There are many persons whom constant grants of His Bounties turn them wicked and fit for His punishment and there are many more who have become vain and self- deceptive because the Merciful God has not exposed their weaknesses and vices to the world and the people speak highly about them. All this is an opportunity. No trial of the Lord is more severe than the time He allows (in which either you may repent or get deeper into vices).

When somebody asked Imam Ali as to how he was getting on, he replied: 'What do you want to know about a person whose life is leading him towards ultimate death…

Two kinds of people will be damned on my account Those who form exaggerated opinion about me and those who under-estimate me because they hate me.

When a community is composed of honest, sober and virtuous people, your forming a bad opinion about anyone of its members, when nothing wicked has been seen of…