• The Compiler of Nahjul Balagha, Syed al Radi

    • Life and Lineage

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  • 1. Praise belongs to God, Whose Glory lies beyond ...

  • 2. I praise Him, seeking the completion of His bounty...

  • 3. By God, so and so (Ibn Abi Quhafah)....

  • 4. Through us you were guided ...

  • 5. O people, tear the waves of ...

  • 6. By God, I shall not be like the badger that ...

  • 7. They have taken Satan to be the sovereign ...

  • 8. He claims that he swore allegiance ...

  • 9. They thundered and ...

  • 10. Lo, Satan has brought together ...

  • 11. Mountains shift, yet you shouldn't ...

  • 12. Does your brother love us? ...

  • 13. You are a woman's army ...

  • 14. Your land is close to the sea ...

  • 15. By God, even if I had found that ...

  • 16. My word is the guarantee of my promise ...

  • 17. The most detestable of creatures ...

  • 18. When a case is put before ...

  • 19. What know ye what is against me ... ?

  • 20. Indeed, if you could see ...

  • 21. Your ultimate goal is before you ...

  • 22. Lo, Satan has begun encouraging ...

  • 23. Verily, the command descends ...

  • 24. By my life, ...

  • 25. It is only Kufah ...

  • 26. Verily, God sent Muhammad (S) ...

  • 27. Indeed, jihad is one of the doors of Paradise ...

  • 28. Surely, the world has turned its back ...

  • 29. O people, who are together with their bodies, but ...

  • 30. If I had ordered it, ...

  • 31. Don't meet Talhah ...

  • 32. O people, we have been born in ...

  • 33. Verily, God sent Muhammad (S) ...

  • 34. Woe to you! I am tired of rebuking you ...

  • 35. Praise belongs to God, even though ...

  • 36. I warn you ...

  • 37. I took up the task ...

  • 38. Doubt is called doubt because ...

  • 39. I am faced with such who do not obey ...

  • 40. A true statement to which a false meaning ...

  • 41. O people, loyalty and truthfulness are twins ...

  • 42. O people, what I fear most for you ...

  • 43. My preparations for war with the Syrians ...

  • 44. May God disgrace Masqalah, ...

  • 45. Praise belongs to God, Whose mercy ...

  • 46. My God, I seek Thy refuge ...

  • 47. 0 Kufah! It is as if I see you ...

  • 48. Praise belongs to God when night ...

  • 49. Praise belongs to God, Who knows the inside ...

  • 50. Verily, the source of misguidance lies in ...

  • 51. They ask you to feed them ...

  • 52. Lo, the world has ...

  • 53. Rush towards me ...

  • 54. As to your statement that ...

  • 55. In the company of the Prophet (S)

  • 56. Soon after me, a man ...

  • 57. The sand-storms struck you ...

  • 58. The place they shall fall ...

  • 59. Certainly not. By God, they are yet sperm ...

  • 60. Do not fight the Khawarij after me ...

  • 61. There is a protective shield of God ...

  • 62. Lo, this world is a place ...

  • 63. Fear God, O servants of God! ...

  • 64. Praise belongs to God ...

  • 65. O Muslims! ...

  • 66. Why didn't you argue ...

  • 67. I had intended to make Hashim ...

  • 68. How long shall I accord to you the consideration ...

  • 69. I fell asleep as I sat ...

  • 70. O people of Iraq ...

  • 71. My God, Who art the spreader ...

  • 72. Didn't he give me his allegiance after ...

  • 73. You know for certain that ...

  • 74. Didn't the knowledge of Banu Umayyah ...

  • 75. May God have mercy upon him who ...

  • 76. The Banu Umayyah ...

  • 77. My God, forgive me ...

  • 78. Do you claim that ...

  • 79. O people, women are ...

  • 80. O people, zuhd lies in ...

  • 81. How should I describe this house ...

  • 82. Praise belongs to God, Who is high ...

  • 83. How strange of the son of al-Nabighah ...

  • 84. I bear witness that there is no god except Allah ...

  • 85. He knows the secrets ...

  • 86. O servants of God, the most beloved of God's ...

  • 87. God didn't crush any tyrant before ...

  • 88. He sent him after a period ...

  • 89. Praise belongs to God, Who is ...

  • 90. Praise belongs to God, Who is not enriched by ...

  • 91. Leave me and find someone else ...

  • 92. I have pulled out the eyes of ...

  • 93. Blessed is God, who is not attained by ...

  • 94. He sent him when the people ...

  • 95. Praise belongs to God, Who is the First ...

  • 96. If He gives respite to the oppressor ...

  • 97. By God, they will continue ...

  • 98. We praise Him ...

  • 99. Praise be to God, who spreads ...

  • 100. Praise be to God, the First ...

  • 101. On that day God will collect ...

  • 102. O people, look at the world ...

  • 103. God Almighty sent Muhammad ...

  • 104. Until God sent Muhammad ...

  • 105. Praise belongs to God, Who laid down ...

  • 106. I have seen ...

  • 107. Praise belongs to God, Who is Manifest ...

  • 108. Everything humbles itself ...

  • 109. The best means by which ...

  • 110. I warn you ...

  • 111. Do you feel it when he enters ...

  • 112. I warn you ...

  • 113. Praise belongs to God, Who ...

  • 114. My God, our hands have ...

  • 115. He sent him as a caller unto ...

  • 116. You spent no wealth ...

  • 117. You are supporters of the truth ...

  • 118. What is wrong with you? ...

  • 119. By God, I have known ...

  • 120. This is the punishment ...

  • 121. Were all of you with us ...

  • 122. Whoever among you ...

  • 123. Place the armoured at the fore ...

  • 124. We did not make persons arbiters ...

  • 125. Do you ask me to seek ...

  • 126. If you refuse to stop claiming ...

  • 127. O Ahnaf, ...

  • 128. O servants of God, ...

  • 129. O Abu Dharr, ...

  • 130. O those of differing minds ...

  • 131. We praise Him for whatever ...

  • 132. The world and the Hereafter have ...

  • 133. God has taken upon Himself ...

  • 134. O son of the accursed ...

  • 135. Your allegiance ...

  • 136. By God, they did not ...

  • 137. He will made desires conform to ...

  • 138. No one overtook me ...

  • 139. Verily, it befits those who are saved ...

  • 140. O people, one who knows his brother ...

  • 141. One who lays goodness where it is not ...

  • 142. Lo, the earth which bears you ...

  • 143. God sent His apostles ...

  • 144. O people, you are in this world ...

  • 145. The victory in this matter ...

  • 146. God sent Muhammad (S) ...

  • 147. Each of the two ...

  • 148. O people, every man shall meet ...

  • 149. They took to the right and to the left ...

  • 150. I praise God and seek His help ...

  • 151. Praise is God's, Who proves ...

  • 152. He has been allowed a respite ...

  • 153. The enlightened heart ...

  • 154. Praise belongs to God, Whom epithets ...

  • 155. Whoever can ...

  • 156. Praise belongs to God, Who has made ...

  • 157. He sent him at a time ...

  • 158. I was a goodly neighbour unto you ...

  • 159. His command is judicious and wise ...

  • 160. He sent him with a brilliant light ...

  • 161. O brother of Banu Asad, ...

  • 162. Praise belongs to God, the Creator ...

  • 163. The people are behind me ...

  • 164. He originated them ...

  • 165. The young among you ...

  • 166. God Almighty sent down the Book ...

  • 167. O brothers, I am not ignorant of ...

  • 168. Verily, God sent the Prophet ...

  • 169. Do you see, those who have sent you ...

  • 170. O God, the Lord of the roof raised high ...

  • 171. Praise belongs to God, from Whom one heaven ...

  • 172. The trustee of His revelations, ...

  • 173. As for me, I am not intimidated by war ...

  • 174. O negligent people, ...

  • 175. Draw benefit from God's ...

  • 176. You have all agreed to select ...

  • 177. An engagement does not ...

  • 178. Eyes perceive Him not, ...

  • 179. I praise God for what He has ordained ...

  • 180. Away with them ...

  • 181. Praise belongs to God, towards Whom ...

  • 182. Praise belongs to God, Who is known ...

  • 183. Keep silent. May God disgrace you ...

  • 184. Praise belongs to God Whom senses cannot perceive ...

  • 185. He who attributes to Him states ...

  • 186. May my father and my mother ...

  • 187. O people, I advise you to fear God ...

  • 188. One kind of faith is one which is fixed ...

  • 189. I praise Him in gratitude for His ...

  • 190. Praise belongs to God Who has ...

  • 191. Praise belongs to God Who has donned ...

  • 192. God Almighty created the creatures ...

  • 193. We praise Him for succouring ...

  • 194. Praise belongs to God, Who has made manifest ...

  • 195. He sent him (the Prophet) when there wasn't ...

  • 196. Those Companions of Muhammad (S) ...

  • 197. He knows the criest of the beasts in wilderness ...

  • 198. Commit yourselves to prayer ...

  • 199. By God, Mu`awiyah is not smarter than me ...

  • 200. O people, don't be averse to ...

  • 201. O Messenger of God, may peace be upon you ...

  • 202. O people, verily this world is a ...

  • 203. May God's mercy be upon you, procure provision ...

  • 204. Addressed to Talhah and al-Zubayr ...

  • 205. I dislike that you should be abusers ...

  • 206. Hold back this young man ...

  • 207. O people, matters between you and me ...

  • 208. What will you do with this spacious house ...

  • 209. Verily, that which is in the people's hands ...

  • 210. It was through the sway of His power ...

  • 211. My God, whoever of Thy servants ...

  • 212. Praise belongs to God, Who is above ...

  • 213. I bear witness that He is First ...

  • 214. Praise belongs to God, Who ...

  • 215. God Almighty has given me a right ...

  • 216. My God, I beseech Thee to avenge Quraysh ...

  • 217. Abu Muhammad lies a stranger ...

  • 218. He revived his intellect ...

  • 219. How far-fetched are his hopes ...

  • 220. Indeed, God Almighty has made His remembrance ...

  • 221. The addressee is without any excuse ...

  • 222. By God, if I were to spend a night on the thorns

  • 223. My God, save my face ...

  • 224. It is a house surrounded by tribulations ...

  • 225. My God, Thou art the friendliest of the friendly ...

  • 226. So and so did good for God's sake ...

  • 227. You drew my hand and I held it back ...

  • 228. Verily, God-fearing is the key ...

  • 229. He discharged whatever he was commanded to do ...

  • 230. The property is neither mine nor yours ...

  • 231. Beware that the tongue is a part ...

  • 232. The difference between them ...

  • 233. My father and my mother ...

  • 234. I began following ...

  • 235. Act while there is respite ...

  • 236. About the two arbitrators ...

  • 237. They are life for knowledge ...

  • 238. O lbn-`Abbas ...

  • 239. God requires you to be grateful ...