Sahabah

"By God! You are a liar! By God! You are too lowly born! Such a thing is not for you, nor for him. No, by God! God would only let you do that if you left our faith and professed belief in another religion. You, your father and your grand-father have been guided by the religion of God, the religion of my father, the religion of my brother and my grand-father. You, a commander who has authority, are vilifying unjustly and oppress with your authority."

"O my grief! Your life will be violently wrenched from you and that is more wounding to my heart and harsher to my soul."

"(Allah rendered) patience as a help for getting reward."

"Allah executed and rendered justice for the sake of putting together and harmonization of the hearts."

"Allah set Hajj for the consolidation and reinforcement of the religion."

"Fasting (is) for the maintainance and firmness of your sincerity."

"Alms (is) for the purity of your soul, and flourishment and expansion of your sustenence."

"And (Allah set) the subordination and obedience of us (the houshold of the Prophet (saww)) for the security of society's system, and our Imāmat as a safety from seggregation and disunity."

"Service (is) the cause of your getting distant from pride."

"Allah made the faith for you as a purity from polytheism (and unbelief)."

"I have been hired by Allah to get a wage, which if the space between the Earth and sky is filled up with pearls, still (the wage) would be more than it, for each of the questions I may answer you. Therefore, I deserve it that I must not feel tired or exhausted (in answering your questions)."

"First thy neighbour, and there after your own house."

"Oh Muslims! Is my inheritance usurped? Oh son of Abu Quhafa (Abu Bakr), is it in the Book of Allah that you inherit your father and I do not inherit my father? Surely you have done a strange thing! Did you intendedly desert the Book of Allah and turned your back on it? Allah said: "And Solomon was David's heir." (27:16); and said about John son of Zechariah: "Grant me from Thyself an heir, who should inherit me and inherit from the children of Jacob." (19:5-6) and said: "And the possessors of relationships are nearer to each other in the ordinance of Allah." (8:75), and He said: "Allah enjoins you concerning your children: The male shall have the equal of the portion of two females." (4:11), and He said: "Bequest is prescribed for you when death approaches one of you, if he leaves behind wealth for parents and near relatives." (2:180). You claimed that I have no position, and no inheritance from my father, and there is no kinship between us. So did Allah distinguish you with a verse, from which He excluded my father? Or do you say: people of two religions do not inherit each other? Am I and my father not of one religion? Or are you more aware of the Qur’an than my father and my cousin? So, here it is before you! Take it with its noseband and saddle! It shall dispute with you on the Day of Punishment; what a fair judge Allah is, the master (of the inheritance) is Muhammad, and the appointment is the Day of Resurrection. At the time of the Hour the wrongdoers shall lose, and it shall not benefit you to regret then! For every Message, there is a time limit, and ye shall know to whom a punishment that will confound him comes, and upon whom a lasting doom will fall."

"God has required us (the Ahlul Bayt) to be obeyed for the sake of protection of the Ummah (community) and Imāmat (leadership); and our leadership is obligatory to protect against disunity."

"Allah made joining and connecting with the kinship and cognation, the cause of lengthening of life."

"And (Allah made) the kindness to parents as a protectional (shield) to His wrath and displeasure."

"Commanding goodness and forbiding to do evil (are) for the amendment and correction of society and the common folks."

"Associating with corrupt people makes you subject to suspicion."

"The most generous person is the one who offers help to those who do not expect him to help."

"Tolerance is man’s ornament, keeping promises is a sign of nobility, and bonding with others is a grace."

"When you are frustrated and do not know a way out, only flexibility and moderation towards difficulties will save you."

"Patience in a person glows like a jewel."

"Anybody who would like to have a long life and make his subsistence expanded, should pay visits to his own relatives."

"One who pursues a goal through sinful ways, will ironically distance himself from that goal, and will approach what he was afraid of."

"Honor and dignity of man is only in virtue and piety."

"If one does not have these five things there is no good in him: intellect, religion, etiquette, shame and good manners."

"Whoever seeks the satisfaction of people through disobedience of God, then God subjects him to people."

"The historical progress of Islam, according to Gandhi, is not the legacy of the Muslim sword but a result of sacrifices of Muslim saints like Husain."

"In a distant age and climate, the tragic scene of the death of Husein will awaken the sympathy of the coldest reader."

"If Husain fought to quench his worldly desires, (as alleged by certain Christian critics) then I do not understand why his sisters, wives and children accompanied him. It stands to reason therefore that he sacrificed purely for Islam."

"Those who worship God for the hope of gaining, they’re not real worshippers, they’re merchants. Those who worship God out of fear (of punishment), they’re slaves. And those who worship God to be grateful towards their creator, they are the free people, and their worship is a real one."

"Do you think that you can frighten me with death? Could a worse disaster happen to you than killing me? I do not know what to say to you. I can only address you as the brother of Al-Aws addressed his cousin when he met the latter as he was going to help the Apostle of God (Prophet Muhammad)."

"Yazid is a transgressor, a drunkard, killer of innocent people and an open sinner, we will never give our allegiances to the likes of him."

"I never revolted in vain, as a rebel or as a tyrant, but I rose seeking reformation for the nation of my grandfather Muhammad. I intend to enjoin good and forbid evil, to act according to the traditions of my grandfather, and my father ‘Alī ibn Abī Tālib."

"Oh people, the Messenger of God said: Whoever sees an aggressive tyrant that legalizes the forbiddens of God, breeches divine laws, opposes the tradition of the Prophet, oppresses the worshippers of God, and does not concede his opposition to God in word or in deed, surely Allah will place that tyrant (in the Hell) where he deserves."

"Never will be salvaged the people who win the consent of the creature, at the cost of the dissatisfaction of the creator."

"Our enemy is the enemy of my grandfather, Muhammad."

"Oh God! Surely you know that whatever we did was not a competition to gain worldly positions and not for the worthless physical attractions of the world. But to show the signs of religious ways and to remove corruption from your lands, so that the oppressed feel secured and act according to your traditions and rules."

"Receiving education nurtures human wisdom."

"Increase of experiences, increases the wisdom of mankind."

"Wisdom will not be complete except by following the truth."

"Among the signs of a learned man is criticising his own words and being informed of various viewpoints."

"Knowledge facilitates comprehension and experience increases wisdom."

"Two signs of learned person are: acceptance of other people's criticism, and being knowledgeable about the angles and dimensions of rhetoric and debate."

"The wise one does not speak to one whom he fears he shall be belied, he does not ask anyone of anything if he fears he shall not give, and he does not repose hope on one whom he does not trust."

"If you neither believe in religion nor fear the hereafter, then at least be free from tyranny and arrogance"

"People are slaves to the world, and as long as they live favorable and comfortable lives, they are loyal to religious principles. However, at hard times, the times of trials, true religious people are scarce."

"One who reveals your faults to you like a mirror is your true friend, and one who flatters you and covers up your faults is your enemy."

"Death with honor is better than a life of degradation."

"In the name of Allah, the compassionate, the merciful. This is what Khalid ibn-al-Walid would grant to the inhabitants of Damascus if he enters therein: he promises to give them security for their lives, property and churches. Their city wall shall not be demolished, neither shall any Moslem be quartered in their houses. Thereunto we give to them the pact of Allah and the protection of His Prophet, the caliphs and the believers. So long as they pay the poll tax, nothing but good shall befall them."