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Ali ibn Abi Talib

Ali[a] (/ˈɑːli, ɑːˈliː/; Arabic: علي‎, translit. ʿAlī, pronounced [ʕaliː]) (15 September 601 – 29 January 661) was the cousin and the son-in-law of Muhammad, the prophet of Islam. He ruled as the fourth caliph from 656 to 661, but he is regarded as the rightful immediate successor to prophet Muhammad by the Shia Muslims.

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A True friend is one who sees a fault, gives you advice and who defends you in your absence.

Absence, Advice, Gives, Giving, True Friend

Perfecting one's intellect causes one to speak less, and those words spoken will be adorned with wisdom.

Causes, Intellect, Islamic, Speak, Speak Less, Spoken

Whoever desires Paradise, proceeds towards goodness; whoever fears Hell, refrains from the impulses of passions; whoever believes firmly in death, detests wordly life; and whoever recognises the worldly life, the trials and tribulations (of life) become slight for him.

Believe, Fears, Impulses, Islamic, Towards, Wisdom

One who rushes madly after inordinate desire, runs the risk of encountering destruction and death.

Death, Desire, Destruction, Risk, Running

Do not take someone's silence as his pride, perhaps he is busy fighting with his self.

Busy, Fighting, Pride, Self, Take

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.

Allah, Blessed, Men, People, Secrets, Share

Be a good man to Allah and a bad man to yourself (desires); and be one of the commoners among the people

Among, Bad, Islamic, Men, People, Wisdom

Your souls are precious and can only be equal to the price of Paradise, therefore sell them only at that price

Equal, Islamic, Price, Soul, Souls, Wisdom

A girl is a good deed and a boy is a bounty. Good deeds are rewarded while people are held accountable for bounties.

Accountable, Boy, Boys, Girl, Islamic, Rewarded

Man comes from a drop of semen and leaves as a piece of dust. He doesn't know when he came and he doesn't know when he's leaving, yet he walks on the earth thinking he knows everything.

Dust, Everything, Men, Semen, Thinking

Recitation of the Qur'an without contemplation and thought is futile.

Contemplation, Futile, Recitation, Thought

One who thinks and reflects develops his foresight and vision.

Educational, Foresight, Thinking, Thinks, Vision

The vision of the eye is limited; the vision of the heart transcends all barriers of time and space.

Eye, Heart, Space, Time

Glory is for none but the learned, Guided are they - and proofs for seekers of guidance. Every person is measured based on how much of it (knowledge) he mastered, The ignorant are to the learned their enemies, Succeed with knowledge and live energetically forever, Men are all dead, only the possessors of knowledge are truly alive

Guided, Ignorant, Islamic, Men, Person, Wisdom

Be like a flower that gives its fragrance even to the hand that crushed it.

Compassion, Crushed, Flower, Gives, Hands, Like

Lead such a life, that, when you die, the people may mourn you, and while you are alive they long for your company.

Alive, Long, People

The best revenge is to improve yourself.

Best Revenge, Improve, Improving Yourself, Revenge

Do not be misled by appearances for these are apt to be deceptive.

Appearance, Apt, Deceptive, Misled

The best deed of a great man is to forgive and forget.

Forget, Forgive, Forgive And Forget, Forgiving, Man, Men

Never explain yourself to anyone, because the one who likes you would not need it, and the one dislikes you wouldn't believe it.

Believe, Dislikes, Likes, Needs

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