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Virtues THE TRUSTWORTHY AND TRUSTWORTHINESS

Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Trustworthiness leads to truthfulness.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
The bane of trustworthiness is treachery.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
One who has no trustworthiness has no faith.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
The cornerstone of faith is trustworthiness.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
There is no faith in one who is not trustworthy.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Sound trustworthiness is a symbol of good conviction.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
There is no trustworthiness in one who has no religion.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Trustworthiness is a merit for the one who executes it.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Corruption of trustworthiness is submission to treachery.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Trustworthiness is a success for the one who observes it.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
The best [form of] trustworthiness is keeping one’s promise.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
One who acts with trustworthiness has perfected his religion.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
When trustworthiness becomes stronger, truthfulness increases.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Espouse trustworthiness for it is the best [form of] religiosity.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
The best trust that can be kept is fulfilling [one’s] obligations.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
When you are entrusted with something, then do not betray [the trust].
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
One who takes [the] keeping [of] trust lightly will fall into treachery.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Trustworthiness is [a sign of] faith; cheerfulness is [a form of] kindness.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Trustworthiness is preservation [and safeguarding of what has been entrusted].
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
When you entrust anyone [with something], then do not accuse them of treachery.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Successful is the one who clothes himself with loyalty and arms himself with trustworthiness.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Trustworthiness and loyalty are sincere actions, lying and fabrication are perfidious utterances.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Everything that is not fit to be disclosed is a trust, even if its confidentiality is not specifically sought.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Return the trust to the one who has entrusted it to you, and do not act treacherously with the one who betrayed your trust.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Return the trust when it is entrusted to you, and do not accuse anyone when you entrust something to him, for surely one who is not trustworthy has no faith.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
How few are the reliable, trustworthy people, and how many are the treacherous!
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim