-‘খোদার শপথ! যদি ষড়যন্ত্র অপছন্দনীয় ব্যাপার না হতো,তাহলে আমি হতাম বিশ্বের সর্বশ্রেষ্ঠ চতুর লোক ৷ কিন্তু প্রত্যেক প্রতিশ্রুতি ভঙ্গ করাই পাপ ৷ আর প্রতিটি পাপই হলো অকৃতজ্ঞতা ৷ আর প্রতিটি হঠকারিতা বা চাতুর্য এমন এক পতাকার মতো যেই পতাকার মাধ্যমে কেয়ামতে তা চিনতে পারা যাবে৷ খোদার শপথ ! আমি ষড়যন্ত্রের মাধ্যমে নতজানু হবো না, কিংবা কঠিন পরিস্থিতির মধ্যেও অক্ষম হবো না ৷" -হযরত আলী (রাঃ)
-যে পৃথিবীকে বিশ্বাস করে, পৃথিবী তার সাথে ছলনা করে ।
-জ্ঞানী ব্যক্তি আগে চিন্তা করে পরে কথা বলে , বোকা ব্যক্তি আগে কথা বলে পরে চিন্তা করে ।
-ভয় কর আল্লাহ (পাক) কে তাহলে তোমাকে আর কাউকে ভয় করতে হবে না ।
-আল্লাহর (পাক) কথা হ্রদয়ের জন্য ওষুধ ।
-বিশ্বাসহীন ধনী সব থেকে গরিব ।
-আগুন্তক সে যার কোন বন্দু নেই ।
English:
- Be generous but not extravagant, be frugal but not miserly.
- Live amongst people in such a manner that if you die they weep over you and if you are alive they crave for your company.
- If you overpower your enemy, then pardon him by way of thankfulness to Allah, for being able to subdue him.
- Unfortunate is he who cannot gain a few sincere friends during his life and more unfortunate is the one who has gained them and then lost them (through his deeds).
- A wise man first thinks and then speaks and a fool speaks first and then thinks.
- Man is a wonderful creature; he sees through the layers of fat (eyes), hears through a bone (ears) and speaks through a lump of flesh (tongue).
- Be afraid of a gentleman when he is hungry, and of a mean person when his stomach is full.
- The best kind of wealth is to give up inordinate desires.
-Fear God and you will have no cause to fear anyone.
-Resignation to the Will of God is the cure for the disease of the heart.
-The Word of God is the medicine of the heart.
-Lead such a life that when you die people will mourn you, and while you are alive they long for your company.
-The days of your life pass away like clouds, so do good while you are alive.
-Of all follies, the greatest is to love the world.
-Opportunity is swift of flight, but slow to return.
-The most happy is he to whom God has given a good wife.
-He who knows himself knows God.
-Do not sell your conscience for anything but heaven.
-The disease of the heart is worse than the disease of the body.
-To fight against one's desires is the greatest of all fights.
-The strongest among you is he who subdues himself.
-Wealth and greed are the roots of all evil.
-Riches without faith are the greatest poverty.
-A man's worth depends upon the nobility of his aspirations.
-Knowledge enlivens the soul.
-The learned lives although he dies.
-The sum total of excellence is knowledge.
-To respect the learned is to respect God.
-Generosity hides shortcomings.
-The wealth of a miser is as useless as a pebble.
-Desire is one's most inveterate enemy.
-Those who walk on the surface of the earth shall one day be interred in it.
-Every breath of man brings him nearer to death.
-People are asleep as long as they live. They are awakened when they die.
-Patience is the fruit of faith.
-Virtue never dies.
-A man's glory from his virtue is greater than the glory of his pedigree.
-No shelter is safer than piety.
-A man's behaviour is the index of his mind.
-Courtesy costs nothing but buys everything.
-Clemency graces power.
-Jealousy devours virtue as fire devours fuel.
-He that lends a listening ear to reproach is one of those [who] deserves reproach.
-Forgiveness is the crown of greatness.
-Carnal appetites are nets spread by the devil.
-Every arrow does not hit [its] mark, nor is every prayer granted.
-Ostentatiousness spoils prayer.
-Honour your parents and your sons will honour you.
-A stranger is he who has no friends.
-When hopes are frustrated despair becomes the way of life.
-He who trusts the world the world betrays him.