Master: On the Character of a Man — 100 Sayings of Imam Ali (as) | eBook (PDF)
Master: On the Character of a Man — 100 Sayings of Imam Ali (as) | eBook (PDF)
Master: On the Character of a Man — 100 Sayings and Stories of Imam Ali (as)
For every man still becoming.
He fought his first battle at thirteen. He ruled a vast territory in its most turbulent hour. He wrote a letter to his son on the nature of a man that philosophers still read fourteen centuries later. Known to history as Asadullah — the Lion of God — Imam Ali (as) left behind more than eleven thousand short teachings on courage, anger, brotherhood, death, wealth, and love.
This book contains one hundred of them — arranged in ten chapters around the questions every serious man must eventually answer.
The ten chapters
On Brotherhood — how do I choose the men closest to me?
On the Tongue — how do I govern what I say?
On Anger — what do I do with the lion within?
On Courage and Fear · On Patience — the long game of a steady man.
On Work, Wealth and Enough — what is the work I am here to do?
On Family, Fatherhood and Legacy — what am I leaving behind?
On This World · On Death · On the Sacred — the questions that put everything else in order.
How each teaching works
The saying — with its original Arabic.
The reflection — why it remains remarkable, and how it shows up in a real life.
Three questions — not to be answered quickly, but to be sat with, written through, and returned to.
A word of care: these pages are not gentle. Some of the questions will find you where you did not expect to be found. Write in it. Fight with it. Return to a page a year from now and see what the same three questions reveal.
Fourteen centuries old, yet you will find him seeing into your Tuesday with disarming clarity.
Begin where you are.
Format: Digital eBook (PDF) · 333 pages · 100 sayings with original Arabic · Instant download after purchase