865 - موجِباتُ الزُّهدِ

865. FACTORS THAT ELICIT ASCETICISM

2750.الإمامُ عليٌّ عليه السلام : أحَقُّ الناسِ بالزَّهادَةِ مَن عَرَفَ نَقصَ الدنيا .¹

2750.Imam Ali (AS) said, 'The person best able to practice abstemiousness is he who understands the inferiority of this worldly life.' ²

2751.الإمامُ عليٌّ عليه السلام : كيفَ يَزهَدُ في الدنيا مَن لا يَعرِفُ قَدرَ الآخِرَةِ ؟ ! ³

2751.Imam Ali (AS) said, 'How can one renounce the pleasures of this world when he has not yet fathomed the worth of the Hereafter?!' ⁴

2752.الإمامُ الباقرُ عليه السلام : أكثِرْ ذِكرَ المَوتِ ، فإنّهُ لَم‏يُكثِرْ إنسانٌ ذِكرَ المَوتِ إلّا زَهِدَ في الدنيا .⁵

2752.Imam al-Baqir (AS) said, 'Remember death frequently, for no sooner does man increase his remembrance of death than he begins to renounce this world's life.' ⁶

2753.الإمامُ الكاظمُ عليه السلام عند قبرٍ حَضَرَهُ - : إنَّ شيئاً هذا آخِرُهُ لَحَقِيقٌ أن يُزهَدَ في أوَّلِهِ ، وإنَّ شيئاً هذا أوَّلُهُ لَحَقِيقٌ أن يُخافَ آخِرُهُ .⁷

2753. Imam al-Kazim (AS) once said while standing at a graveside, 'Indeed something that ends with this [i.e. death] is worthy of its beginning being spent in abstemiousness. And indeed something that begins with this is worthy of its end being feared with apprehension.' ⁸

2754.الإمامُ العسكريُّ عليه السلام : لَو عَقَلَ أهلُ الدنيا خَرِبَتْ .⁹

2754.Imam al-Askari (AS) said, 'If the inhabitants of this world used their intellect, the world would self-destruct [for it would cease to be of any importance].' ¹⁰

(اُنظر) الموت : باب 1671 .

(See also: DEATH: section 1671)