التَّواضُع

HUMBLENESS

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2– The Prophet (SAWA) said, ‘The best of people is a worshipper who humbles himself the more his rank increases.’
[Bihar al-Anwar, v. 77, p. 179, no. 10]

3– The Prophet (SAWA) said, ‘Blessed be he who humbles himself before Allah for no deficiency, and who degrades himself without poverty.’
[Tanbih al-Khawatir, v. 2, p. 66]

4– Imam Ali (AS) said, ‘There is no sufficiency like humbleness.’
[Nahj al-Balagha, Saying 113]

5– Imam Ali (AS) said, ‘The adornment of the noble is humbleness.’
[Bihar al-Anwar, v. 75, p. 120, no. 11]

6- Imam Ali (AS) said, ‘Humbleness spreads virtue.’
[Ghurar al-Hikam, no. 522]

7– Imam Ali (AS) said, ‘You must be humble, as it is one of the greatest
[forms of] worship.’
[Bihar al-Anwar, v. 75, p. 119, no. 5]

8– Imam Ali (AS) said, ‘It suffices for a man…in his humbleness to know his own worth.’
[Bihar al-Anwar, v. 78, p. 80, no. 66]

9– Imam Ali (AS) said, ‘He who goes to a wealthy person and humbles himself before him because of his wealth, a third of his faith goes.’
[Nahj al-Balagha, Saying 228]

10– Imam Ali (AS) said, ‘How good is the humbleness of the wealthy before the poor in seeking what is with Allah, and better than this is the pride of the poor before the wealthy in relying solely on Allah.’
[Nahj al-Balagha, Saying 406]

11– Imam al-Rida (AS) said, ‘Humbleness is to give to people what you yourself like to be given.’
[al-Kafi, v. 2, p. 123, no. 13]

12– Imam al-`Aaskari (AS) said, ‘Humbleness is a blessing that cannot be envied.’
[Tuhaf al-‘Uqul, p. 489]

13– Imam al-Sadiq (AS) said, ‘Humbleness is when a man sits in a place lower than his rank.’
[al-Kafi, v. 2, p. 123, no. 9]

14– Imam al-Sadiq (AS), from his fathers (AS) said, ‘Humbleness is for a man to be content to sit in any place and not a particular place, to greet those he meets, to leave disputation even if he is right, and to not like to be praised for piety.’
[Bihar al-Anwar, v. 75, p. 118, no. 3]

15– The Prophet (SAWA) said, ‘Humbleness increases the rank of that person, so humble yourselves and Allah will raise you.’
[al-Kafi, v. 2, p. 121, no. 1]

16– The Prophet (SAWA) said, ‘He who humbles himself for Allah, Allah will raise him such that he is weak in himself but strong in the eyes of others. And he who is haughty, Allah will degrade him such that he will be small in the eyes of others and big in his own, until he will be more despicable to them than a pig or a dog.’
[Kanz al-`Ummal, no. 5737]

17– Imam Ali (AS) said, ‘The fruit of humbleness is love, and the fruit of pride is abuse.’
[Ghurar al-Hikam, no. 4613-4614]

18– Imam Ali (AS) said, ‘Humbleness clothes you in dignity.’
[Bihar al-Anwar, v. 77, p. 287, no. 1]

19– Imam Ali (AS) said, ‘With the lowering of one’s wing are affairs organised.’
[Ghurar al-Hikam, no. 4302]

20– Imam Ali (AS) said, ‘Humbleness spreads virtue and haughtiness shows up vice.’
[Nahj al-Balagha, no. 522,523]

21– Imam al-Kazim (AS) said, ‘A plant grows on level ground and not on the hard terrain, and similarly wisdom flourishes in the heart of the humble, and does not flourish in the heart of the haughty and overbearing, because Allah made humbleness the instrument of the intellect and haughtiness the instrument of ignorance.’
[Bihar al-Anwar, v. 78, p. 312, no. 1]

22– Imam al-Kazim (AS) said, ‘Allah does not raise the humble in proportion to their humbleness, rather He raises them according to His own Greatness and Glory.’
[Tuhaf al-‘Uqul, p. 399]

23– Imam Ali (AS) said, ‘Humbleness cannot be resorted to… unless the heart is healthy.’
[Bihar al-Anwar, v. 78, p. 7, no. 59]

24– Imam Ali (AS) said, ‘Humbleness is the fruit of knowledge.’
[Ghurar al-Hikam, no. 301]

25– Imam Ali (AS) said, ‘It is not appropriate for one who knows the Greatness of Allah to consider himself as great, for verily the elevation of those who know His Greatness lies in humbling themselves before Him.’
[Nahj al-Balagha, Sermon 147]