“It should be remembered that the desires of the carnal self are numerous and of diverse kinds… Sometimes they are so subtle that one is not aware of them as suspect wiles of Satan and of the self, unless one is made conscious and waken up. With all their variety, all of them work together…
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“My dear, remember that desires are endless and ever insatiable.”   SOURCE: FORTY HADITH | IMAM KHOMEINI (R)    

“Imam al-Sadiq (A) is reported to have said: Be apprehensive of your desires in the same way as you are apprehensive of your enemies. For there is no greater enemy for human beings than their own desires and what their tongues reap.” SOURCE: FORTY HADITH | IMAM KHOMEINI (R)

“A person who had espoused these three faculties [Desire, Anger and the faculty of imagination] since the initial stages of his life, having developed and grown with them, if he is influenced and trained by means of the teachings of the prophets and instructions of scholars and sages, gradually submitting himself to the educative influence…
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“If man is not influenced by an instructor or guide, after having grown and reached the age of maturity he becomes a beast of uncommon rarity which surpasses all other beasts and devils in the above-mentioned qualities [Desire, Anger and the faculty of imagination], becoming only stronger and more completely devilish and bestial. If he…
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