Ramadan Fasting Qaza & Fidya & Kaffara
February 13, 2025
1. On Wisdom & Knowledge
📖 “Knowledge is better than wealth. Knowledge guards you, but you have to guard wealth.”
📌 Nahjul Balagha, Saying 147
2. On Patience
📖 “Patience is of two kinds: patience over what pains you, and patience against what you covet.”
📌 Nahjul Balagha, Saying 55
3. On Justice
📖 “The best way to punish an enemy is to do good to him.”
📌 Nahjul Balagha, Saying 11
4. On Character
📖 “A person is hidden under his tongue.”
📌 Nahjul Balagha, Saying 148
5. On Generosity
📖 “The wealth of a miser is as useless as a stone in the middle of a river, neither it benefits him nor anyone else.”
📌 Nahjul Balagha, Saying 123
6. On Gratitude
📖 “One who is not thankful for small blessings will not be thankful for big ones.”
📌 Nahjul Balagha, Saying 162
7. On Friendship
📖 “The worst friend is he who is only with you when you are wealthy and leaves you when you are poor.”
📌 Nahjul Balagha, Saying 217
8. On Faith
📖 “Faith stands on four pillars: Patience, Conviction, Justice, and Jihad (struggle in the way of truth).”
📌 Nahjul Balagha, Saying 31
9. On Silence
📖 “When wisdom reaches perfection, words become few.”
📌 Nahjul Balagha, Saying 349
10. On Arrogance
📖 “Pride prevents a man from seeking knowledge.”
📌 Nahjul Balagha, Saying 263
11. On Envy
📖 “Envy eats away faith just as fire consumes wood.”
📌 Nahjul Balagha, Saying 38
12. On Time
📖 “Time wears out bodies, renews hopes, brings death closer, and takes away desires.”
📌 Nahjul Balagha, Saying 114
13. On Hard Work
📖 “Do not be a slave to others when Allah has created you free.”
📌 Nahjul Balagha, Saying 426
14. On Forgiveness
📖 “The best revenge is to forgive.”
📌 Nahjul Balagha, Saying 201
15. On Hypocrisy
📖 “The tongue of a wise man is behind his heart, and the heart of a fool is behind his tongue.”
📌 Nahjul Balagha, Saying 40
16. On Leadership
📖 “He who is greedy is disgraced; he who discloses his hardship is humiliated; he who has no control over his tongue often gets into trouble.”
📌 Nahjul Balagha, Saying 56
17. On Death
📖 “O People! You are moving fast with the hope that never ends, while death is chasing you.”
📌 Nahjul Balagha, Sermon 28
18. On Charity
📖 “Blessings are connected with gratitude, and gratitude is connected with more giving. The two are tied together, and will never separate.”
📌 Nahjul Balagha, Saying 138
19. On Intelligence
📖 “A fool’s mind is at the mercy of his tongue, while a wise man’s tongue is controlled by his mind.”
📌 Nahjul Balagha, Saying 40
20. On Worldly Desires
📖 “This world is like a snake, soft to touch but full of venom.”
📌 Nahjul Balagha, Sermon 112
