(The book) ‘Al Tamhees’ – from Abdullah Bin Sinan who said, ‘Abu Abdullah -asws said: ‘The poverty is more adorning upon the Momin than the bridle is upon the cheek of the horse, and the last of the Prophets -as to enter the Paradise will be Suleyman -as , and that is due to what he -as had been Given from the world’’.
[38] 77- محص، التمحيص عَنِ ابْنِ دَرَّاجٍ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ع قَالَ: مَا سَدَّ اللَّهُ عَلَى مُؤْمِنٍ بَابَ رِزْقٍ إِلَّا فَتَحَ اللَّهُ لَهُ خَيْراً مِنْهُ (The book) ‘Al Tamhees’ – from Ibn Darraj, ‘From Abu Abdullah -asws having said: ‘Allah -azwj does not Close a door of sustenance upon a Momin except Allah -azwj Opens for him one better than it’. قَالَ ابْنُ أَبِي عُمَيْرٍ لَيْسَ يَعْنِي بِخَيْرٍ مِنْهُ أَكْثَرَ مِنْهُ وَ لَكِنْ يَعْنِي إِنْ كَانَ أَقَلَّ فَهُوَ خَيْرٌ لَهُ.
Ibn Abu Umeyr said, ‘He -asws didn’t mean ‘better than it’ as being more than it, but he -asws meant that it would be less, so it is better for him’’. [39] Some additional Ahadith on poverty are cited in Appendix. Appendix: Miscellaneous Ahadith on Poverty التمحيص عَنْ أَمِيرِ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ ع قَالَ: وُكِلَ الرِّزْقُ بِالْحُمْقِ وَ وُكِلَ الْحِرْمَانُ بِالْعَقْلِ وَ وُكِلَ الْبَلَاءُ بِالصَّبْرِ.
(The book) ‘Al Tamhees’ – ‘From Amir Al-Momineen -asws having said: ‘The sustenance is allocated with the foolishness, and the deprivation is allocated with the intellect, and the affliction is allocated with the patience’’. [40] – وَ قَالَ ع الْفَقْرُ يُخْرِسُ الْفَطِنَ عَنْ حُجَّتِهِ وَ الْمُقِلُّ غَرِيبٌ فِي بَلْدَتِهِ. And he -asws said: ‘The poverty mutes the intelligent from his argument, and the destitute is a stranger in his own city’’.
[41] عِدَّةُ الدَّاعِي قَالَ أَمِيرُ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ ع الْفَقْرُ خَيْرٌ لِلْمُؤْمِنِ مِنْ حَسَدِ الْجِيرَانِ وَ جَوْرِ السُّلْطَانِ وَ تَمَلُّقِ الْإِخْوَانِ. (The book) ‘Iddat Al Daie’ – ‘Amir Al-Momineen -asws said: ‘The poverty is better for the Momineen than envy of the neighbours, and tyranny of the ruler, and flattery of the brethren’’.