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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
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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 THE INTELLIGENT

Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Be rational and you will discern.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
One who has intelligence is content.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
One who has intelligence, comprehends.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
The intelligent one is grieved, sorrowful.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
There is no poverty for the intelligent one.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
A person is the friend of what he understands.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Every intelligent person is sorrowful (or sad).
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Follow the intelligent one and you will benefit.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
One who has intelligence is kind [and tolerant].
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
The lapse of an intelligent person is dangerous.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
The intelligent one is the enemy of his delectation.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
One who lengthens his aspirations is not intelligent.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
The intelligent person is one who fetters his tongue.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
The intelligent person is one who fetters his tongue.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
The most felicitous of people is the intelligent one.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
One whose intellect is less, his jesting is increased.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
The lapse of an intelligent person is a crushing blow.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
The intelligent person is never found [to be] beguiled.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
The intelligent person is one who annihilates his lust.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
There is none more courageous than the intelligent one.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
The intelligent person is one who safeguards his affair.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
The intelligent person is one who spreads his generosity.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
The intelligent person is one who stops at what he knows.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
The most intelligent person is the virtuous, fearful one.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
The most intelligent of people is the most modest of them.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
The most intelligent of you is the most submissive of you.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Verily the intelligent one is not beguiled by covetousness.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
One who has intelligence takes more lessons [from the past].
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
The virtues of an intelligent ruler are spread far and wide.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
One who has intelligence seeks pardon [for the wrong he does].
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
At times the intelligent person becomes blind to what is right.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Indeed only he is intelligent who is admonished by experiences.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Insinuation is the severest punishment for the intelligent one.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
The intelligent person is one who is admonished by experiences.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
The most intelligent of people is the closest of them to Allah.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
The most intelligent person is one who follows the wise people.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
As the intelligent one grows older, his intellect grows younger.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
The intelligent one likes the company of those who are like him.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
For the intelligent one, in every action there is self-discipline.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Only he is intelligent who takes out the grudges [from his heart].
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
The chest of an intelligent person is the strongbox of his secret.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
The intelligent person is one who covers up sins with forgiveness.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
The intelligent person strives in his work and shortens his hopes.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
The sufficiency of an intelligent person is through his knowledge.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
The intelligent one seeks perfection, the ignorant one seeks wealth.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
The intelligent person is one who guards his tongue from backbiting.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
An intelligent person does not lie and a believer does not fornicate.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
For the intelligent one, there is goodness in every action [he does].
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
For the intelligent one, there is nobility in every word [he speaks].
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
The intelligent person is one whose words are affirmed by his actions.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
One who does not have an intellect to adorn him, does not become noble.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
The wealth of an intelligent person is in his knowledge and his action.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
The intelligent one puts his self down and as a result he gets elevated.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
From the perfection of your intellect is your reliance on your intellect.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
One who has intelligence remains silent [until there is a need to speak].
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
The intelligent person is one who overpowers his contending vain desires.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
One who has intelligence remains chaste [and abstains from the forbidden].
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
One whose intellect is not complete, his evils are not safeguarded against.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
The most intelligent of people is the farthest of them from all vile things.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
The intelligent person is one who subdues his vain desire with his intellect.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
It is from the intelligence of a man that he not speak about all that he knows.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
One who does not use intellect is abased, and one who is abased is not revered.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
The intelligent person is one who renounces that which the ignorant one desires.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Be intelligent in the affairs of your religion and simple in your worldly affairs.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
The intellect of every person is manifested by that which is spoken by his tongue.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
The intelligent person is one who takes a lesson from [the experiences of] others.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
The intelligent person is one who opposes his vain desire in obedience to his Lord.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
He who is overcome by anger and lust should not be counted as an intelligent person.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
The enmity of an intelligent person is better than the friendship of an ignorant one.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
One who has intelligence takes lesson from his past and takes precaution for his soul.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
The most intelligent of people is the most submissive of them to Allah, the Glorified.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
It is a right upon the intelligent one to vanquish his vain desire before his adversary.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
The intelligent person is one who abstains from sins and keeps himself free from faults.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
The intelligent person is one who forsakes his lust and sells his world for his Hereafter.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
The ugly act of an intelligent person is better than the beautiful act of an ignorant person.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
The intelligent person does not speak except when he needs to or in order to present his case.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
The magnanimity of an intelligent person is his religion and his distinction is his etiquette.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
The reign of the intelligent one is like the relative who longs to unite [with his dear ones].
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
The [distinguishing] quality of the people of intellect is [their] lack of lust and negligence.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
The intelligent one is neither pushed to the extreme by violence nor is he hampered by weakness.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
The one who possesses intellect is not known except by [his] tolerance, temperance and kindness.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
He who is distracted by idle sport and seeks pleasure in amusement and song, has no intelligence.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
It is from the rights of the intelligent person to vanquish his vain desire before his adversary.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
The conjecture of an intelligent person is more correct than the certitude of an ignorant person.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
The intelligent one relies on his [hard] work, [while] the ignorant one relies on his aspiration.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
The most intelligent of people is one who sees his own fault and is blind to the fault of others.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
The intellect of every person is indicated by his tongue, and his merit is evinced by his diction.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
It behoves an intelligent person to address an ignorant one like a doctor addresses a sick patient.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
One whose intellect does not have the greatest control over him does not benefit from [any] advice.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
The most intelligent of people is the one who does not go beyond silence in punishing the ignorant.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
The most intelligent of people is the one who is most considering of the consequences [of actions].
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
The most intelligent of people is the one who forgives [and accepts the excuses of] others the most.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
The intelligent person is one who performs acts of kindness and puts his effort in its correct place.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
When you make an indirect reference to an intelligent person then you have tormented him with reproof.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Indeed, the intelligent one learns through discipline while the beasts are not trained except by beating.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
The sufficiency of an intelligent person is through his wisdom and his honour is through his contentment.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
The desire of an intelligent person is in wisdom and the ambition of an ignorant person is in foolishness.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
The intelligent person is one who fetters his tongue except from the remembrance [and extolment] of Allah.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
It behoves the intelligent person to earn praise through his wealth and to preserve himself from asking others.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
It is a right that is due on the intelligent one to work for the Hereafter and to seek more provisions [for it].
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
The intelligent person is one who controls himself when he gets angry, when he desires and when he is frightened.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
The intelligent person is one who submits to the decree [of Allah] and acts with judiciousness [and determination].
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
The intelligent person is one who puts things in their right places, and the ignorant one does the opposite of this.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
It behoves the intelligent person not to be harsh when he teaches, and not to scorn [others] when he gains knowledge.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
The speech of the intelligent is a nourishment [for the soul] and the reply of the ignorant is [nothing better than] silence.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Love of knowledge, virtuous forbearance and adhering to the right are from the merits of the people of reason and understanding.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
The intelligent person is one who suspects his [own] opinion and does not trust everything that his self makes decorous for him.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
The intelligent person is one who overcomes his vain desire and does not sell his Hereafter for his [temporary life in this] world.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Hinting at [and making indirect references to] the error of the intelligent person is one of the most agonizing punishments for him.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
It behoves the intelligent one to make arrangements for his Hereafter and to develop [and build] the abode of his permanent residence.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
The most intelligent of people is one whose seriousness overpowers his frivolity and who overcomes his vain desire with his intellect.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
When the intelligent one is quiet, he reflects and when he speaks, he remembers [and extols Allah] and when he observes, he takes lesson.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
I am amused by a man whose intellect is seen as an extension of his tongue, while his tongue is not seen as an extension of his intellect.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Half of the intelligent one is tolerance and [the other] half is feigning negligence [when encountering the bad behaviour of the ignorant].
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
It behoves the intelligent one to prepare provisions for his Hereafter and to maintain [and develop] the abode of his [permanent] residence.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
One who has intelligence awakens from his negligence, prepares for his journey and maintains [and develops] his abode of [permanent] residence.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
It behoves the intelligent person not to remain aloof from the obedience of Allah and the struggle against his [lower] self, in every situation.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
One whose intellect prevails over his lust and his forbearance [overcomes] his anger, then he is worthy of [being deemed as having] good conduct.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
The intelligent person acts when he knows and when he acts, he does so sincerely, and when he becomes sincere, he secludes himself [from others].
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
It behoves the intelligent person to work for the Hereafter and try to increase his provisions before he passes away and is lowered into his grave.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
The intelligent person is one who abstains from [the pleasures of] the lowly, perishing world and desires the sublime, everlasting, lofty Paradise.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
The most intelligent of people is the best of them in estimating his livelihood and the most serious of them in endeavouring to improve his Hereafter.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Indeed, the intelligent person is one who considers the different [expressed] opinions with correct reasoning and considers the consequences [of matters].
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
The intelligent person charges himself with performing that which is obligatory upon him and he does not charge himself with seeking that which is due to him.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
It is from the right of the intelligent person to count his evil action and his ugly conduct as being from the wretchedness of his circumstance and his misfortune.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
It behoves the intelligent person to increase his association with the scholars and the virtuous ones, and to keep away from the company of the evil and wicked ones.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Verily the intelligent person is one who looks in his today for his tomorrow, and strives to unshackle his soul, and works for that which must come to pass and which cannot be escaped.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
The practice of those who possess intellect and understanding is turning towards the permanent abode, turning away from the evanescent abode and being desirous of the Garden of Paradise.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
The quality of those who possess intellect and understanding is [their] turning towards the Eternal Abode, turning away from the evanescent abode, and yearning for the Garden of Paradise.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
It is not for the intelligent one to move out [of his home] except for three things: to do something to improve his Hereafter, or to earn his livelihood, or to enjoy what is not forbidden.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
The intelligent person is one who does not waste his [time and] energy in that which does not benefit him, and does not [strive to] acquire that which will not accompany him [after his death].
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Verily it behoves the intelligent one to be cautious of death in this world, and he should make good preparations before he arrives at the abode wherein one wishes for death but does not find it.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Verily the intelligent person is one whose intellect is [employed] in right guidance and whose view is in [the process of development and] growth, that is why his view is correct and his action praiseworthy.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
The most intelligent of people is one who is humbled in front of the truth so he submits himself to it, and is honoured by the truth so he does not undermine its establishment and acting upon it with goodness.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
It behoves the intelligent one to protect himself from the intoxication of wealth, the intoxication of power, the intoxication of knowledge, the intoxication of praise and the intoxication of youth, for each of these have foul odours that take away intelligence and reduces dignity.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim