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Virtues JUDICIOUSNESS AND THE JODICIOUS

Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Judiciousness is a skill.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
One who acts judiciously is cautious.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Views are many but foresight is little.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
The fruit of judiciousness is wellbeing.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Judiciousness is being extremely cautious.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
One who opposes judiciousness is destroyed.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
From judiciousness comes strong determination.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
The end result of judiciousness is precaution.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Genuine determination comes from judiciousness.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
The bane of judiciousness is losing the matter.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
The weapon of a judicious person is precaution.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
From judiciousness comes preparedness and readiness.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
One who fails to act with judiciousness is reckless.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
The judicious person is one who does not harm others.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Judiciousness is [having] the most pertinent of views.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Judiciousness is a provision and negligence is a loss.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
In every action of the judicious person, there is merit.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
The judicious one is alert, the negligent one is sleepy.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Many a young person is more judicious than an old person.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
The judicious is one who eschews extravagance and loathes waste.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
One whose judiciousness is reduced, his determination is weakened.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
The judicious one does not become perplexed in times of adversity.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Judiciousness is [achieved] through weighing the opinions thoroughly.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Judiciousness is preserving the [lessons learned through] experience.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
The root of determination is judiciousness, and its fruit is victory.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Preserving [the lessons learnt from] experience is from judiciousness.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
The last sources of self-preservation are the first points of caution.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
The intellect of the judicious one acts as a deterrent from every demerit.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
The judicious person is one who is amicable with [the people of] his time.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Indeed the judicious person is one who does not get beguiled by deceptions.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
One who is not pushed forward by judiciousness is held back by impuissance.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
The judicious person is one who discards [excessive] expenses and luxuries.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
The judicious person never dispenses with a pertinent and superior opinion.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
When judiciousness is coupled with determination, felicity becomes complete.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
The most judicious of you is the most abstemious of you [from worldly pleasures].
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Act with judiciousness and cling to knowledge - your results will be praiseworthy.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Judiciousness means enduring agony until the opportunity [to react] avails itself.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
The judicious person is one who abandons this world for the sake of the Hereafter.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Judiciousness is considering the consequences [of actions] and consulting the wise.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Stopping [and assessing the situation] when faced with doubt is part of judiciousness.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
The most judicious of all people is one who deems his worldly affairs to be unimportant.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Tranquillity before [gaining] awareness [of the situation] is contrary to judiciousness.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Verily judiciousness is only in obedience to Allah and disobedience to the [lower] self.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
The judicious person is one who has been made worldly-wise by experience and refined by calamities.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
The most judicious of people is the one who presumes his inability despite having numerous supporters.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
The perfection of judiciousness is seeking to reform [one’s] opponents and being amicable with [one’s] enemies.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
The judicious person is one who is not too preoccupied with the deceptions of his world to work for his Hereafter.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
The most judicious of people is the one who fulfils his promise and does not postpone his work of today to tomorrow.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
From the excellence of judiciousness is being prepared to move and being ready to travel [from this world to the next].
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Indeed, the one who gets involved in matters without thinking about the consequences is vulnerable to grave calamities.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Judiciousness is safeguarding that which you have been charged with and leaving that which has been guaranteed for you.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
The judicious person is one who does not get too preoccupied with the blessing [he has been given] to work for his afterlife.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
The judicious person is one who is generous with what he has in his possession and does not postpone his work of today to tomorrow.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
He who does not give generously from what he has and does not advance (or save) his work of today for his morrow is not a judicious person.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
The most judicious of people is the one whose inner and outer garments are patience and consideration of the consequences [of his actions].
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Only he is judicious whose preoccupation is entirely with himself, whose concern is entirely for his religion, and whose struggle is entirely for his Hereafter.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
The judicious person is one who gives thanks for blessings that come to him and is patient and thinks no more of it when the blessings turn away or turn back from him.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Verily the judicious person is one who restrains his [lower] self by taking it to account, and controls it with rage (or by overcoming it), and kills it by fighting against it.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
The judicious person is one who delays meting out punishment when [he is] under the yoke of anger and expedites the repayment of favours by taking advantage of the available opportunity.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Verily the judicious person is one who occupies himself with struggling against his [lower] self, thereby rectifying it and preventing it from indulging in its vain desires and pleasures, thus he attains mastery over it; and verily for the intelligent one there is a preoccupation in keeping himself away from [that which is impermissible of] this world, its contents and its people.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim