There is no security from the evil of the one who is disregarded & humiliated in his own eyes. (TUHFUL AQOOL , P 483)
قال علي النقي (ع) مَنْ هانَتْ عَلَيْهِ نَفْسُهُ فَلا تَاْمَنْ شَرَّهُ (تحف العقول ص483)
The world is a market , a community reaps benefit in it & there is an other one which faces loss. (TUHFUL AQOOL , P 483)
قال علي النقي (ع) اَلدُّنْيا سُوقٌ رَبَح فيها قَوْمٌ وَ خَسِرَ اخَروُن (تحف العقول ص483)
The one who is pleased with himself: (his own state & condition) those displeased & angry with him shall get abundent in number. (BIHAR UL ANWAR VOL , 78 , P 369)
قال علي النقي (ع) مَنْ رَضِيَ عَنْ نَفْسِهِ كَثُرَ السّاخِطُونَ عَلَيْهِ (الانوار البهيّة ص 143) (بحارالانوار ج78ص369)
Poverty & adversity is the cause of getting the souls rebelion & revolt & the gravity of dismay. (BIHAR UL ANWAR , VOL 78 , P 368)
قال علي النقي (ع) اَلْفَقْرُ شرَّة النَّفْسِ وَ شِدَّةُ القُنُوطِ (بحارالانوار ج78ص368)
Better than the good deed is the one who performs it. And more beauiful than the beauty (of speech) is the sayer of it (decent words). And superior to the knowledge is its bearer. & caner. And worse than the evil is its attracter. And more horrible than the horror is the one who rides it. (AYAN U SHIA , VOL 2 (NEW EDITION) P 39)
قال علي النقي (ع) خَيْرٌ مِنَ الْخَيْرِ فاعِلُهُ وَ اَجْمَلُ مِنَ الْجَميِ قائِلُهُ وَ اَرْجَحُ مِنَ الْعِلْمِ حامِلُهُ وَ شَرُّ مِنَ الشَّرِّ جالِبُهُ وَ اَهْولُ مِنَ الْهَوْلِ راكِبُهُ (اعيان الشيعه ( الطبع الجديد) ج2 ص 39)
Allah can not be defined & described except with what He has defined himself. And how can that one (Allah) be defined wits are unable from the perception of whome & the imagination & fancy are short of finding him. And the memories of mind are unable to encompass him & the eyes & vision is unable to sight & surrround him. And lack (the stength of limiting & encompassing him. And the eyes are short of strength & weak from seeing & bounding him. (TUHFUL AQOOL , P 482)
قال علي النقي (ع) انَّ اللهَ لا يوُصَفُ الاّ بِما وَصَفَ بِهِ نَفْسَهُ وَانَّي يُوصَفُ الَّذِي تَعْجِزُ الْحَواسُّ انْ تُدْرِكَهُ وَالاوْهامُ انْ تَنْالَهُ وَالْخَطَراتُ انْ تَحُدَّهُ وَالابْصارُ عَنِ الاحاطَةِ بِهِ (تحف العقول ص482)
The one who thinks he is obliged to commit sin has attributed the responsibilty of his sin towards Allah & has accused Him of cruelity & excess upon His servants. (TUHFUL AQOOL , P 461)
قال علي النقي (ع) فَمَنْ زَعَم انَّه مُجْبَرٌ عَلَي اْلمَعاصِي فَقَدْ أحالَ بِذَنبِهِ عَلَي اللهِ وَقَدْ ظَلَّمَهُ في عُقُوبَتِهِ (تحف العقول ص461)
Allah has lands upon earth He loves it that he is prayed & supplicated in those lands & whosoever prays & supplicates over there He grants it. (The Hayer of Imam Hussain(A.S.) is one of those). (TUHFUL AQOOL , P 482)
قال علي النقي (ع) انَّ لِلهِ بِقاعاً يُحِبُ انْ يُدْعا فيها فَيَسْتَجيبَ لِمَنْ دَعاهُ وَالْحيرُ مِنْها (تحف العقول ص482)
Whenever a time comes that the justice overwhelms & over comes cruelity it is prohibited to form negative bad conjecture & opinion about anyone except when one knows it about him. And whenever a time comes that the cruelity & oppression over whelms the (qantum of) justice then one must not have good opinion about the beneficience of a person till such time he knows it (for sure). (AYAN U SHIA , VOL 2 , P 39 NEW EDITION)
قال علي النقي (ع) اذا كانَ زَمانٌ الْعَدْلُ فيهِ اغْلََبُ مِنَ الْجَوْرِ فَحَرامٌ ان يَظُنَّ احَدٌ بَاحَدٍ سُوءً حَتّي يَعْلَمَ ذلِكَ مِنْهُ وَ إذا كانَ زَمَانٌ الْجَورُ اَغْلَبُ فيهِ مِنَ الْعَدْلِ فَلَيْسَ لِاَحَدٍ أنْ يَظُنَّ بِاَحَدٍ خَيْراً ما لَم يَعْلَمْ ذلِكَ مِنْهُ (اعيان الشيعه ( الطبع الجديد) ج2ص39)
The person who meets death on the way towards seeking the right , & does not reach it , I s upon beneficience. And this is the word of Allah where in he says. ((و من يخرج من بيته مهاجرا الي الله و رسوله ... الايه))"The one who comes out of his house as a migrant towards Allah & His prophet then the death finds him (on that way) his reward is upon Allah." (TUHFUL AQOOL , P 472)
قال علي النقي (ع) ... فَمَنْ ماتَ عَلي طَلَبْ الَحَقِ وَ لَمْ يُدْرِكْ كَما لَهُ فَهُوَ عَلي خَيْرٍ وَ ذلِكَ قَوْلُهُ : وَمَن يَخْرُجْ مِنْ بَيْتِهِ مُهاجِراً الَي الله وَرَسُولِهِ .... الاية (تحف العقول ص472)
