Imam Ali’s Sayings on Keeping Promises and Fulfilling Pledges (Loyalty) Part1
Being loyal to the treacherous is treachery in the sight of Allah, the Glorified.
Loyalty is the twin of trustworthiness and the adornment of brotherhood.
Loyalty means preserving the rights [of others] and magnanimity means caring for ones close relatives.
Verily loyalty is the twin of truthfulness and I do not know of a shield that is more protective than it.
Loyalty is nobility.
Loyalty is the twin of truthfulness.
Loyalty is the trait of the honourable.
Loyalty is the symbol of abundant religiousity and strong trustworthiness.
If something happens between you and your enemy, which leads you to a truce and the enacting of a peace treaty, the preserve your pact with loyalty and guard your pledge with trust, and make your soul a shield between you and that which you have pledged.
The bane of covenants is lack of care [in fulfilling them].
The bane of loyalty is treachery.
When you make a promise, keep it.
When you make an agreement, fulfill it.
By their faithful loyalty, the virtuous ones are known.
The distinction of creatures is [by their] oyalty.
Guard your promise with loyalty and your reward will be good.
The abode of loyalty is never without the [presence of the] honourable, and is never occupied by the wicked.
The cause of intimacy is loyalty.
