Hazrat ALI (AS) – WEALTH OR KNOWLEDGE.WHICH IS BETTER

Hazrat Ali (AS) once replied to a group of ten learned men who said, 'We seek your permission for our putting a question to you.'


Imam Ali (AS) replied, 'You are at perfect liberty.'


They said, 'of knowledge and wealth, which is better and why. Please give a separate answer to each of us

Imam Ali (AS) answered in ten parts:
1. Knowledge is the legacy of the Prophets; wealth is the inheritance of the Pharaohs. Therefore, knowledge is better than wealth


2. You are to guard your wealth but knowledge guards you. Therefore, knowledge is better.


3. A man of wealth has many enemies, while a man of knowledge has many friends. Hence, knowledge is better.


4. Knowledge is better because it increases with distribution, while wealth decreases by that act.


5. Knowledge is better because a learned man is apt to be generous while a wealthy person is apt to be miserly.


6. Knowledge is better because it cannot be stolen while wealth can be stolen.


7. Knowledge is better because time cannot harm knowledge but wealth rusts in course of time and wears away.


8. Knowledge is better because it is boundless while wealth is limited and you can keep account of it.


9. Knowledge is better because it illuminates the mind while wealth is apt to blacken it.


10. Knowledge is better because knowledge induced the humanity in our Prophet to say to GOD 'we worship thee as we are your servants,' while wealth engendered in Pharaoh and Nimrod the vanity which made them claim godhead.

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"The six keys to success".

"The six keys to success".

Right off the bat:
Don't confuse how much money one has as to his or her success!

These keys will not unlock any opportunities of success without first having a strong and unfailing faith in God or that Being which is greater than you.
Please don't go through life as your "own little god."

I encourage you to memorize these six keys
by using the word ADVICE to do so.

1. Attitude
   Bloom where you are planted. You have a choice to get back up after temporary set backs. Attitude is a small thing that makes a big difference!
   
   
2. Direction
   If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there. Write your short term goals down on paper. I have discovered and continue to discover that putting your dreams and goals down on paper lock in or focus your belief that they can be achieved--even if you have to take a course correction in achieving your goals. Success comes in cans, failure comes in can'ts.
   
   
3. Values
   Explore what is important to you. Maybe it is family, friends, your spirituality or working hard at any given task. I can assure you that your priorities will change as you grow older. Very important that you value yourself and treat yourself like the valuable gift from God that you are.
   
   
4. Interests
   Birds of a feather flock together. This is to say that if you are hanging around winners or others with a "can do" mind-set, you'll likely adapt to this same kind of thinking. Remember--"SUCCESS LEAVES CLUES!
   
   
5. Commitment
   Feelings may change, commitments do not. "Success is getting up one more time than you fall." I have often wanted to give up, and then I must think to myself about what the consequences of giving up will be. Generally, this is more than enough of a motivation to make us stick to the task at hand even if we don't feel like it. When the task is achieved, Whow!--IT FEELS GREAT!
   
   
6. Encouragement
   Be an encourager and comforter to friends that are feeling discouraged. I promise that you will not regret this as you will be encouraged by one, if not many, when you are feeling down. Encouragement and love are contagious qualities that can change the minds of the most stubborn and "hard-to-get- along-with" people you know. I have seen it happen over and over again.

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