منة

Imam Ali (AS) said, When the one who renounces worldly pleasures seeks people, flee from him.

“Every person has a special angel and an evil one. When you get happy, the angel approaches you, and when you get sad, the evil one will approach you. This is the interpretation of the Almighty God's statement: “The Evil One threatens you with poverty and bids you to conduct unseemly. God promiseth you His forgiveness and bounties. And God careth for all and He knoweth all things.” [The Holy Quran: Baqara 2:268]

Imam Ali (AS) said, I will be with the Prophet of Allah, the blessings of Allah be upon him, and with me will be my progeny at the pond (so act upon our words and emulate our actions as we will vie at the pond [of Kawthar]), and we will verily drive away our enemies from it and let our close friends drink from it, and whoever takes a drink from it will never be thirsty after that again.

The hindrance from him on her way is removed, she has no mahr (dower) and no waiting period because of him.’”

“Abu ‘Abd Allah (a.s.), has said, ‘Whatever of a prey is caught in the snare is dead and whatever of the rest of the body you find alive, slaughter it properly; then you can use it for food.’”

In condemnation of treason

As-Sayyid ar-Raḍī says: This is one of the wonderful interpretations related from him.

Imam Ali (AS) said, Giving up sin is difficult, but giving up Paradise is [going to be] more difficult.

Imam Ali (AS) said, The abominable has become so rampant that the shame one feels from it has reduced.

Imam Ali (AS) said, Do not make any dealings with one from whom you have no power to demand justice.

Imam Ali (AS) said, Compare some opinions with others, from this the right course of action will come to light.

Imam Ali (AS) said, 'Use some opinions to attack other opinions and the valid one will emerge thereof.

Imam Ali (AS) said, One who reciprocates a good turn with a better one has [appropriately] repaid it.

Imam Ali (AS) said, Never regard the abundance of what you have given to be much, for you are [in possession of] even more than that.

Imam Ali (AS) said, One who takes lesson from the vicissitudes of this world, his desires lessen.

Imam Ali (AS) said, The most oppressive of people is the one who considers his tyranny to be justice on his part.

I had sent towards him a large army of Muslims. When he came to know of it he fled away and retreated repenting. They met him on the way when the sun was about to set. They grappled for a while like nothing. It was about an hour and then he rescued himself half-dead as he had almost been taken by the neck and only the last breath had remained in him. In this way, he escaped in a panic.

Hadith.5323 - Samaah asked Abu Abdullah (as) about a man who struck his pregnant daughter, causing her to miscarry a stillborn child. The woman's husband sought legal action against her father. The woman said to her husband, "If this fetus has a diyyah (blood money), and I am entitled to an inheritance from it, then I give my share of the inheritance to my father." Imam (as) responded: "It is permissible for her father to receive what she has gifted to him."

“Once a man said to ‘Abd Allah (a.s.), ‘I pray to Allah to keep you well, we have a neighbor who is a butcher and he brings Jews who slaughter for him so that Jews can buy from him.’ He (the Imam) said, ‘Do not use for food what he sells and do not buy from him.’”

I asked Abu Abdillah (as) about a man who bought an orchard that contained palm trees and other trees, some of which had already borne fruit and others had not yet borne fruit. Imam (as) said: "There is no harm in it if there are trees that have already borne fruit."