Post by toweringniceguy on Jan 23, 2007 13:04:37 GMT 10
Memorable Quotes and quotations from Hazrat Ali Ibn-e-Abi Talib
- If you overpower your enemy, then pardon him by way of thankfulness to Allah, for being able to subdue him.
- A wise man first thinks and then speaks and a fool speaks first and then thinks.
- The best kind of wealth is to give up inordinate desires.
- Be afraid of a gentleman when he is hungry, and of a mean person when his stomach is full.
- 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.
- 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).
- 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).
- If you overpower your enemy, then pardon him by way of thankfulness to Allah, for being able to subdue him.
- A wise man first thinks and then speaks and a fool speaks first and then thinks.
- The best kind of wealth is to give up inordinate desires.
- Be afraid of a gentleman when he is hungry, and of a mean person when his stomach is full.
- 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.
- 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).
- 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).
Chand meri zameen phool mera watan