Send a Light for Yourself: “The goodness which you send ahead for your own self [to benefit from after your death] will be stored [and will be waiting for you], while that which you defer in sending will be a benefit for everyone other than yourself [while you will have to bear the responsibility of that which you left behind].”

A Different Explanation of ‘Taqwa’: “You should fear Allah about yourself and not allow Satan to lead you. Turn your face towards the next world because that is our path and your path, and fear that Allah may not entangle you in any sudden infliction which may destroy the root as well as cut away the branches.”

The Necessity to Learn and Teach Others: “Allah has not taken a pledge from the unenlightened that they should [go forth to] learn until He took an oath from the people of knowledge to go forth to teach.”

As Long as One’s Speech is not Remedid: “A servant’s faith will not be rectified [and unchangeable] until he rectifies his heart; and the heart of the servant will not be rectified until his tongue is corrected.”

The Consequences of Having Unattainable Desires: “Individuals who have the longest of unattainable desires [in the transient world] are the same people who have the worst of actions.”

Five Commandments for a Better Life: “O Kumayl [ibne Ziyad]! Always speak the truth; keep close friendship with those who are God-conscious; distance yourself from the open sinners; be careful with the hypocrites; and do not befriend the treacherous ones.”

The Best Path in Life: “O’ Kumayl [ibne Ziyad]! Indeed the most beloved of things which a servant can employ to attain true servitude to Allah, after affirming His oneness and the truthfulness of His close friends are [the following three things]: chastity, tolerance and clemency.”

The Best of Spiritual Provisions and Supplies: “There is no [true] goodness in any provisions from the temporal world except for the provision of God-Consciousness [taqwa].”

The Best Friend: “A person’s best friend is [for him to possess] good manners” and also he has said: “How many times is it seen that a respectable person is humiliated due to his [bad] morals; and a debased person is honored due to his [virtuous] morals.”

The Best of Actions: “In one sitting, he [Imam Ali] taught his companions four-hundred subjects which would be of benefit to their next world and this world … [and one of the topics which he taught them was] actively await the succor and do not be despondent from the mercy of God as indeed the best of actions with Allah, the Noble and Grand, is to actively await the succor.”