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Virtues CONSULTATION AND DELIBERATION

Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Consultation suffices as a supporter.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
One who seeks advice does not go astray.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Never consult with the ignorant in your affairs.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
One who acts against [good] advice gets perplexed.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
The one who seeks advice is on the side of success.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
The one who seeks advice is protected from failure.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
The bane of consultation is contradiction of opinions.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
The intelligent one never dispenses with consultation.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Consult before you decide and think before you proceed.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Seeking advice is the essence [and source] of guidance.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
The essence [and source] of guidance is in consultation.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Nothing derives an appropriate outcome like consultation.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
One whose adviser goes astray, his planning is nullified.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Consultation elicits for you the correct opinions of others.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Consultation is [a means of] seeking [assistance and] support.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
One who consults an intelligent person acquires [his objective].
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Participating in deliberation leads to the appropriate decision.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Do not consult with your enemy and hide your information [from him].
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
When you have decided [to do something], then consult [with others].
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Whoever cheats the one who consults him, his foresight is taken away.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Consultation is [a means of] ease for you and a difficulty for others.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Ignorance of the adviser is [a cause of] destruction of the consulter.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
One who consults with the people shares in their [combined] intellects.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Consult the intelligent ones and you will be safe from error and regret.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Consulting the ignorant person who is concerned for you one is dangerous.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
You must seek consultation, for indeed it is the result of judiciousness.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Consult in your affairs those who fear Allah and you will be rightly guided.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
One who becomes satisfied with his own intellect (or action) has gone astray.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Consult your intelligent enemy and be wary of the opinion of your ignorant friend.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
One who consults the people of intellect and wisdom attains success and rightness.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Whoever gives sincere advice to the one who consults him, his planning becomes good.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Suspect your intellects, for indeed it is from trusting in them that mistakes are made.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
There is no backing [and support that is stronger and] more reliable than consultation.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Being unjust to the one who seeks advice is [the worst form of] oppression and betrayal.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
One who consults the people of intellect is enlightened by the lights of the intellects.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
It behoves the intelligent one to continuously seek the right path and abandon obstinacy.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Compare some opinions with others, from this the right course of action will come to light.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Consulting the judicious person who is concerned for you is a [means of attaining] triumph.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Do not belittle a noteworthy opinion [even] when it is brought to you by an inferior person.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
One who consults the people of intellect and wisdom, gains success through prudence and aptness.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
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.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
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.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
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.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
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.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
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.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
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.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
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.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
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.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
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.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
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.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
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.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
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.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
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.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
How good a support consultation is!
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
What a good backing [and support] consultation is!
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim