The Commander of the Faithful (AS) said: Do good to the evildoer, and you will restrain him. (Nathr al-La'ali, vol. 1, p. 52)
The Commander of the Faithful (AS) said: Do good to the wrongdoer, so that you may put a stop to his wrongdoing.
The Commander of the Faithful (AS) said: Paying one's debt is part of religion. (Nathr al-La'ali, vol. 1, p. 52)
The Commander of the Faithful (AS) said: Paying a debt is part of religiousness.
The Commander of the Faithful (AS) said: The early morning of Saturday and of Thursday is a blessing. (Nathr al-La'ali, vol. 1, p. 54)
The Commander of the Faithful (AS) said: The mornings of Saturday and Thursday are a source of blessing.
The Commander of the Faithful (AS) said: Delaying the return of an ill deed is a mark of good fortune. (Nathr al-La'ali, vol. 1, p. 56)
The Commander of the Faithful (AS) said: To answer an ill deed late and with deliberation is a sign of a man's good fortune.
The Commander of the Faithful (AS) said: Retrieve from your life what you missed in its beginning. (Nathr al-La'ali, vol. 1, p. 56)
The Commander of the Faithful (AS) said: Make up for what you lost in the early years of your life through immaturity and weakness of faith.
The Commander of the Faithful (AS) said: The crowding of hands upon food is a blessing. (Nathr al-La'ali, vol. 1, p. 56)
The Commander of the Faithful (AS) said: Many hands at the table are a source of blessing.
The Commander of the Faithful (AS) said: The stability of dominion lies in justice. (Nathr al-La'ali, vol. 1, p. 58)
The Commander of the Faithful (AS) said: The endurance of government rests on justice.
The Commander of the Faithful (AS) said: Give generously of much, and be content with little. (Nathr al-La'ali, vol. 1, p. 60)
The Commander of the Faithful (AS) said: Give away much, and content yourself with little.
The Commander of the Faithful (AS) said: A good companion is a prize. (Nathr al-La'ali, vol. 1, p. 60)
The Commander of the Faithful (AS) said: A good companion is a boon.
The Commander of the Faithful (AS) said: The effort of the one who has little is much. (Nathr al-La'ali, vol. 1, p. 60)
The Commander of the Faithful (AS) said: The small gift of the poor man counts as much.
The Commander of the Faithful (AS) said: The excellence of speech lies in brevity. (Nathr al-La'ali, vol. 1, p. 60)
The Commander of the Faithful (AS) said: The goodness of speech lies in its brevity.
The Commander of the Faithful (AS) said: The parade of falsehood lasts an hour, and the parade of truth lasts until the Hour. (Nathr al-La'ali, vol. 1, p. 60)
The Commander of the Faithful (AS) said: Falsehood's turn lasts but an hour, while truth's turn endures until the Resurrection.
The Commander of the Faithful (AS) said: A man's hot temper destroys him. (Nathr al-La'ali, vol. 1, p. 60)
The Commander of the Faithful (AS) said: Hot temper casts a person into ruin.
The Commander of the Faithful (AS) said: A man's craft is his treasure. (Nathr al-La'ali, vol. 1, p. 62)
The Commander of the Faithful (AS) said: A person's capital is his craft.
The Commander of the Faithful (AS) said: An empty heart is better than a full purse. (Nathr al-La'ali, vol. 1, p. 64)
The Commander of the Faithful (AS) said:
A heart empty of desire is better than a purse full of gold.
The Commander of the Faithful (AS) said: Treat the one who wrongs you with kindness, so as to put him to shame. (Nathr al-La'ali, vol. 1, p. 66)
The Commander of the Faithful (AS) said: Make the one who has wronged you ashamed before your kindness, so that he abandons his wrongdoing.
The Commander of the Faithful (AS) said: The cure for sorrows is seeing one's brothers. (Nathr al-La'ali, vol. 1, p.)
The Commander of the Faithful (AS) said: The remedy for sorrow is meeting one's friends.
The Commander of the Faithful (AS) said: The medicine of the heart is contentment with the divine decree. (Nathr al-La'ali, vol. 1, p. 66)
The Commander of the Faithful (AS) said: The cure of the heart, and the way to attain a sound heart, is contentment with God's decree.
The Commander of the Faithful (AS) said: Leave the rebellious one in his rebellion. (Nathr al-La'ali, vol. 1, p. 68)
The Commander of the Faithful (AS) said: Leave the insolent one to his insolence.
The Commander of the Faithful (AS) said: The one abased by poverty is honored with God. (Nathr al-La'ali, vol. 1, p. 68)
The Commander of the Faithful (AS) said: He who has been humbled by poverty is dear in God's sight.
The Commander of the Faithful (AS) said: Blaming a thing is itself a form of occupation with it. (Nathr al-La'ali, vol. 1, p. 68)
The Commander of the Faithful (AS) said: Criticizing things is, itself, a kind of preoccupation with them.
The Commander of the Faithful (AS) said: Tasting at the tables of sultans burns the lips. (Nathr al-La'ali, vol. 1, p. 68)
The Commander of the Faithful (AS) said: The food at rulers' tables scorches the lips.
The Commander of the Faithful (AS) said: Your provision seeks you out; so be at ease. (Nathr al-La'ali, vol. 1, p. 70)
The Commander of the Faithful (AS) said: Your sustenance comes seeking you of its own accord; so be at ease.
The Commander of the Faithful (AS) said: Relating hadith is an affiliation to the Messenger of God (PBUH). (Nathr al-La'ali, vol. 1, p. 70)
The Commander of the Faithful (AS) said: Transmitting hadith is a connection to the Messenger of God.
The Commander of the Faithful (AS) said: The trouble of the righteous is a mercy. (Nathr al-La'ali, vol. 1, p. 72)
The Commander of the Faithful (AS) said: The trouble caused by the righteous is a mercy.
The Commander of the Faithful (AS) said: Visit a man according to the measure of the honor he shows you. (Nathr al-La'ali, vol. 1, p. 72)
The Commander of the Faithful (AS) said: Meet with people according to the measure of the respect they hold for you.
The Commander of the Faithful (AS) said: The asceticism of the learned is a mercy, and the asceticism of the ignorant leads astray. (Nathr al-La'ali, vol. 1, p. 72)
The Commander of the Faithful (AS) said: The asceticism of a true scholar is a mercy for people, for they are drawn to him; but the asceticism of an unlearned man is a cause of people's misguidance.
The Commander of the Faithful (AS) said: The corners of the world are packed with afflictions. (Nathr al-La'ali, vol. 1, p. 72)
The Commander of the Faithful (AS) said: Every corner of the world is full of suffering.
The Commander of the Faithful (AS) said: Visiting the weak is part of humility. (Nathr al-La'ali, vol. 1, p. 72)
The Commander of the Faithful (AS) said: Visiting the weak is a sign of humility.
The Commander of the Faithful (AS) said: The intoxication of rule is more intoxicating than the intoxication of wine. (Nathr al-La'ali, vol. 1, p. 74)
The Commander of the Faithful (AS) said: Power brings on more drunkenness than wine.
The Commander of the Faithful (AS) said: The weapon of the weak is complaint. (Nathr al-La'ali, vol. 1, p. 74)
The Commander of the Faithful (AS) said: Complaining is a mark of weakness.
The Commander of the Faithful (AS) said: The miserliness of the rich is a punishment. (Nathr al-La'ali, vol. 1, p. 76)
The Commander of the Faithful (AS) said: If someone possesses wealth and does not spend it, he is being punished through his own miserliness.
The Commander of the Faithful (AS) said: A stingy rich man is poorer than a generous poor man. (Nathr al-La'ali, vol. 1, p. 76)
The Commander of the Faithful (AS) said: A miserly rich man is, in effect, poorer than a generous poor man.
The Commander of the Faithful (AS) said: The worst of people is he whom people fear. (Nathr al-La'ali, vol. 1, p. 76)
The Commander of the Faithful (AS) said: The worst person is the one whom people are afraid of.
The Commander of the Faithful (AS) said: The condition of intimacy is the abandonment of formality. (Nathr al-La'ali, vol. 1, p. 76)
The Commander of the Faithful (AS) said: Until formality between two people falls away, intimacy does not take shape.
The Commander of the Faithful (AS) said: A whiff of true knowledge is better than a great deal of works. (Nathr al-La'ali, vol. 1, p. 76)
The Commander of the Faithful (AS) said: A little true knowledge is better than a great many deeds.
The Commander of the Faithful (AS) said: Your patience brings forth victory. (Nathr al-La'ali, vol. 1, p. 78)
The Commander of the Faithful (AS) said: Patience, in the end, leads to victory.
The Commander of the Faithful (AS) said: A man's truthfulness is his salvation. (Nathr al-La'ali, vol. 1, p. 78)
The Commander of the Faithful (AS) said: A man's truthfulness, in the end, saves him.
The Commander of the Faithful (AS) said: The world is narrow for those who bear mutual hatred. (Nathr al-La'ali, vol. 1, p. 80)
The Commander of the Faithful (AS) said: The world is always cramped for the spiteful.
The Commander of the Faithful (AS) said: The inner heart of the free is the abode of lights. (Nathr al-La'ali, vol. 1, p. 80)
The Commander of the Faithful (AS) said: Free-spirited people gradually become luminous.
The Commander of the Faithful (AS) said: The light of the heart comes from eating what is lawful. (Nathr al-La'ali, vol. 1, p. 80)
The Commander of the Faithful (AS) said: Lawful sustenance illuminates the heart.
The Commander of the Faithful (AS) said: Fly together with your own kind. (Nathr al-La'ali, vol. 1, p. 82)
The Commander of the Faithful (AS) said: Associate with people of all sorts.
The Commander of the Faithful (AS) said: Blessed is he who has no dependents. (Nathr al-La'ali, vol. 1, p. 82)
The Commander of the Faithful (AS) said: Happy is the one who has no wife and dependents.
The Commander of the Faithful (AS) said: The shadow of the crooked is crooked. (Nathr al-La'ali, vol. 1, p. 84)
The Commander of the Faithful (AS) said: The shadow of a crooked thing is crooked.
The Commander of the Faithful (AS) said: The shadow of the sultan is like the shadow of the Merciful. (Nathr al-La'ali, vol. 1, p. 84)
The Commander of the Faithful (AS) said: The protection of the ruler is like the protection of God.
The Commander of the Faithful (AS) said: The shadow of the generous is spacious. (Nathr al-La'ali, vol. 1, p. 84)
The Commander of the Faithful (AS) said: The shadow of the generous man is wide.
The Commander of the Faithful (AS) said: A man's oppression fells him. (Nathr al-La'ali, vol. 1, p. 84)
The Commander of the Faithful (AS) said: Each person's oppression, in the end, brings him down.
The Commander of the Faithful (AS) said: The tyranny of kings is preferable to the forsaking of the subjects. (Nathr al-La'ali, vol. 1, p. 84)
The Commander of the Faithful (AS) said: That there be a government, even an oppressive one, is better than that there be no government and the people be left abased.
The Commander of the Faithful (AS) said: The darkness of oppression darkens faith. (Nathr al-La'ali, vol. 1, p. 84)
The Commander of the Faithful (AS) said: The darkness of oppression will one day take faith out of the oppressor's hands.
The Commander of the Faithful (AS) said: The difficulty of a matter is the prelude to its ease. (Nathr al-La'ali, vol. 1, p. 86)
The Commander of the Faithful (AS) said: The hardship of a task is the prelude to its ease.
The Commander of the Faithful (AS) said: The punishment of the oppressor is the swiftness of death. (Nathr al-La'ali, vol. 1, p. 86)
The Commander of the Faithful (AS) said: One of the consequences of oppression is an early death.
The Commander of the Faithful (AS) said: The perfection of generosity is apologizing along with it. (Nathr al-La'ali, vol. 1, p. 94)
The Commander of the Faithful (AS) said: The perfection of giving is that it be accompanied by an apology.
The Commander of the Faithful (AS) said: There is no rest for kings. (Nathr al-La'ali, vol. 1, p. 96)
The Commander of the Faithful (AS) said: Rulers have no peace of mind.
The Commander of the Faithful (AS) said: There is no fidelity in woman. (Nathr al-La'ali, vol. 1, p. 96)
The Commander of the Faithful (AS) said: Womankind has no constancy.
The Commander of the Faithful (AS) said: Soft speech is the fetter of hearts. (Nathr al-La'ali, vol. 1, p. 98)
The Commander of the Faithful (AS) said: Gentle speech tames hearts.
The Commander of the Faithful (AS) said: Keeping company with the young corrupts religion. (Nathr al-La'ali, vol. 1, p. 98)
The Commander of the Faithful (AS) said: Keeping company with the young and inexperienced corrupts a person's religion.
The Commander of the Faithful (AS) said: The assembly of knowledge is a garden of Paradise. (Nathr al-La'ali, vol. 1, p. 100)
The Commander of the Faithful (AS) said: A gathering of learning is a garden of Paradise.
The Commander of the Faithful (AS) said: The sweet watering place is crowded. (Nathr al-La'ali, vol. 1, p. 100)
The Commander of the Faithful (AS) said: The spring of sweet water is always crowded.
The Commander of the Faithful (AS) said: Whoever talks much, his weariness grows. (Nathr al-La'ali, vol. 1, p. 100)
The Commander of the Faithful (AS) said: Talking too much brings weariness and low spirits.
The Commander of the Faithful (AS) said: The believer's light comes from rising at night. (Nathr al-La'ali, vol. 1, p. 102)
The Commander of the Faithful (AS) said: Rising at night for worship makes the believer luminous.
The Commander of the Faithful (AS) said: Illuminate your heart with prayer in the darkness of the night. (Nathr al-La'ali, vol. 1, p. 102)
The Commander of the Faithful (AS) said: With prayer in the depth of night, make your heart luminous.
The Commander of the Faithful (AS) said: Your flight from your own self is more beneficial than your flight from a lion. (Nathr al-La'ali, vol. 1, p. 104)
The Commander of the Faithful (AS) said: Fear your own self, just as you fear a lion!
The Commander of the Faithful (AS) said: How far-fetched is sincere counsel from an enemy! (Nathr al-La'ali, vol. 1, p. 104)
The Commander of the Faithful (AS) said: Sincere counsel and goodwill are not to be expected from an enemy.
The Commander of the Faithful (AS) said: The burden of the charity of one who reproaches is greater than its reward. (Nathr al-La'ali, vol. 1, p. 106)
The Commander of the Faithful (AS) said: The sin of one who gives and afterwards holds it over the recipient is greater than his reward.
The Commander of the Faithful (AS) said: The guardian of a child is provided for. (Nathr al-La'ali, vol. 1, p. 106)
The Commander of the Faithful (AS) said: One who takes a child into his care is blessed with provision.
The Commander of the Faithful (AS) said: The fearful one finds security once he reaches what he feared. (Nathr al-La'ali, vol. 1, p. 108)
The Commander of the Faithful (AS) said: When a person comes face to face with the thing he fears, his fear disappears.
The Commander of the Faithful (AS) said: The affair of the patient one comes at last to what he desires. (Nathr al-La'ali, vol. 1, p. 108)
The Commander of the Faithful (AS) said: One who is patient will in the end attain his heart's desire.
The Commander of the Faithful (AS) said: Sustenance seeks you just as you seek it. (Nathr al-La'ali, vol. 1, p. 108)
The Commander of the Faithful (AS) said: You are in search of your sustenance, and the sustenance that has been written for you is in search of you.