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Ali ibn Husayn Zayn al-Abidin , also known as al-Sajjad or simply Zayn al-Abidin , was the fourth Shia Imam, after his father Husayn ibn Ali, his uncle Hasan ibn Ali, and his grandfather Ali ibn Abi Talib. Ali ibn Husayn survived the Battle of Karbala in 680 CE, after which he and other surviving family members and companions of Husayn were taken to Yazid I in Damascus. Eventually, he was allowed to return to Medina, where he led a secluded life with a few intimate companions. Imam Sajjad's life and statements were entirely devoted to asceticism and religious teachings, mostly in the form of invocations and supplications. His famous supplications are known as Al-Sahifa al-Sajjadiyya. Wikipedia  

✵ 4. January 659 – 20. October 713
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“The dearest among you to God (the High), is the one whose deeds and behavior are better than others.”

Ali Zayn al-Abidin

Majlisi, Bihārul Anwār, vol.78, p. 136.
Religious wisdom

“Surely, I have never brought to mind the martyrdom of the children of Fātimah (A. S.) except that I have been choked with tears due to it.”

Ali Zayn al-Abidin

Majlisi, Bihārul Anwār, vol.46, p. 109.

“To what extent you can, avoid bad deeds, even if everybody takes you as the agent of bad deeds.”

Ali Zayn al-Abidin

Majlisi, Bihārul Anwār, vol.78, p. 161.
Religious wisdom

“Anybody who performs his necessary duties that God has obliged him perform, he himself will be one of the best worshippers of all.”

Ali Zayn al-Abidin

Muhammad al-Hur al-Aamili, Wasā'il al-Shī‘ah, vol.11, p. 206.
Religious wisdom

“I assure (you) before my Lord, that he who begs without neediness, will some day begs out of neediness.”

Ali Zayn al-Abidin

Muhammad al-Hur al-Aamili, Wasā'il al-Shī‘ah, vol.6, p. 305.
Religious wisdom

“If people realize the value of science and knowledge, they will sacrifice themselves for earning it.”

Ali Zayn al-Abidin

Majlisi, Bihārul Anwār, vol.1, p. 183.

Ali Zayn al-Abidin Quotes

“Be aware that the most detested person in the presence of God, is the one who accepts an Imam as a leader, but doesn't follow him in action.”

Ali Zayn al-Abidin

Ibn Shu’ba al-Harrani, Tuhaf al-'Uqul, p. 287.
Religious wisdom

“(The position of) patience in faith is like that of the head in the body, and he who has no patience has no faith.”

Ali Zayn al-Abidin

Muhammad Kulayni, Usūl al-Kāfī, vol.2, p. 89.
Religious wisdom

“No day was more difficult for Allah’s Messenger than the Day (Battle) of Uhud in which his uncle Hamza, the lion of Allah and the lion of His Messenger, was killed, and after it was the Day of Mu'tah in which his cousin Ja'far ibn Abi Talib was killed." Then he (Zayn al-Abidin) said: "There was no day like the Day of Husayn, when thirty thousand men advanced against him (while) they claimed that they belonged to this community, and that they (wanted) to seek proximity to Allah, the Great and Almighty, through (shedding) his blood. He (al-Husayn) reminded them of Allah, but they did not learn (from him) till they killed him out of (their) oppression and aggression".”

Ali Zayn al-Abidin

Majlisi, Bihārul Anwār 22/274, H. 21 and 44/298, H. 4.

“I wonder at him who shows haughtiness and vainglory, while he was as a sperm yesterday and will be a carrion tomorrow.”

Ali Zayn al-Abidin

Balāghat al-Imām Zayn al-‘Ābidīn, p. 27 ; Mirza Muhammad Taqi Lisan al-Mulk Sipihr, Nāsikh al-Tawārikh, vol.1, p. 484.

“There was no day like the Day of al-Husayn, when thirty thousand men advanced against him (while) they claimed that they belonged to this community, and that they (wanted) to seek proximity to Allah, the Great and Almighty, through (shedding) his blood. He (al-Husayn) reminded them of Allah, but they did not learn (from him) till they killed him out of (their) oppression and aggression.”

Ali Zayn al-Abidin

Majlisi, Bihārul Anwār, vol.9, p. 147.

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