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ADMISSION AND CONFESSION OF ONE'S SINS ADMONITION ADORNMENT AFFLUENCE AND THE RICH APTNESS ASTUTENESS ATTENTION BEAUTY BEING INDEPENDENT OF OTHERS BEING OPTIMISTIC BEING PLEASED AND SATISFIED CALMNESS AND SOLEMNITY CAUSES AND MEANS CHASTITY CHIVALRY CHOICE COMING TO THE AID OF THE AGGRIEVED COMPETENCE CONFIDING IN OTHERS CONSULTATION AND DELIBERATION CONTENTMENT AND THE CONTENTED COURAGE AND THE COURAGEOUS COURTEOUSNESS DELIBERATENESS AND ACTING UNHURRIEDLY DIGNITY AND REPUTATION EMINENCE AND THE EMINENT EMPATHY ENDEAVOURS EQUITY FAITH FELICITY FINANCIAL SUPPORT GENTLENESS AND SOFTNESS GIFTS GLORY AND THE HONOURED ONE GOD-WARINESS GOOD GOOD DEEDS GOOD ETIQUETTE GRANDEUR HAPPINESS AND JOY he is the true, caring friend. HIGH REGARD HINTING Hiw numerous are friends during times of prosperity and how few they are during the difficult times! HONOUR AND THE HONOURABLE HUNGER JUBILATION JUDICIOUSNESS JUSTICE AND THE JUST KEEPING PROMISES AND FULFILLING PLEDGES KNOCKING THE DOOR LENIENCY AND GENTLENESS LOWERING THE GAZE MAGNANIMITY MALADIES MEETING MERCY AND COMPASSION MODE OF CONDUCT MODERATION MODESTY AND SHAME OBEYING COMMANDMENTS ONE WHO ACTS WITH DELIBERATENESS PATIENCE AND THE PATIENT PEACE AND RECONCILIATION PERFECTION PHYSICAL BEAUTY POWER AND MIGHT READINESS AND PREPARATION RECOMPENSE REMAINING PURE AND FREE FROM SIN REMORSE AND REGRET RENUNCIATION OF WORLDLY PLEASURES100 RENUNCIATION OF WORLDLY PLEASURES101 RENUNCIATION OF WORLDLY PLEASURES102 RENUNCIATION OF WORLDLY PLEASURES103 RENUNCIATION OF WORLDLY PLEASURES104 RENUNCIATION OF WORLDLY PLEASURES105 RENUNCIATION OF WORLDLY PLEASURES106 RENUNCIATION OF WORLDLY PLEASURES107 RENUNCIATION OF WORLDLY PLEASURES108 RENUNCIATION OF WORLDLY PLEASURES109 RENUNCIATION OF WORLDLY PLEASURES110 RENUNCIATION OF WORLDLY PLEASURES111 RENUNCIATION OF WORLDLY PLEASURES112 RENUNCIATION OF WORLDLY PLEASURES113 RENUNCIATION OF WORLDLY PLEASURES114 RENUNCIATION OF WORLDLY PLEASURES115 RENUNCIATION OF WORLDLY PLEASURES116 RENUNCIATION OF WORLDLY PLEASURES117 RENUNCIATION OF WORLDLY PLEASURES118 RENUNCIATION OF WORLDLY PLEASURES57 RENUNCIATION OF WORLDLY PLEASURES58 RENUNCIATION OF WORLDLY PLEASURES59 RENUNCIATION OF WORLDLY PLEASURES60 RENUNCIATION OF WORLDLY PLEASURES61 RENUNCIATION OF WORLDLY PLEASURES62 RENUNCIATION OF WORLDLY PLEASURES63 RENUNCIATION OF WORLDLY PLEASURES64 RENUNCIATION OF WORLDLY PLEASURES65 RENUNCIATION OF WORLDLY PLEASURES66 RENUNCIATION OF WORLDLY PLEASURES67 RENUNCIATION OF WORLDLY PLEASURES68 RENUNCIATION OF WORLDLY PLEASURES69 RENUNCIATION OF WORLDLY PLEASURES70 RENUNCIATION OF WORLDLY PLEASURES71 RENUNCIATION OF WORLDLY PLEASURES72 RENUNCIATION OF WORLDLY PLEASURES73 RENUNCIATION OF WORLDLY PLEASURES74 RENUNCIATION OF WORLDLY PLEASURES75 RENUNCIATION OF WORLDLY PLEASURES76 RENUNCIATION OF WORLDLY PLEASURES77 RENUNCIATION OF WORLDLY PLEASURES78 RENUNCIATION OF WORLDLY PLEASURES79 RENUNCIATION OF WORLDLY PLEASURES80 RENUNCIATION OF WORLDLY PLEASURES81 RENUNCIATION OF WORLDLY PLEASURES82 RENUNCIATION OF WORLDLY PLEASURES83 RENUNCIATION OF WORLDLY PLEASURES84 RENUNCIATION OF WORLDLY PLEASURES85 RENUNCIATION OF WORLDLY PLEASURES86 RENUNCIATION OF WORLDLY PLEASURES87 RENUNCIATION OF WORLDLY PLEASURES88 RENUNCIATION OF WORLDLY PLEASURES89 RENUNCIATION OF WORLDLY PLEASURES90 RENUNCIATION OF WORLDLY PLEASURES91 RENUNCIATION OF WORLDLY PLEASURES92 RENUNCIATION OF WORLDLY PLEASURES93 RENUNCIATION OF WORLDLY PLEASURES94 RENUNCIATION OF WORLDLY PLEASURES95 RENUNCIATION OF WORLDLY PLEASURES96 RENUNCIATION OF WORLDLY PLEASURES97 RENUNCIATION OF WORLDLY PLEASURES98 RENUNCIATION OF WORLDLY PLEASURES99 RESTRAINT RIGHTEOUS PRACTICES SEEKING JUSTICE SENSE OF HONOUR AND POSSESSIVENESS SILENCE SINCERITY AND DEVOTION STATUS AND WORTH SUCCESS, PROSPERITY AND SALVATION TAKING THE INITIATIVE THE BEAUTIFUL THE BELIEVER THE BROTHER, THE FRIEND, THE ASSOCIATE AND THE COMPANION THE COMPASSIONATE THE EQUITABLE THE EXPERIENCED THE FELICITOUS THE GRANT THE IDEAL ONE THE INNOCENT THE INTELLIGENT THE INTERCESSOR AND INTERCEDER THE JUDICIOUS THE MARTYR THE NOBLE -MINDED AND MUNIFICENT THE ONE WHO PRESENTS AN ARGUMENT THE REMORSEFUL THE SAGACIOUS THE SAVINGS THE SCHOLAR THE STRONG THE TRUTHFUL THE VIRTUOUS THE WISE TOLERANCE TRUTHFULNESS UNDERSTANDING VEHEMENCE VERIFICATION VIRTUES AND VICES WISDOM

Ethics Virtues AFFLUENCE AND THE RICH

Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
A rich person is he who becomes rich through contentment.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
A [truly] rich person is one who prefers contentment.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
The rich person feels at home [even when he is] in a strange land.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
The ignorance of a rich person abases him whereas the knowledge of a poor person elevates him.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
At times a rich person may be lowlier than an ugly sheep.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Sometimes a rich person may be needier than a poor person.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Few are the rich who [financially] support and assist others.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
How many of the rich are unneeded [because of their unwillingness to help others].
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
It is obligatory upon the rich person not to withhold his wealth from the poor.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Never count the one from whose wealth others don't get sustenance as a rich person.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
There is no offence greater than the offence of the rich who deprives the needy.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Opulence through other than Allah is the greatest indigence and wretchedness.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Seek refuge with Allah from the intoxication of riches, for indeed it has an intoxication that takes long to recover from.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
The richest of you are the most contented among you.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
The greatest of all riches is the intellect.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
The most honourable wealth is abandoning [false] aspirations.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
The best of riches is that through with one's honour is secured.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
The richest of the rich is one who is not a prisoner to greed.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
The greatest of riches is contentment and toleration of poverty.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Opulence brings about transgression.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Riches turn one who is not a master into a master.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Wealth and poverty manifest the essences of men and their qualities.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
The brother of affluence is one who covers himself with contentment.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Arrogance in wealth sows the seed (or warns) of abasement in poverty.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
The bane of affluence is stinginess.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
The best affluence is the affluence of the soul.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Many an opulence leads to lasting poverty.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
The alms-tax of affluence [and comfort] is being good with neighbours and keeping ties with near relatives.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Two things are such that their value is recognized only by one who has lost them: wealth and power.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Restraining oneself from that which is in the possession of [other] people is present affluence.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
The deception of wealth leads to insolence.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Loss of wealth is an advantage for the sagacious and a [cause of] regret for the foolish.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
The whole of affluence is in contentment and satisfaction.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
One who would like to gain affluence without possessions, prestige without authority and abundance without kinsfolk, then let him them come out of the abjectness of disobedience to Allah into the honour of His obedience, for indeed [through this] he will find all of these.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
He who has been granted hopelessness in [obtaining] what people possess, contentment with what he is given and satisfaction with the divine decree has acquired affluence.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Do not be delighted by wealth and comfort, and do not be grieved by poverty and tribulation, for verily gold is tested by fire and the believer is tested by tribulation.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Affluence through [complete reliance on] Allah is the greatest affluence.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
One who does not become needless of this world through Allah has no religion.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
There is no affluence except through contentment.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
No affluence [can be acquired] with mismanagement.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim