Imam al-Baqir (AS) said, ‘The similitude of the one who covets this world is as the caterpillar: the more silk it spins around itself, the harder it makes its exit for itself, until it dies of grief.’
- Mizan al-Hikmah
Imam Hossein (A.S.)
The fact that people need you is one of the blessings of God upon you. Therefore, do not feel aggrieved by it.
Bihar al-Anwar, vol. 71, pg. 318
Amir al-Mu’minin (AS):
One day, things go your way, and another day, they go against you. When things go your way, do not become proud, and when they go against you, do not be sad. Both are tests for you.
I ask the Americans: The day you gave a green light to the Saudis to start the war on #Yemen, did you know what a quagmire you were getting the Saudis into? Now, they can neither end the war, nor continue it.
The Prophet (SAWA) said, ‘O Ali, do not be angry. If you are enraged, you should sit down and think of the Lord’s power over His servants.’
- Tuhaf Al-Uqoul
Imam Ali (as): When the human being dies, the people ask: “What did he leave behind (for inheritance)?”
But the angels ask: “What did he send forward (for the afterlife)?”
- Nahjul Balaghah, 1, 320
Imam #Ali (as) profound warning:
“Your past time has gone, and what remains is only hope. Therefore, consider your present time a precious opportunity for doing good deeds.”
📚 Ghurar Al-Hikam
The past is gone. The future is only a hope. What we truly possess is this moment; so fill it with goodness before it, too, becomes the past.
Imam Ali (AS), when a group of people praised him to his face, said, ‘O Allah, You know more about me than I myself do, and I know more about myself than they do. O Allah, make us better than what they think and forgive us that which they do not know.’
“What threatens the world is not weapons, bayonets, missiles, and the like.
What is driving our planet down the path of decline is moral deviation.”
— Imam Khomeini, April 3, 1982 #iran