Alone with the Alone

Quote No. 20 from Ali Ibn Abi Talib

On Virtue and Self-Mastery

سيّئةٌ تسوؤُكَ خيرٌ عندَ اللهِ من حسنةٍ تُعجبك.

The sin that displeases you is better in God’s eyes than the virtue that makes you vain.

No. 20

These quotes come from Alone with the Alone, a 264-page bilingual hardcover of 113 quotes from Ali Ibn Abi Talib, with footnotes and an afterword.

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