hadith
5125
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Imam Ali (AS) said, Either be patient like the freemen or else seek distraction [and forget] like the inept.
الإمامُ عليٌّ (عَلَيهِ الّسَلامُ) : إنْ صَبَرْتَ صَبْرَ الأحْرارِ وَ إلاّ سَلَوْتَ سُلُوَّ الأغْمارِ
Similar narrations
- Ghurar al-Ḥikam #5127 Imam Ali (AS) said, Either be patient like the honourable ones or else seek distraction like the animals.
- Mīzān al-Ḥikma #3024 Imam Ali (AS) said, ‘You can either have the perseverance of noblemen or be lost in the oblivion of beasts.
- Nahj al-Balāgha #2232 Either endure like great people or else you will forget like animals.
- Nahj al-Balāgha #1967 413. Amīr al-mu’minīn, peace be upon him, said: One should endure like free people, otherwise one should keep quite like the ignorant.