Illness and PurificationIllness and Purification
"May Allah make your illness a means of shedding your sins. For indeed, there is no reward in sickness itself, but it washes away sins and sheds them as leaves
"May Allah make your illness a means of shedding your sins. For indeed, there is no reward in sickness itself, but it washes away sins and sheds them as leaves
"The heart of a fool is in his mouth, and the tongue of a wise man is in his heart."
"The tongue of a wise man is behind his heart, and the heart of a fool is behind his tongue."
"Recommended (supererogatory) acts of worship do not bring one near to Allah if they harm the obligatory ones."
"The greatest wealth is Wisdom (Intellect); the greatest poverty is Foolishness; the worst loneliness is Vanity (Egoism); and the best nobility is Good Manners."
"Imam Ali (as) said to those running before him: What is this that you are doing? They replied: It is a custom of ours by which we honor our leaders.
"Whoever hastens to say about people what they dislike, they will say about him what they do not know."
"The best form of wealth is the abandonment of desires."
"Be generous but not extravagant; be frugal (economical) but not miserly."
"The doer of good is better than the good deed itself, and the doer of evil is worse than the evil deed itself."