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."