“The practice of the exercises prescribed by the Shari’ah, the worships and the rites, and abstention from carnal desires and lusts, strengthen the human will power and resolution. On the other hand, immersion in sinful physical nature weakens human resolution and will.” SOURCE: FORTY HADITH | IMAM KHOMEINI (R)
The nightly prayer, it familiarizes man with…
“The nightly prayer, it familiarizes man with the worship and remembrance of Allah, bringing the unreal to the Real, and turning the heart towards the King of kings, stirring in it the love for the Beauty of the Real Beloved, and diminishing the attachment to and concern for the world and the Hereafter. Perhaps, if…
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The people who offer the nightly prayer…
“The people who offer the nightly prayer derive great enjoyment out of it, even more than the pleasure we derive from carnal enjoyments. The self becomes habituated through action, and goodness becomes enduring by becoming habitual. These worships have several advantages, one of them is that the form that they acquire in that world is…
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“Another great evil caused by the love of the world is that it keeps man from religious exercises, devotional rites, and prayers, and strengthens his physical nature. It inculcates disobedience within his physical nature to the commands of his spirit. As a result it weakens his power of resolution and debilitates the will, whereas one…
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The Holy Prophet (S) is reported to have said…
“The Holy Prophet (S) is reported to have said: The Dirham and the Dinar have destroyed many a people before you and they will destroy you too. Even if a person is not, supposedly, afflicted by other vices, which is improbable or rather impossible, the sole attachment to the world is sufficient to cause many…
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