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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

Virtues ENDEAVOURS

Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
The best endeavours are the loftiest of them.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
One whose endeavour is great, his cause is worthy.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
One whose endeavour is honourable, his value becomes great.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
One whose endeavour is insignificant, his merit is nullified.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
One’s zeal is [proportionate] to the extent of one’s endeavour.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
The farthest endeavours are those that are closest to nobleness.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Worries [and concerns] are [proportionate] to the extent of [one’s] endeavours.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
One whose endeavour is great, his care [and attention towards it] becomes great.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Nothing raises a person like his [earnest] endeavour and nothing lowers him like his lustful desire.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
The worries of a man are to the extent of his endeavour and his sense of honour is to the extent of his zeal.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Be lofty in your endeavours when you seek something and honourable in victory when you overpower [your enemy].
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Confine your endeavour to that which is necessary for you and do not enter into that which does not concern you.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
One whose concern is not for [attaining] that which is with Allah, the Glorified, does not realize his aspiration.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Do not allow yourself to feel sorrow for what you have lost such that it preoccupies you from what is [yet] to come.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
The value of a man is proportionate to his endeavour and [the value of] his action is to the extent of his intention.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Never concern yourself with anything except that which will earn you recompense and do not strive except in gaining reward.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
One who rises to the [higher] levels of endeavour [and determination] is glorified [and considered as great] by the nations.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Do not make your family and children your greatest concern, for indeed if they are friends of Allah, the Glorified, then Allah does not forsake His friend, and if they are the enemies of Allah then what is your concern for the enemies of Allah?
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim