Nahi anil Munkar [Forbidding what is wrong]
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Mufaz'zil ibn Zayd said that Imam Sadiq (a.s) told him: "O' Mufaz'zil! If one objects to an oppressive ruler and gets hurt by that ruler, he will not get any reward and will not be granted patience."
Mishkat ul-Anwar, Section 1 on Faith, Islam & Related Issues,Chapter 13 On Enjoining the Right and Forbidding the Wrong, Hadees 235 link
Abandon hues and cries, myriad (unnecessary) questions and destruction of wealth.
Nahj al Fasahah, Tradition No. 150, Page No. 28 link
Abstain from the (material) world, and beloved to God you will turn out to be, and connive at people's possessions and they'll come to love thee.
Nahj al Fasahah, Tradition No. 154, Page No. 29 link
After me, my people will fall to seditions as dark as nights, when man will be a believer in the morning and an unbeliever at night, when some people will barter their fate for unworthy wealth of the world.
Nahj al Fasahah, Tradition No. 169, Page No. 31 link
A group of you will always resort to begging till they(finally) meet God, with no flesh in their faces.
Nahj al Fasahah, Tradition No. 71, Page No. 18 link
Singing is that sin which has been promised a penalty of fire (Hell) by Allah.
Greater Sins Vol 2, The Sixteenth Greater Sin ,page 9 link
Singing is that Sin which has been promised the penalty of fire (Hell) by Allah" he (a.s.) had also recited the following verse of the Holy Quran:
Greater Sins Vol 2, The Sixteenth Greater Sin ,page 10; Surah Luqman 31:6 link
The Holy Prophet (s.a.w.s.) says:
Greater Sins Vol 2, The Sixteenth Greater Sin ,page 14 link
Keep away from the slips of an scholar, for it will cause him fall into the Fire.
Nahj al Fasahah, Tradition No. 1122, Page No. 161 link
"If one files a suit of law in the court of a ruler, even if the plaintiff is on the right, his claim would tantamount to his making Satan (false deity) his judge. And whatever he gets through this Judgement is Haraam even though it was from his rights."
Greater Sins Vol 1, Part 3, page 71; Surah Nisa 4:59 link
Constant contention (with others) suffices to make of you a sinner.
Nahj al Fasahah, Tradition No. 414, Page No. 62 link
Ensure me that you will act upon the following five, then I ensure you (of entrance) to Paradise: being just (to each other) as to the allocation of inheritance, treating people equitably, leaving fear in battles against enemies, keeping distance with treachery as to spoils and preventing the oppressors to do injustice to the oppressed.
Nahj al Fasahah, Tradition No. 531, Page No. 78 link
Every traitor will have a flag in the Resurrection by which to be recognized.
Nahj al Fasahah, Tradition No. 555, Page No. 82 link
Everybody will be a company to his own desires (in the Last Day) and thus, he who craves for disbelievers' (support) will be a company to them and his deeds will not avail him.
Nahj al Fasahah, Tradition No. 564, Page No. 83 link
Everything will finally decrease, but evil will constantly increase.
Nahj al Fasahah, Tradition No. 567, Page No. 83 link
Hearsay is no evidence.When the Almighty Lord bespoke to Moses of his followers' tendency towards the Golden Calf, he did not break the tablets, but when he saw their corruption in person, he cast the tablets down and broke them.
Nahj al Fasahah, Tradition No. 890, Page No. 126 link
An ignorant man oppresses his companions, is cruel to his subjects, shows vanity against great men and speaks foolishly.
Nahj al Fasahah, Tradition No. 208, Page No. 35 link
They ask you about intoxicants and the games of chance. Says: in both of them there is a great sin and means of profit for men, and their sin is greater than their profit
Greater Sins Vol 1, part 3, page 260; Surah Baqarah 2:219 link
A boaster has three traits: flattering in (people's) presence, backbiting in (people') absence, and clapping in people's calamities.
Nahj al Fasahah, Tradition No. 46, Page No. 15 link
A bondservant should be fed and dressed properly and be not burdened with intolerable tasks.
Nahj al Fasahah, Tradition No. 47, Page No. 15 link
A day will come to pass when people would belie the truthful and approve of the liars and would regard the honest treacherous and the treacherous honest, when men will bear witness without being required and will swear without being asked to, and when the most fortunate people would be ignoble, sons of the ignoble, who would be bereft of the belief in God and His prophet.
Nahj al Fasahah, Tradition No. 57, Page No. 16 link
For everything there is a (form of) harm leading to its ruin, and the harm to this religion are corrupt rulers.
Nahj al Fasahah, Tradition No. 631, Page No. 91 link
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