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)

864 - صِفاتُ الزّاهِدِ

864. QUALITIES OF THE ONE WHO PRACTICES ASCETICISM

2746.الإمامُ عليٌّ عليه السلام : الزاهدُ في الدنيا مَن لَم يَغلِبِ الحَرامُ صَبرَهُ ، ولَم يَشغَلِ الحَلالُ شُكرَهُ .¹

2746.Imam Ali (AS) said, 'The one who practices asceticism from worldly pleasures is such that he neither allows the prohibited things to overcome his perseverance [in the way of Allah], nor the permissible things to distract him from gratefulness to Allah.' ²

2747.الإمامُ عليٌّ عليه السلام : إنّ الزاهِدينَ في الدنيا تَبكِي قلُوبُهُم وإن ضَحِكُوا ، ويَشتَدُّ حُزنُهُم وإن فَرِحُوا ، ويَكثُرُ مَقتُهُم أنفُسَهُم ، وإنِ اغتَبَطُوا بما رُزِقُوا .³

2747.Imam Ali (AS) said, 'Those who restrain themselves from worldly pleasures are such that their hearts are weeping though outwardly they may laugh, they experience great sorrow though they display joy, and they are filled with self-contempt though they rejoice at all that they have been bestowed.' ⁴

2748.الإمامُ الصّادقُ عليه السلام لمّا سُئلَ عن الزاهِدِ في الدنيا - : الذي يَترُكُ حَلالَها مخافَةَ حِسابِهِ ، ويَترُكُ حَرامَها مَخافَةَ عَذابِهِ .⁵

2748. Imam al-Sadiq (AS), when asked to define the ascetic, said, 'The ascetic is the one who renounces the permissible things in this world for fear of having to account for them, and renounces the forbidden things of this world for fear of punishment for them.' ⁶

2749.الإمامُ الرِّضا عليه السلام - لَمّا سُئلَ عن صِفَةِ الزاهِدِ - : مُتَبَلِّغٌ بِدُونِ قُوتِهِ ، مُستَعِدٌّ لِيَومِ مَوتِهِ ، مُتَبَرِّمٌ بحَياتِهِ .⁷

2749. Imam al-Rida (AS), when asked about the qualities of the ascetic, replied, 'He manages to still his hunger without pursuit of food, he is well-prepared for his death, and weary of his life in this world.' ⁸