Talk:Ja'far al-Sadiq

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  • Allah surely hates the oppressive wealthy man.
  • Certainly, knowledge is a lock and its key is the question.
  • He who treats people kindly will be accepted as arbiter.
  • Ignorance is in three (things): Arrogance, the intensity of dispute, and the ignorance about God.
  • Intellect is the guide of the believer.
  • Life is to rent a house and buy bread.
  • Some manners of the ignorant are: the answer before he hears, the opposition before he understands, and the judgement with what he does not know.
  • The perfection of intellect is in three (things): humbleness for God, good certainty, and silence except for good.
  • When the believer becomes angry, his anger should not take him out of the truth; and when he becomes satisfied, his satisfaction should not bring him into falsehood.
  • Whoever attacks a matter without knowledge cuts off his own nose.

From English wikipedia[edit]

The following sentences are transferred from English Wikipedia, Ja'far al-Sadiq .

  • "To forbid generosity is mistrust in Allah.."[1]
  • "Three (things) with which Allah does not increase the Muslim person but glory: To forgive him who wrongs him; to give him who deprives him, to visit him who abandons him."[1]
  • "To forbid generosity is mistrust in Allah."[1]
  • "Three (things) with which Allah does not increase the Muslim person but glory: To forgive him who wrongs him; to give him who deprives him, to visit him who abandons him."[1]
  • "The richest riche is he who is not captive for greed."[1]
  • "Nothing is better than silence, no enemy is more harmful than ignorance, and no illness is more dangerous than telling lies."[1]
  • "Three (things) cause affection: Religion, modesty, and generosity … three (things) cause hatred: hypocrisy, self-admiration, and oppression."[1]
  • "If the ill- natured (person) knows that he tortures himself, he will be tolerant in his manners."[1]
  • "Verily, envy eats belief as fire eats wood."[1]
  • "(Religious) scholars are the trustees of prophets unless they come to the doors of supreme rulers."[1]
  • "Whoever attacks a matter without knowledge cuts off his own nose."[1]
  • "Whomsoever God removes from the degradation of sin to the exaltation of piety, he it is whom God makes rich without property and noble without the help of family."[2]
  1. a b c d e f g h i j k al-Husayn al-Muzaffar, Mohammed (1998). Imam Al-Sadiq. Translated by Jasim al-Rasheed. Qum: Ansariyan Publications. pp. 165–166, 230–247. ISBN 964-438-011-8. 
  2. Donaldson, Dwight M. (1933). The Shi'ite Religion: A History of Islam in Persia and Irak. BURLEIGH PRESS.