantage for the sagacious and a [cause of] regret for the foolish.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
The ignorance of a rich person abases him whereas the knowledge of a poor person elevates him.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Restraining oneself from that which is in the possession of [other] people is present affluence.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Two things are such that their value is recognized only by one who has lost them: wealth and power.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
The alms-tax of affluence [and comfort] is being good with neighbours and keeping ties with near relatives.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Seek refuge with Allah from the intoxication of riches, for indeed it has an intoxication that takes long to recover from.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Do not be delighted by wealth and comfort, and do not be grieved by poverty and tribulation, for verily gold is tested by fire and the believer is tested by tribulation.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
He who has been granted hopelessness in [obtaining] what people possess, contentment with what he is given and satisfaction with the divine decree has acquired affluence.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
One who would like to gain affluence without possessions, prestige without authority and abundance without kinsfolk, then let him them come out of the abjectness of disobedience to Allah into the honour of His obedience, for indeed [through this] he will find all of these.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim