Pearl of Wisdom

when someone said to him, 'Verily you are greedy for the caliphate', he Leadership () replied, 'Rather, you are, by Allah, greedier and more remote, while I am more suited as well as more qualified for it. I have only demanded it as a right that is mine, while you are intervening between me and it, and you are keeping me away from it ... 'O Allah, I appeal to you for assistance against the Quraysh and all those who have aided them, for verily they have denied me the rights of kinship, lowered my high position, and have grouped together to challenge what is rightfully mine.?

Imam Ali ibn Abi Talib [as]
Nahj al-Balagha, Sermon 172

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Sermon 231 On Ja`dah ibn Hubayrah al-Makhzumi's (1) inability to deliver a sermon. About speaking the truth

Know that the tongue is a part of a man's body. If the man desists, speech will not co-operate with him and when he dilates, speech will not give him time to stop. Certainly, we are the masters of speaking. Its veins are fixed in us and its branches are hanging over us.

Know that - may Allah have mercy on you - you are living at a time when those who speak about right are few, when tongues are loath to utter the truth and those who stick to the right are humiliated. The people of this time are engaged in disobedience. Their youths are wicked, their old men are sinful, their learned men are hypocrites, and their speakers are sycophants. Their youngs do not respect their elders, and their rich men do not support the destitute.

 
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