Twelve successors of Holy Prophet (SAW)

Imam Ali	Imam Hassan	Imam Hussain	Imam Zain-Ul-Abideen
Imam Mohammad Baqir	Imam Jafar Sadiq	Imam Musa Kazim	Imam Ali Raza
Imam Mohammad Taqi	Imam Ali Naqi	Imam Hassan Askari	Imam Mohammad Mahdi

Sayings by IMAM ALI (a.s.)

1. Do not keep the company of an evil person, for surely your character will take on something of his character without your even realizing it. 2. Do not fall into despair over wrong action, when the door of turning to Him in repentance is always open. 3. Every statement in which God is not mentioned is a vanity. Every silence in which there is no thought of Him is carelessness. Every reflection in which there is no consideration of Him is an idle pastime. 4. Initiating a good deed is a matter of choice, but seeing it through is obligatory. 5. The man of learning is alive even after he is dead. The man of ignorance is dead even while he is alive"

Sayings by IMAM HASSAN (a.s.)

1. Do not make haste in punishing the sinner for his sin and let a way (passage) between the two (fault and punishment) excuse and apology. 2. Teach others your knowledge and learn knowledge of others so you will bring your knowledge to perfection and learn something which you do not know. 3. The one who does not have wits and intelligence does not have decorum and decency and the one who lacks fortitude , does not have generosity and magnanimity and that one who does not possess shame and modesty , does not have religion . 4. Piety is the gateway to all repentance, and the principal of all wisdom, and the distinction of all deeds.

Sayings by IMAM HUSSAIN (a.s.)

1. He who tries to achieve something through acting disobediently to Allah will miss what he expects and fall in what he fears. 2. Beware of things for which you apologize. The true believer should not make mistakes and should not apologize. The hypocrite makes mistakes and apologizes everyday. 3. Sitting with the intelligent is a sign of successfulness. Disputation with other than the disbelievers is a sign of ignorance. A sign of a scholar is his self-criticism of his sayings and his acquaintance with the various hypotheses. 4. The true stingy is that who refrains from greeting.

Sayings by IMAM ZAIN-UL-ABIDEEN (a.s.)

1. Who honors himself dishonors worldly things. 2. The company of the righteous invites you to goodness. 3. Beware of keeping company with the sinful and helping the unjust. 4. Abstain from lies both small and big and in all conditions whether joking or serious 5. Sins which terminate the blessings are: oppression against people, abandoning piety, not commanding good deeds, ingratitude for blessings and favors, and not giving thanks.

Sayings by IMAM MOHAMMAD BAQIR (a.s.)

1. Remember your previous sins with severe repentance and more seeking forgiveness. 2. One who disobeys Allah has no knowledge of him. 3. The scholar who derives benefit from his knowledge is better than 70,000 devotees. 4. The height of perfection is excellence in the understanding of the religion, endurance in hardships and administration of the affairs of life according to one's means, in the right measure.

Sayings by IMAM JAFAR SADIQ (a.s.)

1. The person moving to help his Momin brothers is like the person who is walking between Safa and Marwa. 2. He who treats people kindly will be accepted as arbiter. 3. To trust everybody in times of injustice and cheating is disability. 4. If problems are added to each other, they will give birth of relief. 5. To recognize the actuality of your friend, you should enrage him. If he keeps up his friendship, he is true friend lest, he is false. 6. Do not appreciate one's affection before you enrage him three times. 7. Endeavour to converse with your children, lets others who transgress and disobey get to them before you. 8. Intellect is that with which people worship the Most Gracious (Allah) and with which they obtain gardens. 9. The perfection of intellect is in three (things): humbleness for Allah, good certainty, and silence except for good. 10. Ignorance is in three (things): Haughtiness, the intense of dispute, and the ignorance in Allah.

Sayings by IMAM MUSA KAZIM (a.s.)

1. He is not from us who does not take the account of himself everyday. 2. A man is not a Momin till he becomes fearful & hopeful. And he will not become fearful & hopeful unless he acts according to his fears & hopes. 3. Indeed, the greatest of all the people is the person who does not consider the world an abode for himself. There is no price of your bodies except the paradise, so, do not sell them without (achieving) it. 4. There is a proof & logic for every thing & the proof of an intelligent person is his meditation & the proof of meditation is quientness. 5. Indeed cultivation & growth takes shape in a soft, even land, not in a rocky (barren) land. Similarly, wisdom grows & develops in a humble heart & does not grow in a proud, vain & arrogant heart. 6. On the Day of Judgment Allah stops chastisement from getting the person who restrains his anger from affecting other people. 7. The worst of the servants of Allah are those whose company is undesirable due to their obscene & filthy language.

Sayings by IMAM ALI RAZA (a.s.)

1. The best and most respected virtue of a man is to do good and to fulfill the desires of the needy. 2. The honest man has not betrayed you, but you consider the betrayer as the honest one. You had better avoid the munificence that results in the greater loss to you than the benefits received by your brethren. 3. He who is sure about the divine rewards will be more generous. 4. He who adopts someone as a brother in order to provide Allah's consent will be given a chamber in paradise. 5. Giving alms is the most valuable savings. 6. To be patient in the face of hard-ships is a virtue but to refrain from forbidden deeds is a greater one. 7. Patience and resignation are considered as the worthiest devotions. 8. True devotion not only means excessive sayings of prayers and keeping fasts. One ought to meditate on the divinity profoundly. 9. Be modest before your friends and be prudent while encountering an enemy. Be pleasant with everyone. 10. I wonder at one who purchases the slaves and releases them. Why doesn't he try to make the free people indebted by his good conduct? 11. It is much better to be uninterested in other's properties than to be munificent. 12. To help the disabled is much better than to give alms. 13. Beast wealth is that which provides a good name for its owner. 14. There is no better milk for the baby's nourishment than its mother's.

Sayings by IMAM MOHAMMAD TAQI (a.s.)

1. Don't pretend to be Allah's servant and be His enemy in privacy. 2. Don't be God's friend in appearance and his enemy in secret. 3. Sincerity is the best of all worships. 4. Relying on Allah is the price of every valuable thing and the ladder to every treasured thing. 5. To show a matter before preparing for it properly is spoiling it. 6. Love is attracted due to three traits: being just in social dealings, assisting others in hardships and having a pure heart. 7. Four things are required to do anything: health, independence, knowledge and divine assistance. 8. Three deeds are performed by the believers: following the wajibaat, abstaining from sins, and not neglecting the religion. 9. Whoever had three thing, will never regret: 1 - Refraining from haste, 2 - Consulting 3 - and depending upon God when decision making.

Sayings by IMAM ALI NAQI (a.s.)

1. This life (Dunia) is a market in which some people gained and other lost. 2. Do not expect honesty and purity of intention from someone who has suffered from your malice; do not expect loyalty from one to whom you have been disloyal; do not expect goodwill from someone whom you regard with ill will; as his heart towards you is the same as your heart towards him.

Sayings by IMAM HASSAN ASKARI (a.s.)

1. Your guaranteed sustenance (Rizq) should not take you away from fulfilling your religious duties. 2. Generosity has a limit, which when crossed becomes extravagance; caution has a limit which when crossed becomes cowardice; thriftiness has a limit, which when crossed becomes miserliness; courage has a limit, which when crossed becomes fool-hardiness. Let this moral lesson suffice: refrain from doing anything which you would disapprove of if done by someone else.

Sayings by IMAM MOHAMMAD MAHDI (a.s.)

1. Keep prayers to Allah for hastening the reappearance, hence it is your victory. 2. Rest assured that no one has a special relationship with Allah. Whoever denies me is not my (follower). The appearance of the Relief (al-Faraj) depends solely upon Allah; therefore, those who propose a certain time for it are liars. As to the benefit of my existence in Occultation, it is like the benefit of the sun behind clouds where the eyes do not see. Indeed, my existence is an amnesty for the people of the earth. Pray much to Allah to hasten the Relief, for therein also lays the release from your sufferings.

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