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Many a spoken word is more piercing than an attack.
Ali ibn Abi Talib
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Either you are just or unjust. If you are just, then you will not keep aloof from the people, but will listen to them and meet their requirements. But if you are unjust, the people themselves will keep away from you.
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Beware of the flight of Blessings, For nothing that runs away is returned.
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If you are greeted then return the greetings more warmly. If you are favored, then repay the obligation manifold but he who takes the initiative will always excel in merit.
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Hide the good you do, and make known the good done to you.
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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. He ruins is present while worrying about his future - but weeps in the future by recalling his past. He lives as though death shall never come to him - but dies in a way as if he were never born.
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The weakest man is the one who is able to correct his moral defects, but doesn't take action.
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Do not take someone's silence as his pride, perhaps he is busy fighting with his self.
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Asceticism is not that you should not own anything, but that nothing should own you.
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Do not share the knowledge with which you have been blessed with everyone in general, as you do with some people in particular and know that there are some men in whom Allah, may He he glorified, has placed hidden secrets, which they are forbidden to reveal.
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A moment of patience in a moment of anger prevents a thousand moments of regret.
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Happiness comes towards those which believe in him
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A person of riyaa (showing off) has three characteristics : He is lazy when alone, energetic when with others, and increases in his actions when he is praised while decreasing in them when he is criticized.
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Greed is permanent slavery
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People's hearts are like wild animals. They attach their selves to those that love and train them.
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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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