Treatment of Greed • It is necessary to keep in mind the...
Treatment of Greed • It is necessary to keep in mind the disadvantages and the worldly and religious inconveniences of greed and to remember that man will be interrogated about the legally gotten pleasures of this world, punished for the illegally gotten, and blamed for the suspicious.
●It is necessary to ponder over the aforementioned virtues of satisfaction, contemplating the life accounts of the great personalities, such as the prophets, their successors, and the saints, especially in the field of asceticism. • It is advisable to avoid looking enviously to the richer ones and those who enjoy false luxuries of this world, and to consider the less rich.
●It is necessary to achieve living moderation, for it is the most important factor that contributes in alleviating the tension of greed. Imam as-Sadiq (a) said: “I guarantee for the moderate that he will not see poverty.” [^1]: Quoted from Nahj ul-Balagha. [^2]: Eblis is the name of the Devil.
[^3]: Quoted from al-Wafi; part 3 page 152 (quoted from al-Kafi.) [^4]: Quoted from al-Wafi; 3/154 (as quoted from as-Saduq’s Men la Yahdhuruh ul-Faqih.) [^5]: Quoted from Mir’aat ul-Uqoul; 2 (The Explanation of al- Majlisi’s al-Kafi) as quoted from al-Kafi; page 303. Previous…
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