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Akalim of Amirul Mumineen Maulana Ali (AS)

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Akalim of Amirul Mumineen Maulana Ali (AS)

Good Turns And Benevolent Actions

201. One who accepts your good turn has humbled his prestige and honour before you.

201. One who accepts your good turn has humbled his prestige and honour before you.

201 مَنْ قَبِلَ مَعْرُوفَكَ فَقَدْ أذَلَّ لَكَ جَلالَتَهُ وعِزَّتَهُ.

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202. Whoever does not nurture his favour, then it is as if he did not bestow it.

202. Whoever does not nurture his favour, then it is as if he did not bestow it.

202 مَنْ لَمْ يُرَبِّ مََعْرُوْفَهُ فَكَأنَّهُ لَمْ يَصْنَعْهُ.

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204. One of the greatest afflictions is wasting good turns [on the undeserving].

204. One of the greatest afflictions is wasting good turns [on the undeserving].

204 مِنْ أعْظَمِ الفَجايِعِ إضاعَةُ الصَّنايِعِ.

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205. One of the best favours is the favour that is done to the righteous.

205. One of the best favours is the favour that is done to the righteous.

205 مِنْ أفْضَلِ الإحْسانِ الإحْسانُ إلَى الأبْرارِ.

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206. Nothing earns gratitude like doing good to others.

206. Nothing earns gratitude like doing good to others.

206 مَا اكْتُسِبَ الشُّكْرُ بِمِثْلِ بَذْلِ المَعْرُوفِ.

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207. Nothing enthrals people like doing [them] favours.

207. Nothing enthrals people like doing [them] favours.

207 مَا اسْتُرِقَّتِ الأعْناقُ بِمِثْلِ الإحْسانِ.

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208. No one has appealed to me with an intercession that is greater in my sight than a favour that I had previously done to him, so that I may nurture it and follow it up with another [favour] like it; for indeed later refusals cut off the gratitude for earlier favours.

208. No one has appealed to me with an intercession that is greater in my sight than a favour that I had previously done to him, so that I may nurture it and follow it up with another [favour] like it; for indeed later refusals cut off the gratitude for earlier favours.

208 ما تَوَسَّلَ أحَدٌ إلَيَّ بِوَسِيلَة أجَلَّ عِنْدي مِنْ يَد سَبَقَتْ مِنّي إلَيْهِ لاُِرَبِيَّها عِنْدَهُ بِاتِّباعِها أُخْتَها فَإنَّ مَنْعَ الأواخِرِ يَقْطَعُ شُكْرَ الأوائِلِ.

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209. The basis of goodness is abandoning obligation through it.

209. The basis of goodness is abandoning obligation through it.

209 مِلاكُ المَعْرُوفِ تَرْكُ المَنِّ بِهِ.

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