Thought for the day archive May. Topic: random wisdom

May 1st: Imam Ali (as): "If you expect someone to do more than he is able to do, then expect him to fail you by as much as you have exceeded his capacity"

May 2nd: Imam Hasan Al Askari : “Whoever does good deeds for the sake of the Hereafter, Allah will amend for him his affairs in this world.”

May 3rd: Prophet Muhammed (pbuh) : "The worst one of the people before Allah is the scholar who does not put his knowledge into practice and does not benefit from it"

May 4th: Imam Ali (as): "He who is abandoned by near ones is dear to remote ones"

May 5th:Imam Ja'far as sadiq (as) : "He who devotes his heart to this world will be subjected to three conditions: endless grief, unquenchable desire, and futile hope."

May 6th:Imam Mehdi (as):"Nothing is like praying, in rubbing the Satan's nose with earth. So pray and rub the Satan's nose with earth."

May 7th:Imam Ali (as): "Be ware of misers and evil,there are the people who do not fear Allah"

May 8th:Imam Hasan Al-Askari (as): "Generosity has a limit, which when crossed becomes extravagance; caution has a limit which when crossed becomes cowardice; thriftiness has a limit, which when crossed becomes miserliness; courage has a limit, which when crossed becomes fool-hardiness. Let this moral lesson suffice: refrain from doing anything which you would disapprove of if done by someone else."

May 16th:Imam Hasan Al-Mujtaba (as) :"If you fail to obtain something of worldly benefit, take it as if the thought of it had never crossed your mind at all."

May17th: Imam Hasan (as) :" Associate with and treat the people in way as you like to get associated and treated by them".

May 18th:Imam Hasan (as) : "When the desirable and commendable services damage and harm the obligatory services, abandon them"

May 19th:Imam raza (as) :"Giving alms is the most valuable savings"

May 20th:Imam Hasan (as) :"It is love which brings closer those who are remote by ancestry, and it is (the absence of) love which causes dissociation between those who are related by ancestry."

May21st:Imam Muhammad Taqi (as) :" "Toba" depends upon four things: sincere regrets, verbal "istighfar", deeds and determination never to repeat the sin"

May 22nd: Imam Hasan (as) : "The greatest forgiveness and pardon of Allah comes when the sinner is not able to make a pretext for his wrong doing."

May 23rd:Imam Hasan (as): "I wonder about the person who contemplates about his nutrition but he does not consider (the food of) his intellect. Thus, he avoids of what hurts him in his stomach but he lets his mind to be filled with what destroys him"


May 24th: Imam Ali (a.s) : "The doer of good is better than the good itself, and the doer of evil is worse than the evil itself"

May 25th: Imam ali (as) : " Be generous but not extravagant; be thrifty but not miserly."

May 26th: Imam Hussain (as):"He who tries to achieve something through acting disobediently to Allah will miss what he expects and fall in what he fears"

May 27th: Imam Hussain (as) :"The true stingy is that who refrains from greeting."

May 28th: Imam Ali (as) :" Do not appreciate one's affection before you enrage him three times."

May 29th: Imam Ali (as) : "Debt is grief at night and humility in day"

May 30th: Imam Ali (as) : "If your worldly demands are attainable, you should check your religion"

May 31st: Imam Ali (as) : "The innumerable fools have made the learned very scarce"