Portal:Shia Islam/Selected quote

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"Books are the gardens of the scholars."

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  • Ghorar al-hikam va Doraro al-kilam

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"If people realize the value of science and knowledge, they will sacrifice themselves for earning it."

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  • Majlisi, Bihārul Anwār, vol.1, p. 183..

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"Man is not worshipful unless he is clement."

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  • Muhammad Kulayni, Usūl al-Kāfī, vol.2, p. 113

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

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"A hopeful sinner is closer to the mercy of Allah than a hopeless worshipper."
Mohammad

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  • Mizan al-hikma, Volume 10, Page 504, Tradition 7109.

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"A person shall arrive on the Day of Judgement and shall be in possession of good deeds in the measure of vastly accumulated clouds or towering mountains. (Witnessing them) he shall ask: ‘Oh My Lord! How can these be for me when I have not performed them?’ God shall reply: ‘This is your knowledge that you had taught and conveyed to the people, and which was acted upon after you had died.’"
Mohammad

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  • Biharul Anwar, Volume 2, Page 18.

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"Thought, meditation and pondering is the life of clear sighted people."

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  • Majlisi, Bihārul Anwār, vol.72, p. 115.

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"Both the abodes (this world and the Hereafter) are grasped by the intellect, and whoever is deprived of the intellect is deprived of them both."

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  • Al-Irbili, Kashf al-Ghamma, vol.3, p. 197.

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"The heart that is empty of doubt is the cleanest of hearts."

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  • Majlisi, Bihārul Anwār, vol.78, p. 109.

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

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  • Biharul Anwar, Vol. 45, P. 51