Imam Ali Quotes

“Get to know the right, then you would know the people of right. Right Is not measured by its men, but men are measured by their right.”
― Ali Bin Abi Thalib

“O Alaah, i haven't worshiped you because of lusting of heaven or fearing of hill. I've worshiped you because you deserve to be worshiped.”
― Ali Bin Abi Thalib

“Love is an illness which doesn't have good nor recompense.”
― Ali Bin Abi Thalib

“Justice is better than courage as if everyone is fair to others, then there will be no need for courage.”
― Imam Ali

“Words have power, which is why Imam Ali says, “Speak only when your words are more beautiful than the silence.” After all, everything in existence sprouted from the vibration of the divinely uttered word “Be! And it is” (36:82). So remember, your tongue is like a knife; it can either kill like the sword of a samurai or save like the scalpel of a surgeon.”
― A. Helwa, Secrets of Divine Love: A Spiritual Journey into the Heart of Islam

“The most complete gift of God is a life based on knowledge.”
― Imam Ali Ibn Abu Talib

“The ignorant man does not understand the learned for he has never been learned himself.”
― Imam Ali (derived from Du'a Kumayl)

“اطلبوا الخير من بطون شبعت ثم جاعت ولاتطلبوا الخير من بطون جاعت ثم شبعت.”
― علي بن ابي طالب

“It is said by some Sûfîs that there is another great secret regarding Fatima. These Sûfîs say that she was a Prophet from the time of her father's death until the time of her death. After the Prophet's death, Fatima lived seventy-five days. During this time the Archangel Gabriel came to her and consoled her by telling her what her father was doing in the spiritual worlds, what his status was, and what would come about in the Islamic community after her death. Imam 'Ali wrote down what Fatima dictated to him. Her words were collected into what is known as the Mushaf.”
― Laurence Galian, Jesus, Muhammad and the Goddess

“وَإِنَّمَا سُمِّيَتِ الشُّبْهَةُ شُبْهَةً لاَِنَّهَا تُشْبِهُ الْـحَقَّ، فَأَمَّا أَوْلِيَاءُ اللهِ فَضِيَاؤُهُمْ فِيهَا الْيَقِينُ، وَدَلِيلُهُمْ سَمْتُ الْـهُدَى، وَأَمَّا أَعْدَاءُ اللهِ فَدُعَاؤُهُمُ الضَّلالُ، وَدَلِيلُهُمُ الْعَمْى، فَمَا يَنْجُو مِنَ المَوْتِ مَنْ خَافَهُ، وَلا يُعْطَى الْبَقَاءَ مَنْ أَحَبَّهُ.”
― الأمام علي بن ابي طالب عليه السلام

“Silence is the best reply to a fool.”
― Imam Ali a.s

“Islamic Tasawwuf traditionally has its origin in the Prophet Muhammad (Peace be upon him) and Imam Ali ('Alaihi Assalam) with the Forty Companions. The forerunners of Islamic Tasawwuf are the Ahlul Bayt, the family of the Prophet Muhammad (Peace be upon him), and the 'insan kamils,' the perfect human beings, who by following this road have held a light to our world and to humanity.”
― Laurence Galian, The Sun at Midnight: The Revealed Mysteries of the Ahlul Bayt Sufis

“A religion which cannot benefit a person before death cannot benefit him after death either”
― Ruhool Ahmad Kawa, The silence of 25 Years

“The Silence of 25 Years is a book that will tell you The Method to understand Imam Ali”
― Ruhool Ahmad Kawa, The silence of 25 Years