Imam Ali
(as) has repeatedly instructed /warned/
Advised us to be Obedient to Him & follow
HIS Laws as can be seen from the extracts of
numerous Sermons below:-
|
|
Sermon 25
By Allah, I have begun thinking about these
people that they would shortly snatch away the
whole country through their unity on their wrong
and your disunity (from your own right), and
separation, your disobedience of your Imam in
matters of right and their obedience to their
leader in matters of wrong |
|
Sermon 63
We ask Allah, the Glorified, that He may make us
and you like one whom bounty does not mislead,
whom nothing can stop from obedience of Allah
and whom shame and grief do not befall after
death Sermon 96 : |
|
Sermon ? O'
those whose bodies are present but wits are
absent, and whose wishes are scattered. Their
rulers are on trial. Your leader obeys Allah but
you disobeyed him while the leader of the people
of Syria (ash-Sham) disobeys Allah but they obey
him. By Allah, I wish Mu`awiyah exchanges with
me like Dinars with Dirhams, so that he takes
from me ten of you and gives me one from them. |
|
Sermon 104
Desist others from the unlawful and abstain from
it yourself, because you have been commanded to
abstain (yourself) before abstaining (others). |
|
Sermon 117
You are supporters of Truth and brethren in
faith. You are the shield on the day of
tribulation, and (my) trustees among the rest of
the people. With your support I strike the
runner away and hope for the obedience of him
who advances forward. |
|
Sermon 122
By Allah in Whose hand (power) lies the life of
the son of Abu Talib, certainly a thousand
striking of the sword on me are easier to me
than a death in bed which is not in obedience to
Allah. |
|
Sermon 128
Alas! Allah cannot be deceived about His
paradise and His will cannot be secured save by
His obedience. Allah may curse those who advise
good but they themselves avoid it, and those who
desist others from evil but they themselves act
upon it. |
|
Sermon 150 Avoid the paths of Satan and the
places of revolt. Do not put in your bellies
unlawful morsels because you are facing Him Who
has made disobedience unlawful for you, and made
the path of obedience easy for you. |
|
Sermon 160
I trust in Allah, the trust of bending towards
Him, and I seek His guidance for the way that
leads to His Paradise and takes to the place of
His pleasure. I advise you, O' creatures of
Allah, to exercise fear of Allah and to obey Him
because it is salvation tomorrow and deliverance
for ever. |
|
Sermon 166 Fear Allah in the matter of His creatures and
His cities because you will be questioned even
about lands and beasts. obey Allah and do not
disobey Him. When you see virtue adopt it, and
when you see vice avoid it. |
|
Sermon 168
In Allah's authority lies the safety of your
affairs. Therefore, render Him such obedience as
is neither blameworthy nor insincere. By Allah,
you must do so, otherwise Allah will take away
from you the power of Islam, and will never
thereafter return it to you till it reverts to
others. |
|
Sermon 172
Seek the perfection of Allah's bounty over you
by endurance in obedience to Allah and in
guarding what He has asked you to guard, namely
His Book. |
|
Sermon 174
O' people ! By Allah, I do not impel you to any
obedience unless I practice it before you and do
not restrain you from any disobedience unless I
desist from it before you. |
|
Sermon 175 You should know that every obedience to Allah is
unpleasant in appearance while every
disobedience to Allah has the appearance of
enjoyment. Allah may have mercy on the person
who kept aloof from his desire and uprooted the
appetite of his heart, because this heart has
far-reaching aims and it goes on pursuing
disobedience through desires |
|
Sermon 187
Seek the completion of Allah's favors on you by
exercising endurance in His obedience and
abstention from His disobedience, because
tomorrow is close to today. |
|
Sermon 191
Therefore, Allah, the Glorified decided that
people should follow His prophets, acknowledge
His books, remain humble before His face, obey
His command and accept His obedience with
sincerity in which there should not be an iota
of anything else; and as the trial and
tribulation would be stiffer the reward and
recompense too should be larger |
|
Sermon 193 We praise Allah for the succour He has given us
in carrying out His obedience and in preventing
us from disobedience, and we ask Him to complete
His favours (to us) and to make us hold on to
His rope |
|
Sermon 197 Therefore, make obedience to Allah the way of
your life and not only your outside covering,
make it your inner habit instead of only outer
routine, subtle enough to enter through your
ribs (up to the heart), the guide for all your
affairs, the watering place for your getting
down (on the Day of Judgement), the interceder
for the achievement of your aims, asylum for the
day of your fear, the lamp of the interior of
your graves, company for your long loneliness,
and deliverance from the troubles of your
abodes. Certainly, obedience to Allah is a
protection against encircling calamities.
expected dangers and the flames of burning fires |
|
Sermon 213 In every matter of obedience you will find
Allah, the Glorified's succour that will speak
through tongues and accord firmness to hearts.
It has sufficiency for those who seek
sufficiency, and a cure for those who seek cure. |
|
Sermon 220 There are some people devoted to the remembrance
(of Allah) who have adopted it in place of
worldly matters so that commerce or trade does
not turn them away from it. They pass their life
in it. They speak into the ears of neglectful
persons warning against matters held unlawful by
Allah, they order them to practice justice and
themselves keep practicing it, and they refrain
them from the unlawful and themselves refrain
from it |
|
Sermon 235 A man should control his self by the rein and
hold it with its bridle, thus by the rein he
should prevent it from disobedience towards
Allah, and by the bridle he should lead it
towards obedience to Allah. |
|
Letter no 69
In all of your affairs keep the thought of Allah
in your mind and act according to His Commands
and interdictions because obedience to His
Orders has priority over every other thing. |
|
From his sayings
|
|
I define Islam for you in a way that nobody
dared do it before me. Islam means obedience to
Allah, obedience to Allah means having sincere
faith in Him, such a faith means to believe in
His Power, belief in His Power means recognizing
and accepting His Majesty, acceptance of His
Majesty means fulfilling the obligations laid
down by Him and fulfillment of obligations means
actions (Therefore, Islam does not mean mere
faith, but faith plus deeds) |
|
Imam Ali was asked the meaning of being well-off
or well-provided for. Imam Ali replied, "Your
welfare does not lie in your having enormous
wealth and numerous children but it rests in
your being highly educated and forbearing and in
your being proud of your obedience to Allah. If
you do a good deed then thank Allah for it and
if you commit a sin then repent and atone for
it. In this world there is a real welfare for
two kinds of people, one is the person who, when
commits a sin, atones for it and the other is
anxious to do good as much as possible |
|
Whoever persuades people to obey the orders of
Allah provides strength to the believers;
whoever dissuades them from vices and sins
humiliates the unbelievers; whoever struggles on
all occasions discharges all his obligations and
whoever detests the vicious only for the sake of
Allah, then Allah will take revenge on his
enemies and will be pleased with Him on the Day
of Judgment. |
|
Nearest to the prophets are those persons who
have to those prophets and obey them". Saying
this, Imam Ali cited a passage from the Holy
Qur'an 'Best liked by Abraham and nearest to him
were the people who obeyed him'. He further
said, "That the present times are the times of
our Holy Prophet and his faithful followers. The
best friend of our Holy Prophet is he who,
though not related to him, obeys the orders of
Allah and his greatest enemy is the man who
though related to him, disobeys Allah '. |
|
You are ordained to recognize the Imams (the
right successors of the Holy Prophet) and to
obey them. |
|
One should not obey anyone against the commands
of Allah. |
|
To refrain from unlawful and impious source of
pleasures is an ornament to the poor and to be
thankful for the riches granted is the adornment
of wealth. |
