Imam Ali’s Quotes on Trust
1- Trust those who have proved themselves faithful.
2- Do not trust and do not count upon the help of those who have proved faithless and disloyal.
3- Trust in Allah and let your mind seek His protection in every calamity and suffering because you will thus entrust yourself and your affairs to the Best Trustee and to the Mightiest Guardian. Do not seek help or protection from anybody but Allah.
4- Whoever trusts this world is betrayed by it and whoever gives it importance is disgraced by it.
5- Do not imagine that the trust reposed in you by Allah can be treated lightly, do not ruin your religion otherwise you will be one of those whose deeds are to be punished.
6- Day and night keep the fear of Allah in your mind. Be afraid of this alluring and vicious world, never trust it.
7- When a community is composed of honest, sober and virtuous people, your forming a bad opinion about anyone of its members, when nothing wicked has been seen of him, is a great injustice to him. On the contrary in a corrupt society to form good opinion of anyone of them and to trust him is to harm yourself.
8- O son of Adam, if you have collected anything in excess of your actual need, you will act only as its trustee for someone else to use it.
