✦⋆· said, "Faith is not [acquired] through embellishment or wishing. Rather faith is that which is pure in the heart and is certified by actions."

● "Faith is inner knowledge by means of the heart, attestation with the tongue and action with the limbs."

● "Faith is patience and liberality."

● "Three qualities which, when present in a person, enable him to savour the taste of faith: that nothing is more beloved to him than Allah and His Messenger, that to be burned in the Fire is more beloved to him than to denounce his religion, and that he loves for the sake of Allah and hates for the sake of Allah."

● "A servant will never attain the reality of faith until he is angered only for the sake of Allah and is pleased only for Allah. When he does that, he truly becomes deserving of the reality of faith."

● "A servant will not have faith until he loves for others the good that he loves for himself."

● "Faith and action are two brothers, bound together with a single rope. Allah will not accept either one without the other."

● "A sin cannot expel the faithful person from his faith, just as an act of goodness cannot expel an infidel from his faithlessness."

● "An adulterer would never commit adultery whilst still a believer and a thief would never steal whilst still a believer."

● "Three qualities, when present in an individual, will complete his faith: a man who does not fear the reproach of an admonisher for the sake of Allah, who never shows off in any of his actions, and who when faced with two matters, one for this world and the other for the Hereafter, he chooses the matter of the Hereafter over the world."

● "A Servant's faith is incomplete until he loves for his brother what he loves for himself, and until he fears Allah both in times of jesting as well as seriousness."

● "A servant's faith in Allah is not complete until he has five attributes in him:

Complete reliance upon Allah, entrusting [his affairs] to Allah, submission to Allah's will, contentment with Allah's decree, and patience in Allah's tribulations.

Certainly one who loves for the sake of Allah, hates for the sake of Allah, gives for the sake of Allah, and withholds for the sake of Allah has in fact completed faith."

● "The best of faith is to know that Allah is with you wherever you are."

● "He whose greatest concern is fulfilling his own desires has the sweetness of faith wrested from his heart."

● "Faith is in ten things: inner knowledge, obedience, knowledge, action, piety, striving, patience, conviction, contentedness and submission. And if the individual lacks any one of them, it nullifies the whole structure of his faith."

● "Two traits can never be found at the same time in a believer: miserliness and pessimism about one's sustenance."

● "Two traits can never be found at the same time in a believer: avarice and ill-naturedness."

✦⋆· said, "I define Islam for you in a way that nobody dared do it before me.

Islam means obedience to Allah,

Obedience to Allah means having sincere faith in Him,

Such a faith means to believe in His Power,

Belief in His Power means recognizing and accepting His Majesty,

Acceptance of His Majesty means fulfilling the obligations laid down by Him and fulfillment of obligations means actions (Therefore, Islam does not mean mere faith, but faith plus deeds)."

● "If faith was a mere statement, then fasting, prayers, the lawful and the unlawful things would not have been prescribed for it."

● "The most perfect in faith from among you is the one with the best character."

● "Three attributes, when present in an individual, completes his faith: intellect, clemency and knowledge."

● "A servant's faith is not complete until he loves one whom Allah, the Glorious, loves and hates one whom Allah, the Glorious, hates."

● "Faith appears as a white spot in the heart. So whenever faith increases in magnitude, the whiteness increases. When faith is completed, the entire heart becomes white."

● "Excellent chastity, and satisfaction with the bare necessities are among the pillars of faith."

● "A part of faith is that which is firm and steadfast in the hearts, and another part is that which remains temporarily in the hearts and the chests up until a certain time."

● "A servant will never savour the taste of faith until he abandons lying, both in jest and earnestness."

● "Man will never taste the reality of faith until he possesses three qualities: understanding of religion, perseverance in calamities, and a good assessment of his income."

● "The best form of devotion to the service of Allah is not to make a show of it."

● "If I cut a faithful Muslim into pieces to make him hate me, he will not turn into my enemy.

And if I give all the wealth of this world to a hypocrite to make him my friend he will not befriend me.

It is so because the Holy Prophet has said: "O 'Ali! No faithful Muslim will ever be your enemy and no hypocrite will ever be your friend."

✦⋆· said, "Faith is to attest and to act, whereas Islam is to attest without action."

✦⋆· said, "Verily the reality of faith is for you to prefer right, even if it is to your detriment, over wrong, even if it is to your benefit."

● "Certainly Allah has divided faith into seven parts: goodness, honesty, conviction, contentedness, loyalty, knowledge and clemency."

● Imam Sadiq (as), when asked what consolidates a servant's faith, replied, 'The thing that consolidates it in him is piety, and that which takes him out of it [i.e. faith] is greed."

● "It is prohibited for your hearts to experience the sweetness of faith until they abstain from this world [i.e. its pleasures]."

● "The servant can come out of faith through five means, all resembling each other: infidelity, polytheism [i.e. associating anything with Allah], straying from the truth, immorality, and embarking on committing grave sins."

● "Six things cannot be found in a believer: [a feeling of] hardship, anxiety, jealousy, disputatiousness, dishonesty, and aggression."

✦⋆· said, "Faith is all action, and the statement is but part of the action that Allah has made mandatory, which He has explained in His Book."