hadith
3493
۞
Imam Ali (AS) said, Let not the greatest thing that you achieve in this world be the attainment of pleasures and the quelling of rage, rather let it be the enlivening of truth and the annihilation of falsehood.
الإمامُ عليٌّ (عَلَيهِ الّسَلامُ) : لايَكُونَنَّ أفْضَلَ ما نِلْتَ مِنْ دُنياكَ بُلوغَ لَذَّة وَ شِفاءَ غَيْظ وَ لْيَكُنْ إحياءَ حَقّ وَ إماتَةِ باطل
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