Health and Islam: Beauty - Imam Ali (as)

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External beauty lies [in possessing] good looks.

Internal beauty lies [in possessing] a good heart.

The beauty of a man is his clemency.

The beauty of a man is dignity.

The purity of beauty is [in] chastity.

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