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676–743
Muhammad ibn ‘Alī al-Bāqir (676 - 743 AD) (Arabic: محمد ابن علي الباقر ), was the fifth Twelver Shī‘ah Imām, grandson of Husayn, and second generation grandson of Muhammad. He was given the title "Baqir al-‘Ulūm" ("revealer / splitter of knowledge and wisdom"), due to his ample knowledge of religion and his enthusiasm to teach to other people.
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Opposition of one's desires is the sign of the highest level of wisdom in a human being.
Learn knowledge and science from him who teaches it, even if he doesn't practice what he preaches.
On the Day of Judgement, God will interrogate people according to the wisdom he has granted them.
The believer does not spend an expense more lovable with Allah than saying the truth during consent and anger.
Being sociable and affable with people brings kindness and friendship.
The scholar whose knowledge is made use of and benefited from, is worthier and more virtuous than seventy thousand worshippers and adorers.
Goodness to parents, and paying visits to ones own relatives, will ease the accounting on the Day of Judgement.
There is no pain worse than ignorance and lack of intelligence.
There is no strength higher than overcoming carnal desire.
The virtue of knowledge is more lovable with Allah than the virtue of worship. The best (thing) in your religion is piety.
Indeed, when a man earns wealth from a haraam (prohibited source) - neither Hajj, nor Umra, nor strengthening of his blood kinship, is ever at all accepted or approved. By God, Almighty.
Fasting is a shield against (hell) fire. Charity and dole remove and finish sin, as does the remembrance of God in the midnight.
Take the good speech from whoever said it even if his practice was not accordingly.
The parable of a man greedy of this world is the parable of the silk worm: the more it winds the thread round itself the farther it becomes from salvation, until it dies of grief.
Indeed, the most terrifically sorry of all the people on the day of resurrection, will be the servant who defines and shows the way of justice to the people, while he himself opposes it.
Two kinds of my community have no share in Islam. (They are): the extremists and the fatalists.
Three things destroy a man: considering his own deeds to be really great, forgetting the sins that have been committed, considering his own opinion to be the highest.
The person who loves for the sake of God, and detests and despises for the sake of God, and gives for the sake of God, is among those whose faith has achieved completion.
Knowledge and science is the fruit of paradise; in times of threat it is one's ally, in exile it keeps one company, and in solitude it is one's intimate friend and companion.
How beautiful it is when goodness succeeds badness; and how unappealing it is when evil succeeds goodness.
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