Sermons from Nahjul Balagha

                If you could see that has been seen by those of you who have died, you would be puzzled and troubled. Then you would have listened and obeyed; but what they have seen is yet curtained off from you. Shortly, the curtain would be thrown off. You have been shown, provided you see and […]

Amír al-mu’minín was delivering a lecture from the pulpit of (the mosque of) Kúfah  when al-Ash`ath ibn Qays (1) objected and said, “O’ Amír al-mu’minín this thing is not in your favour but against you.” (2) Amír al-mu’minín looked at him with anger and said:                 How do you know what is for me and

                By Alláh, even if I had found that by such money women have been married or slave-maids have been purchased I would have resumed it  because there is wide scope in dispensation of justice, and he who finds it hard to act justly should find it harder to deal with injustice. Back to list

al-mu’minín sent `Abdulláh ibn `Abbás to az-Zubayr ibn al-`Awwám with the purpose that he should advise him back to obedience, he said to him on that occasion:                 Do not meet Talhah (ibn `Ubaydilláh). If you meet him you will find him like an unruly bull whose horns are turned towards its ears. He rides

                Among(1) all the people the most detested before Alláh are two persons. One is he who is devoted to his self. So he is deviated from the true path and loves speaking about (foul) innovations and inviting towards wrong path. He is therefore a nuisance for those who are enamoured of him, is himself

                Your earth is close to the sea and away from the sky. Your wits have become light and your minds are full of folly. You are the aim of the archer, a morsel for the eater and an easy prey for the hunter. SHARE THIS PAGE:

                You were the army of a woman and in the command of a quadruped. When it grumbled you responded, and when it was wounded (hamstrung) you fled away. Your character is low and your pledge is broken. Your faith is hypocrisy. Your water is brackish. He who stays with you is laden with sins

                The responsibility for what I say is guaranteed and I am answerable for it. He to whom experiences have clearly shown the past exemplary punishments (given by Alláh to peoples) is prevented by piety from falling into doubts. You should know that the same troubles have returned to you which existed when the Prophet

They (1) thunder like clouds and shone like lightning but despite both these things they exhibited cowardice, while we do not thunder till we  pounce upon the foe nor do we show flow (of words) until we have not virtually rained. (1).          About the people of Jamal (i.e. the enemy in the battle of Jamal)

                Beware! Satan (1) has collected his group and assembled his horse-men and foot-soldiers. Surely, with me is my sagacity. I have neither deceived myself nor ever been deceived. By Alláh I shall fill to the brim for them a cistern from which I alone would draw water. They can neither turn away from it