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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 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