When the people flocked to him and urged him to accept their allegiance, Ali compared them to thirsty camels that flock to the water pond when their strings are untied.
- Khalifa Ali bin Abu Talib
- Birth of Ali
- Years of childhood
- Ward of the Holy Prophet
- Conversion to Islam
- Battle Between the truth and falsehood
- Social Boycott Of Banu Hashim
- Year Of Sorrow
- Farewell to Makkah
- Early Days in Madina
- Battle of Badr
- Marriage of Ali
- The Bani Qainuqa
- The Battle of Uhud
- Banu Nadeer
- Battle of the Ditch
- Campaign Against Banu Mustaliq
- Banu Quraizah
- Operations Against Banu Sa'ad
- Treaty of Hudaibiya
- Battle of Khyber
- Conquest of Makkah
- The Battle of Hunain
- The Siege of Taif
- Campaign Against Banu Tai
- Christians Of Najran
- Banu Zabada
- Expedition To Tabuk
- The Declaration of Discharge
- Banu Ramla
- Mission to Yemen
- The Farewell Pilgrimage
- Khum Ghadir
- Death of the Holy Prophet
- The Caliphate of Abu Bakr
- Fatima Zahra
- Ali's Oration on the Death of Abu Bakr
- The Caliphate of Umar
- Ali During the Caliphate of Othman
- Election of Ali as the Caliph
- The Caliphate Issue
- Vengeance for the Blood of Othman
- Deposition of Provincial Governors
- Defiance of Muawiyah
- Defection of Talha and Zubair
- Ayesha
- Ayesha's March to Basra
- Battle for Basra
- Ayesha's Occupation of Basra
- Ali's March to Rabda
- Ali's Missions to Kufa
- Ali's March to Basra
- Peace Parleys
- The Battle of the Camel
- Ali's Occupation of Basra
- Kufa, the New Capital
- Qais Bin Saad Ansari
- Muawiyah
- Amr Bin Al-Aas
- In Quest of Peace with Muawiyah
- Letters of Ali Addressed to Muawiyah
- Ali's March to Syria
- The Battle for Water
- Months of Suspense
- The Battle of Siffin
- Arbitration Agreement
- The Kharijites
- Testament of Ali
- Testament of Ali
- The Hereafter
- Virtue and faith
- Protection of God
- The elders
- Your own way
- Tests of God
- Resignation to the Will of God
- Allah is One
- Picture of the world
- Balance between yourself and the people
- Self adulation
- The journey to the Hereafter
- Access to God
- Preparations for death
- Temptations of the world
- Counsels to follow
- Speech and silence
- Man and God
- Company
- The fate
- The times
- Sustenance
- Patience and faith
- Words of counsel
- Conclusion
- The Arbitration
- The Battle of Nahrawan
- Ali's loss Egypt
- Trouble in Basra
- Revolt of Khurrit Bin Rashid
- Raids of Muawiyah
- Martyrdom of Ali-661 C.E.
- Life of Ali, General Review
- Ali, The Man
- Distinctions of Ali
- Ali in the Holy Quran
- References to Ali in the Holy Quran
- Verse 33, Sura 33
- Verse 61, Sura 3
- Verse 23, Sura 42
- Verse 21, Sura 45
- Verse 17, Sura 11
- Verse 4, Sura 66
- Verse 18, Sura 32
- Verse 54, Sura 25
- Verse 36, Sura 24
- Verse 55, Sura 5
- Verse 12, Sura 58
- Verse 181, Sura 7
- Verse 57, Sura 43
- Verse 29, Sura 48
- Verse 43, Sura 13
- Verse 64, Sura 8
- Ali, The Father of Sufism
- Ali, The Gate of Knowledge
- Ali The Poet
- Ali, The Generous
- Administrative Instructions of Ali
- Judgements of Ali
- Ali as a Judge
- The story of loaves
- Dispute about a child
- Dispute about the custody of money
- How Ali detected the murder
- The Cow and the Ass
- Mad woman accused of adultery
- Child born in six months after marriage
- Share in the property of a deceased husband for a divorced wife
- The man who stole his coat of mail
- Ali's Conduct of Wars
- Social and Ethical Thought of Ali
- Thought of Ali
- Friends of Allah
- Momins and hypocrites
- Faqih
- Justice and mercy
- The world and the Hereafter
- Momin and an infidel
- Proximity to the ruler
- Haste
- Faith and faithlessness
- Philosophy
- Forgiveness
- Secret of success
- Kinds of patience
- Wealth and poverty
- Faith
- Momin
- Perfection
- Heresy
- Seven things of the devil
- Generosity
- Tauhid
- Justice
- Broadmindedness
- Wealth and health
- Two types of subsistence
- Truth and falsehood
- Things that are the best
- Things to which nothing is better
- Success and failure
- Person doomed to ignominy
- Three friends
- Three foes
- Two types of men
- Greetings and favor
- Humiliation
- Two hungry persons
- Miser
- Offshoots of patience
- Miserliness, patience, piety and cowardice
- The greatest and the vilest
- Companies to be avoided
- Two things to be afraid of
- The worst enemies
- Things that are worse
- Political Thought of Ali
- Ali's concept of God
- Ali on the Life of the World
- Anecdotes of Ali
- He decried flattery
- He denounced praise
- He would carry his own burden
- He did not want the people to follow in his retinue
- He prayed for patience to bear suffering
- His complaint against his people
- He rode on a mule instead of a horse
- He would never turn his back to the enemy
- He would not seek a concession
- He preferred his slave to himself
- He had no ambition for the caliphate
- He freed the slave who did not respond to his call
- He saw God with inward eyes
- He lost consciousness while praying
- He would not pay the enemy in its own coin
- He preferred his men to himself
- Two wrongs cannot make a right
- He was dispirited because he had no guest
- He wore dress of coarse cloth
- He wanted to travel light
- He would not break open the lock of the shop of God
- He was not afraid of death
- He did not care for the booty
- He would not own the treasure in the land that he had purchased
- He undertook to clear the debt of a dead Muslim
- He would not accept the allegiance from whom he had released
- He did not believe in the prognostication of the astrologer
- He would take no precaution to protect himself
- People stood in the way of his right
- Spacious house
- Renunciation, not the way of Islam
- Hosting dinner
- He could still wield the sword
- Similes of Ali
- Similes of Ali
- The world
- Falsehood
- The unbelievers
- The people who did not respond to his call
- The tree and the fruit
- The people of Basra
- People of the age of ignorance
- The people of Kufa
- Mughira b Shu'aba
- The people who run after the world
- The people who are not deceived by the world
- Ali's complaint against the Umayyads
- Falsehood of Muawiyah
- Shedding of Sins through prayer
- Cleanliness and prayers
- Crumbs after the meals
- The people who did not respond to his call
- Heart of the people
- Ignorant persons
- Ashas b Qais
- Patience and faith
- Disease and sins
- Death of the virtuous
- Days of life
- Devotion to the world
- Seekers of the world
- Virtue of silence
- Thirsty camels on a water pond
- The caliphate of Umar
- Umayyad use of the Baitul Mal
- Withholdiog the milk of the she camel from its young one
- Handle of the grinding stone
- The simile of a sinner
- Drops of rain
- The summer clouds
- Goat and the lion
- Taking the thorn out of the foot with a thorn
- Solution of the salt in water
- Bull with crooked horns
- Shaking of Plants
- Pregnant women separated from the child
- Household of the Holy Prophet
- Foaming waves of the Holy Prophet
- Sayings of Ali
- Assessment of Ali by Eminent Muslims
- Assessment of Ali by Western Scholars
Khalifa Ali bin Abu Talib - Similes of Ali
Thirsty camels on a water pond
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