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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

People are like writings on a scroll [of parchment], whenever part of it is rolled up, another part of it is unrolled.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

People are children of this world, and a child is naturally inclined to love its mother.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

People are divided into two types of seekers, and each seeker is also sought after; so whoever seeks this world is sought after by death until it takes him out from it, and whoever seeks the Hereafter is sought after by this world, until he gets his sustenance from it in full.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

People are of three types: the godly scholar, the student who is on the path of salvation and the uncultivated rabble who run after every caller, neither seeking light from the effulgence of knowledge nor taking recourse to any strong support.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

People are like trees, their drink is one but their fruits are different.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

People are made deficient and flawed, except those whom Allah, the Glorified, protects. The questioner among them aims to embarrass and confuse while the answerer creates trouble. It is not long until the one who has the best views among them is turned away from his good opinion by pleasure or displeasure, and at any moment the most strong-willed among them will get affected by a single glance or transformed by a single expression.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

The people who work in this world are of two types: one works in this world for this world; his world has indeed distracted him from his Hereafter. He fears poverty for those whom he will leave behind but feels safe from it himself; so he spends his entire life for the benefit of others. The other one works in this world for that which is to come after it, so that which is [allotted] for him comes to him without [extra] work. Thus he acquires both the shares together and gains possession of both the abodes collectively.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Out of fear of humiliation, people are hastening [towards] humiliation.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

The best of people are those who benefit others the most.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

The most felicitous person is the intelligent believer.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

The most excellent person is the generous one who possesses certitude.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

The best people in fulfilling the rights of others are the best in their [following of] Islam.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

The loftiest of people is the one who humbles himself.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

The strongest person is one who gains an upper hand over his [carnal] soul.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

The strongest person is one who overpowers his vain desires.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

The most sagacious person is one who rejects [the pleasures of] his worldly life.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

The person who makes the most profit is one who buys the Hereafter with this world.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

The person who suffers the greatest loss is one who settles for this world in exchange for the Hereafter.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

The best person is one whose own faults distract him from the faults of others.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

The people who are most felicitous are those who are least interested this world.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

The best person is one whose soul is pure and who is indifferent towards this world despite being wealthy.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

The most enviable person is the one who rushes to perform good deeds.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Of all the people, the most deserving of compassion are: the scholar upon whom an ignorant person passes judgment, the noble person who is dominated by a vile person and the virtuous person who is under the command of a vicious person.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

The best people in this world are the generous ones, and in the Hereafter, the God-wary.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

The person in the worst condition is one whose material wealth is cut off but his habit [of spending] remains.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

The person who has the weariest heart is one whose endeavour is great and whose magnanimity is abundant, yet his [financial ability and] resources are minimal.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

The person living in the most straitened circumstances is one whose desire is much, whose endeavour is great and whose provisions are plenty but his support is less.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

The best person is one who resists his vain desires and better than him is he who rejects [the pleasures of] his worldly life.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

The most wretched person is one who is overcome by his vain desire so his worldly life gains mastery over him and he corrupts his Hereafter.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Verily people are only either scholars or seekers of knowledge, all others are rabble.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Indeed the elite among the people are only those who have admirable intellects, honourable ambitions and are possessors of nobility.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Let the person who enjoys your favour the most be he who is most protective of the weak and acts most in accordance with the truth.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

The best person is he who shows forbearance if he is angered, forgives if he is oppressed, and does good [in return] if is wronged.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

The best person is one who benefits the people.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

The best person is he who bears the responsibility of providing for the people.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

The best of people are the most pious amongst them and the worst of them are most immoral amongst them.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

The best person is one who shows gratitude when he is given, remains patient when he is tested [with tribulations], and forgives when he is wronged.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

The best person is one who removes greed from his heart and resists his vain desires in obedience to his Lord.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

The best person is one who purifies his soul from lustful desires, quells his anger and pleases his Lord.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

The best person is one who is generous and thankful in times of prosperity.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

The best person is one who is altruistic and patient in times of hardship.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

The best person is one whose soul is uninterested in worldly pleasures, whose desire is less, whose lust is dead, whose faith is pure and whose certitude is true.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

The entry of people into [discussion about] a thing is the prelude to its [coming into] existence.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

The worst person is one who deceives others.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

The worst person is one who oppresses others.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

The worst person is one who neither accepts excuses nor pardons offences.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

The worst person is one who considers himself to be the best of them.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

The worst person is one who does not care if people see him doing evil.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

The worst person is one who does not give thanks for blessings and does not respect the inviolable boundaries [of others].

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

The worst person is one who slanders his brothers and forgets the favours [done to him by others].

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

The worst person is one from whom good is not expected and from whose evil people do not feel secure.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

The worst person is one who neither keeps the trust [that has been placed in his care] nor does he avoid treachery.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

The worst person is one who neither forgives mistakes nor covers up the faults [of others].

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

The worst person is one who assists [the oppressor] against the oppressed.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

The worst person is he who puts on the armour of vileness and helps the unjust.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

The worst person is one who looks for the faults of others while turning a blind eye to his own faults.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

The worst person is one who fears the people with regards to [fulfilling the commandments of] his Lord but does not fear his Lord with regards to the people.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

The worst person is one who hopes for calamities to befall on others.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

The worst person is one who does not trust anyone because of his suspicion and who is not trusted by anyone because of his evil actions.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

The worst person is one whom people are cautious about out of fear of his evil.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

The worst person is one who repays good with evil while the best of people is one who repays evil with good.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

The worst person is he who has lengthy aspirations and does evil deeds.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

One who knows [the true nature of] the people, isolates himself.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

One who wishes ill for the people will not remain safe from affliction.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Whoever knows the [true nature of the] people does not rely on them.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Whoever is ignorant about people has confidence in them.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Whoever deals with the people in a beautiful manner, they respond to him in a similar fashion.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

The best person is one who deals most gently with others and the most sagacious of them is one who is most persevering on the truth.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

The person who has the most hope of reformation is one who hastens to change himself when he learns of his faults.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

The person who is most concerned about you is the one who is most helpful to you in improving [and reforming] yourself and is most sincere in advising you with regards to your religion.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Verily the best person in the sight of Allah is one who enlivens his mind, kills off his lust and exerts himself for the betterment of his Hereafter.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

People are of two types: the seeker who does not find [what he is looking for] and the finder who is not satisfied [with what he has found].

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

People are of two types: the generous one who does not possess [anything to bestow] and the one who possesses [plenty] but does not help others [with it].

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

People are only [one of] of two types: the follower of [divine] law or the innovator of an innovation.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

It behoves the one who knows the [true nature of] people to be uninterested in that which they possess.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

People are fine as long as they are dissimilar from one another.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

The best-off people in the Hereafter are the poorest of them in this world.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

The most eminent person is one who is humble despite his high standing and who shows humility despite his might.

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