Ali (may Allah be pleased with him)

The greatest fault is to find fault in another with what is also in you.

أكبر العيب أن تعيب ما فيك مثله

Akbar al-ʿayb an taʿība mā fīka mithluhu

Ali, Nahj al-Balagha, saying 353 (Subhi Salih edition, p. 536; saying 353 in the Abduh edition). The Nahj al-Balagha is a compilation without chains of transmission by al-Sharif al-Radi (d. 1015).

It is easy to see another's flaw.
Hard to see your own.

Ali names the greatest fault:
finding fault in another with what is in you.

Most of the time
what angers us most in another
is our own mirror.

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