الحَربِ War

1- الإمامُ عليٌّ (عَلَيهِ الّسَلامُ) : رُبَّ حَربٍ أعْوَدُ مِن سِلْم.

1– Imam Ali (AS) said, ‘Many a war is more profitable than peace.’[Ghurar al-Hikam, no. 5320]
 

2ـ الإمامُ عليٌّ (عَلَيهِ الّسَلامُ) : الخُلفُ مَثارُ الحُروبِ.

2– Imam Ali (AS) said, ‘Diversity is the instigator of wars.’[Ghurar al-Hikam, no. 705]
 

3ـ الإمامُ عليٌّ (عَلَيهِ الّسَلامُ) : اللَّجاجُ مَثارُ الحُروبِ.

3– Imam Ali (AS) said, ‘Obstinacy is the instigator of wars.’[Ghurar al-Hikam, no. 406]
 

4- الإمامُ الحسينُ (عَلَيهِ الّسَلامُ) : ألا إنَّ الحَربَ شَرُّها ذَريعٌ ، وطَعْمُها فَظيعٌ ، فمَن أخَذَ لَها اُهْبَتَها ، واسْتَعدَّ لَها عُدَّتَها ، ولَم يألَمْ كُلومَها قَبلَ حُلولِها ، فذاكَ صاحِبُها ، ومَن عاجَلَها قَبلَ أوانِ فُرْصَتِها ، واسْتِبْصارِ سَعيهِ فيها ، فذاكَ قَمِنٌ ألاّ يَنْفَعَ قَومَهُ ، وأنْ يُهْلِكَ نَفْسَهُ .

4– Imam al-Husayn (AS) said, ‘Know that the evil of war is swift, and its taste is bitter. Therefore, he who prepares for it, and sees to its requirements, and does not suffer its wounds before its onset, he is its master; but he who plunges into it before its proper time and before gaining insight into his own effort therein, he is fit not to benefit his people and to ruin himself.’[Sharhe Nahj al-Balagha li Ibn Abi al-Hadid, v. 3, p. 186]