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

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

• "To forbid generosity is mistrust in Allah.."
• "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."
• "To forbid generosity is mistrust in Allah."
• "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."
• "The richest riche is he who is not captive for greed."
• "Nothing is better than silence, no enemy is more harmful than ignorance, and no illness is more dangerous than telling lies."
• "Three (things) cause affection: Religion, modesty, and generosity … three (things) cause hatred: hypocrisy, self-admiration, and oppression."
• "If the ill- natured (person) knows that he tortures himself, he will be tolerant in his manners."
• "Verily, envy eats belief as fire eats wood."
• "(Religious) scholars are the trustees of prophets unless they come to the doors of supreme rulers."
• "Whoever attacks a matter without knowledge cuts off his own nose."
• "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."