Body is purified by water. Ego by tears. Intellect is purified by knowledge. And soul is purified with love.
IMAM ALIAlways consider your intellect to be lacking; otherwise too much faith in it surely leads to error.
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The wiser a man is, the less talkative will he be.
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Never make a decision in anger and never make a promise in happiness.
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I wonder at a man who loses hope of salvation when the door of repentance is open for him.
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How many lessons there are and how little they are taken.
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The days of life pass away like clouds, so do good while you are alive.
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Do not use the sharpness of your speech on your mother who taught you how to speak.
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Don’t engage your heart in grief over the past or you wont be ready for what is coming.
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Silence is the best reply to a fool.
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Fear the sins that you commit in secret, because the Witness of those sins is the Judge Himself!
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Man ruins is present while worrying about his future – – but weeps in the future by recalling his past.
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How strange and foolish is man. He looses his health in gaining wealth. Then to regain health he wastes his wealth.
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Do not let your difficulties fill you with anxiety, after all it is only in the darkest nights that stars shine more brightly.
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People are of two types, they are either your brothers in faith or your equals in humanity.
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The word of God is the medicine of the heart.
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If you overpower your enemy, then pardon him by way of thankfulness to Allah, for being able to subdue him.
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