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 JUSTICE AND THE JUST
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Justice is life.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Justice is equity.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Be just and you will rule.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Be just and you will rule.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Justice is the best trait.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Justice reforms the people.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Justice is the best judgment.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Justice is the best testimony.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Justice is the life of decrees.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
In justice there is benevolence.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
The best of policies is justice.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Be just and your power will last.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Justice is a merit for the ruler.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Justice is a merit of the sultan.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Justice is the soul of testimony.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Justice is the greatest of riches.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Many a just person is an oppressor.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Justice is the strongest foundation.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Justice is the system of leadership.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
The loftiest of endowments is justice.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Through justice, bounties are multiplied.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Justice is the better of the two policies.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Justice suffices as a means of governance.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Through justice, the populace is reformed.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
The bane of justice is the powerful tyrant.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
The status of one who is just becomes great.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
In justice there is betterment of the people.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
The bane of the just [ones] is lack of piety.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Do not let the weak lose hope in your justice.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
The ruling of one who is just gets acted upon.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Whoever acts justly, Allah fortifies his kingdom.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
One whose justice increases, his days are praised.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Nothing brings prosperity to the lands like justice.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
The best [form of] justice is assisting the oppressed.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Justice is [a means of attaining]) success and dignity.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
The coming to power of the just is from the necessities.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Justice is brings harmony while oppression causes deviation.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Justice is the mainstay of the populace (or of the creation).
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Allah unfolds His mercy upon one who acts justly in the lands.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
From the exigencies of justice is the forbidding of oppression.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
The pinnacle of justice is for a person to be just with himself.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
One who is just gains [and strengthens his] power [and authority].
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
There is no justice better than returning the right of the oppressed.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Justice is the cornerstone of faith and the accumulator of benevolence.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Justice is the mainstay of the populace and the splendour of the rulers.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Let your riding mount be justice, for one who rides on it gains mastery.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Take with justice but give with munificence; you will possess two virtues.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Justice is a foundation [for a healthy society]; oppression is destruction.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Justice can never be achieved until injustice falters [and comes to an end].
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
The most just among the creation is one who judges best according to the truth.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
The uprightness [and betterment] of the populace is [achieved through] justice.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Virtuous justice is [the cause of] organization [and harmony] among the people.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Verily being fair in [your] ruling and eschewing oppression are part of justice.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Two things are such that their reward cannot be weighed: forgiveness and justice.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
The most just of all people is he who is equitable to the one who has oppressed him.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Justice relieves the one who acts upon it from being shackled by the rights of others.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
You must be just with [both] friend and foe, and moderate in [both] poverty and wealth.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
It is not from justice to judge a reliable person by conjecture [instead of accepting his testimony].77
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
The just [ruler] is a custodian who awaits one of the two rewards (or the better of the two rewards).
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Have recourse to justice with good intention for the populace, reduced covetousness and increased piety.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Verily Allah, the Glorified, has enjoined justice and benevolence and has forbidden indecency and injustice.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Justice means that you act equitably when you are oppressed, and kindness means that when you gain authority, you forgive.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
The policy of justice comprises of three things: judiciousness in leniency, fairness in investigation and moderation in munificence.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
In justice there is comfort; and one for whom justice is beleaguering, then oppression will be more beleaguering [and difficult] for him.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
When your judgment is applied upon yourself [thereby showing your justice], the souls of [other] people summon each other towards your justice.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Allah, the Glorified, made justice a mainstay for mankind, a purification from oppressions and vices, and as an opening for [the spreading of] Islam.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
The most just of all people is he who is equitable despite having power, and the one who has the greatest clemency is he who is clement despite having authority.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
One whose deed done in private matches what he does openly and whose actions are consistent with his speech, then he is the one who has fulfilled the trust and whose justice has been established.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Indeed justice is the scale of Allah, the Glorified, which He has placed among the creation and installed for the establishment of truth; so do not oppose Him in His scale and do not contradict Him in His authority.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Following the way of Allah and the stability of nations lies in justice
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
How can one who is unjust to himself be just with others?!
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim