Hadith
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 CHIVALRY
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Magnanimity prevents every vileness.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Magnanimity is eschewing vile traits.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Magnanimity is fulfilling one’s promise.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Magnanimity impels [one] towards noble traits.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
With affluence, magnanimity becomes manifested.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
There is no magnanimity like keeping clear of sins.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Nobody has carried a burden heavier than magnanimity.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
The most honourable magnanimity is loyal brotherhood.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
There is no magnanimity like remaining free from sins.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Magnanimity is contentment and tolerance (or patience).
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Magnanimity is being free from vulgarity and disloyalty.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
There is no magnanimity in one who has no determination.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Magnanimity is being free from every [form of] wickedness.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Bearing the offences of one’s brothers is from magnanimity.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Magnanimity is not perfected except for the intelligent one.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
The best magnanimity is preserving goodwill [and affection].
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
The root of magnanimity is modesty and its fruit is chastity.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Magnanimity is bereft and devoid of every [form of] vulgarity.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
The magnanimity of a person is to the extent of his intellect.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Concealing [one’s] poverty and sickness is part of magnanimity.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Obedience to Allah and good estimation are part of magnanimity.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
One’s magnanimity is to the extent of the nobility of his soul.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Chivalry is a gift that is granted and a harm that is restrained.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Magnanimity is spreading goodness and being hospitable to guests.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Lowering the gaze and walking with modesty are part of magnanimity.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
The most excellent magnanimity is for a man to preserve his dignity.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
A person’s magnanimity is in his tolerance of his brothers’ mistakes.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Staying clear of vile traits is from the completeness of magnanimity.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
The basis of magnanimity is truthful speech and doing good to others.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
The most excellent magnanimity is modesty, and its fruit is chastity.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Keeping away from the forbidden is one of the conditions of magnanimity.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Keeping ties with near relatives is from the most excellent magnanimity.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Magnanimity is not completed except by bearing the hardships of good acts.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
The magnanimity of a person is [gauged by] the truthfulness of his speech.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
From the completeness of magnanimity is for one to feel ashamed of himself.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Magnanimity is a title that encompasses all the [other] merits and virtues.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
The most excellent magnanimity is tolerating the offenses of one’s brothers.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
The human being has not been adorned with anything more beautiful than chivalry.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Maintaining resoluteness [and judiciousness] is from the most excellent magnanimity.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
The beginning of magnanimity is cheerfulness and its end is persistence in righteousness.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
The most honourable magnanimity is controlling one’s anger and killing one’s lustful desires.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Magnanimity is evinced by increased modesty, generous giving and refraining from harming others.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
The beginning of magnanimity is obedience to Allah and its end is keeping away from vile traits.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Part of magnanimity is going beyond one’s [normal] capacity in working for [the pleasure of] Allah.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
It is part of magnanimity for you to be moderate and not extravagant, and to keep the promises you make.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
There is magnanimity in three things: lowering one’s gaze, lowering one’s voice and walking with modesty.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Magnanimity is a person’s eschewal of that which dishonours him and his earning that which embellishes him.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
The beginning of magnanimity is [having] a cheerful mien and its end is being affectionate towards the people.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
The completeness of magnanimity is for you not to do in private what you would feel ashamed of doing in front of others.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
It is from the completeness of magnanimity for you to forget your right upon others while recalling their right upon you.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Magnanimity is one of the most excellent religious teachings and there is no good in a religion which has no magnanimity in it.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
The order of chivalry is being tolerant of the mistakes of one’s brothers and fulfilling one’s obligation towards his neighbours.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
The magnanimity of a person is evinced by [his] spreading goodness, granting favours and abandoning [putting others under] obligation.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
The most excellent magnanimity is financially supporting your brothers with [your] wealth, and treating them as your equals in status.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
He who is not careful of his obligation towards his friends and does not treat his enemies justly cannot be attributed with magnanimity.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Two qualities have in them the consolidation of magnanimity: a person’s eschewing that which disgraces him and his acquiring that which embellishes him.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
It is from magnanimity for you to go out of your way when you are asked [for something] and to lighten [your requests] when you ask [someone for anything].
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Three things amount to magnanimity: generosity despite poverty [and hardship], tolerance of everything other than humiliation and refraining from asking others.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Three things are the consolidators of magnanimity: Giving without being asked, being faithful without having made a promise and being generous despite having less.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
The establishment of magnanimity is in struggling with your brother to make him obey Allah, the Glorified, and restraining him from disobeying Him, and increasing your censure [of him] for it.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Magnanimity is [displaying] equity when in authority, showing forgiveness despite having the power [to take revenge] and being financially supportive [to those in need] in one’s society (or in times of hardship).
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
If magnanimity was not difficult to acquire and heavy to bear, the wicked and ignorant ones would not have left from it anything even for a single night, but its acquisition is difficult and its burden is heavy, so the wicked and ignorant turned away from it and the honourable and virtuous ones adopted it.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim