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Virtues THE FELICITOUS AND FELICITY

Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Felicity is that which leads [one] to success.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Successfully attaining what is sought is part of felicity.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
He who makes his brothers miserable does not gain felicity.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
The felicity of a person is [in] contentment and satisfaction.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
The signs of felicity are sincerity [of intentions] in action.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Felicitous is one who makes his obedience [and worship] sincere.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Felicity is gained by hastening good deeds and pure [and virtuous] actions.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
It is part of felicity to be granted success in performing righteous deeds.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
The felicitous is one who considers that which is lost [to him] as insignificant.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
The felicity of a man is in safeguarding his faith and working for his Hereafter.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Having a heart that is free of rancour and jealousy is from the felicity of a servant.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
From the felicity of a person is his showing benevolence to those who are deserving of it.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
You will never know the sweetness of felicity until you taste the bitterness of misfortune.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
It is from the perfection of felicity for one to strive for the betterment of the [whole] community.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
If you would like to be the most felicitous of people through what you have learnt, then act upon it.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
It is enough of a felicity for a person that he be deemed trustworthy in religious and worldly affairs.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Verily the most felicitous of people is one who has an exhorter in himself [that urges him] to obey Allah.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
No one attains felicity except by upholding the bounds of Allah and no one becomes wretched except by disregarding them.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Felicitous is one who fears the punishment [of Allah] so he has faith, and hopes for divine reward so he does good deeds.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
When the presentation [of deeds] in front of Allah, the Glorified, takes place, felicity is differentiated from wretchedness.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
It is enough of a felicity for a person to turn away from that which perishes and become occupied with that which is everlasting.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
It is from the felicity of a person that his good turns are done to one who thanks him and his benevolence is shown to one who is not ungrateful to him.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
A person does not attain felicity except through the obedience of Allah, the Glorified, and a person does not become wretched except by disobeying Allah.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Indeed only he is felicitous who fears divine punishment so he safeguards himself, and hopes for divine reward so he does good, and longs for Paradise so he wakes up [to worship] in the night.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
How close are felicities to misfortunes!
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
How far is repose in ease and inactivity from acquiring felicity!
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim