“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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There is a tradition in al-Kafi, reported on the authority of…
“There is a tradition in al-Kafi, reported on the authority of Talhah ibn Zayd, from Abu ‘Abd Allah Imam al-Sadiq (A) that he said: The example of the world is that of sea water; the more a thirsty person drinks from it, the thirstier he becomes, until it kills him. The love of the world…
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All the human transgressions, sins, and moral vices are on account of…
“All the human transgressions, sins, and moral vices are on account of this love and attachment, as mentioned in the Hadith quoted from Al-Kafi. One of the greatest evils of this love, according to our Shaykh-my soul be sacrificed for him – is that if the love of the world captures the human heart and…
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