Hadiths Of

الإمام علي (عليه السَّلام):

الزُّهْدُ كُلُّهُ بَيْنَ كَلِمَتَينِ مِنَ الْقُرْآنِ: قَالَ اللهُ عزّوجلّ: (لكيلا تأسَوا عَلَى مَا فَاتَكُمْ ، وَ لا تَفْرَحُوا بِما آتَاكُمْ) ، فَمَنْ لَمْ يَأْسَ عَلَى الْمَاضِي، وَلَمْ يَفْرَحْ بِالاْتِي، فَقَدْ أَخَذَ الزُّهْدَ بِطَرَفَيْهِ

Imam Ali (as):

Asceticism [Zuhd] is summed up between two phrases in the Qur'an, where Allah, most High, says, "So that you may not grieve for what has escaped you, nor be exultant at what He has given you." Therefore, one who neither grieves about past losses nor is overjoyed about the possessions he is granted has perfected his asceticism from both sides.'

Source: Nahj al-Balāgha No553

ID: 63078

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الإمام علي (عليه السَّلام):

ازْهَدْ فِي الدُّنْيَا يُبَصّرْكَ اللهُ عَوْرَاتِهَا، وَلاَ تَغْفُلْ فَلَسْتَ بِمَغْفُولٍ عَنْكَ

Imam Ali (as):

Renounce the world and God will show you its flaws. Don’t remain heedless for you go not unheeded.

Source: Nahj al-Balāgha No545

ID: 63036

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الإمام علي (عليه السَّلام):

فی الْعُزُوفِ عَنِ الدُّنْیا دَرْکُ النَّجاحِ

Imam Ali (as):

Success is realized through abstaining from [attachment to] this world.

Source: Ghurar al-Ḥikam No139

ID: 62896

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الإمام علي (عليه السَّلام):

مَنْ عَرَفَ قَدْرَ نَفْسِهِ لَمْ يُهِنْهَا بِالْفَانِيَاتِ .

Imam Ali (as):

He who knows the worth of his self does not degrade it by [being attached to] what is doomed to perish.

Source: ‘Uyūn al-Ḥikam wal-Mawā’iḍ Vol1 P460

ID: 29914

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الإمام علي (عليه السَّلام):

أَحْيِ قَلْبَكَ بِالْمَوْعِظَةِ وَ أَمِتْهُ بِالزَّهَادَةِ وَ قَوِّهِ بِالْيَقِينِ وَ نَوِّرْهُ بِالْحِكْمَةِ وَ ذَلِّلْهُ بِذِكْرِ الْمَوْتِ وَ قَرِّرْهُ بِالْفَنَاءِ وَ بَصِّرْهُ فَجَائِعَ الدُّنْيَا.

Imam Ali (as):

Revive your heart with exhortations, and kill it will asceticism, strengthen it with conviction, enlighten it with wisdom, subdue it by remembering death, make it acknowledge mortality, make it see the misfortunate of this world.

Source: Nahj al-Balāgha Vol1 P392

ID: 29883

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الإمام جعفر الصادق (عليه السَّلام ):

مَنْ زَهِدَ فِي الدُّنْيَا أَثْبَتَ اللَّهُ الْحِكْمَةَ فِي قَلْبِهِ وَ أَنْطَقَ بِهَا لِسَانَهُ وَ بَصَّرَهُ عُيُوبَ الدُّنْيَا دَاءَهَا وَ دَوَاءَهَا وَ أَخْرَجَهُ مِنَ الدُّنْيَا سَالِماً إِلَى دَارِ السَّلَامِ.

Imam Ja‘far al-Ṣadiq (as):

Whoever abstains from worldly pleasures, Allah will establish wisdom in his heart, make it flow from his tongue, open his eyes to the flaws of the world, its ailment and its remedy, and will take him out of the world safely into the Abode of Peace.

Source: al-Kāfī Vol2 P128

ID: 29882

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رسول الله (صلی الله علیه و آله):

مَنِ ازْدَادَ فِي الْعِلْمِ رُشْداً وَ لَمْ يَزْدَدْ فِي الدُّنْيَا زُهْداً لَمْ يَزْدَدْ مِنَ اللَّهِ إِلَّا بُعْدا

The Prophet Muhammad (S):

He who does not increase in asceticism from worldly pleasures in spite of an increase in his knowledge only gets further away from Allah.

Source: Bahar alanevar Vol2 P37

ID: 29848

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الإمام محمد الباقر (عليه السَّلام):

الامام الباقر «ع»- فيما وصف به النبيّ «ص»: َ يَا مُحَمَّدُ لَعَلَّكَ تَرَى أَنَّهُ شَبِعَ مِنْ خُبْزِ الْبُرِّ ثَلَاثَةَ أَيَّامٍ مُتَوَالِيَةٍ- مِنْ أَنْ بَعَثَهُ اللَّهُ إِلَى أَنْ قَبَضَه‏؟ .. لَا وَ اللَّهِ مَا شَبِعَ مِنْ خُبْزِ الْبُرِّ ثَلَاثَةَ أَيَّامٍ مُتَوَالِيَةٍ مُنْذُ بَعَثَهُ اللَّهُ إِلَى أَنْ قَبَضَهُ أَمَا إِنِّي لَا أَقُولُ إِنَّهُ كَانَ لَا يَجِدُ لَقَدْ كَانَ يُجِيزُ الرَّجُلَ الْوَاحِدَ بِالْمِائَةِ مِنَ الْإِبِلِ فَلَوْ أَرَادَ أَنْ يَأْكُلَ لَأَكَل‏.

Imam Muhammad al-Baqir (as):

You might think that the prophet spent three consecutive days having eaten to his full since the time Allah mandated him with prophethood until He seized his soul. No, by Allah, he was never satiated for three consecutive days eversince he was commissioned with prophethood until he was taken [to his Lord]. It was not because he did not have access to enough food; he would, sometimes, reward a person with one hundred camels; so had he wanted, he could have eaten.

Source: Alamali Volcheykhe Toussi P1

ID: 29827

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الإمام علي (عليه السَّلام):

وَ اللَّهِ‏ لَوْ أُعْطِيتُ الْأَقَالِيمَ السَّبْعَةَ بِمَا تَحْتَ أَفْلَاكِهَا عَلَى أَنْ أَعْصِيَ اللَّهَ فِي نَمْلَةٍ أَسْلُبُهَا جُلْبَ شَعِيرَةٍ مَا فَعَلْتُهُ وَ إِنَّ دُنْيَاكُمْ عِنْدِي لَأَهْوَنُ مِنْ وَرَقَةٍ فِي فَمِ جَرَادَةٍ تَقْضَمُهَا.

Imam Ali (as):

By Allah, if I was given all the seven domains with all that exists under its celestial spheres in order that I may disobey Allah to the extent of snatching a single grain of barley from an ant, I would not do it. Verily your world to me is more worthless than a leaf being gnawed at in the mouth of a locust.

Source: Nahj al-Balāgha Vol1 P347

ID: 29819

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الإمام علي (عليه السَّلام):

فَدَعُونِي أَكْتَفِي مِنْ دُنْيَاكُمْ بِمِلْحِي وَ أَقْرَاصِي فَبِتَقْوَى اللَّهِ أَرْجُو خَلَاصِي مَا لِعَلِيٍّ وَ نَعِيمٍ يَفْنَى وَ لَذَّةٍ تَنْحَتُهَا الْمَعَاصِي سَأَلْقَى وَ شِيعَتِي رَبَّنَا بِعُيُونٍ سَاهِرَةٍ، وَ بُطُونٍ خِمَاص‏

Imam Ali (as):

Let me suffice with salt and some loaves of bread out of [the comforts of] your world, for I see felicity to be secured only through God-wariness. What does Ali have to do with a bounty which is bound to perish and an enjoyment provided through sin? My Shia and I will meet our Lord with eyes which kept awake [at nights] and with empty stomachs.

Source: Bahar alanevar Vol40 P348

ID: 29818

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