5 - Amassing wealth and being stingy in expense...

5 - Amassing wealth and being stingy in expense: The Holy Quran says: and as for those who hoard up gold and silver and do not spend it in Allah's way, announce to them a painful chastisement on the Day when it shall be heated in the fire of hell, then their foreheads and their backs shall be branded with it; this is what you hoarded up for yourselves, therefore taste what you hoarded. 6 - Selling the Hereafter in exchange of this world: This has been condemned.

The opposite of it has been praised as we read in the Holy Quran: These are they who buy the life of this world for the Hereafter, so their chastisement shall not be lightened nor shall they be helped. And in narrations too we read: Do not buy this world in exchange of your Hereafter. 7 - Extravagance: it is said in the Quran: eat of its fruit when it bears fruit, and pay the due of it on the day of its reaping, and do not act extravagantly; surely He does not love the extravagant.

Difference between extravagance and waste: Waste applies to mindless expending and it is extravagance when the expending is more than the limit of moderation. 8 - Restraint in spending: Hazrat Ali (a.s.) says: O son of Adam: In whatever you have earned beyond your needs, you are a trustee treasurer of other.

9 - Not to rely on the world: Surely those who do not dope in our meeting and are pleased with this worlds life and are content with it, and those who are heedless of our communications: As for those, their abode is the fire because of what they earned. Praise for benefiting from the permissible things in the world Hazrat Ali (a.s.) once heard a man condemning the world.

He said: O the one who condemns the world who has been tricked by the conspiracies of the world and has been fooled by its deceptions! Do you get deceived by the world and again condemn it? Know that the world is the house of truth, for the one who can understand, it is a centre of needlessness for the one who saves from it and it is a place of advice and admonition for the one who has the qualification for getting admonition.

It is the place for prostration for the friends of God and a place of seeking pardon of God for the angles of God and the place for the coming down of the Divine Revelation and a trade center for the companions of God who earned Divine mercy therein and profited by paradise. The world which is beneficial for the Hereafter The Holy Prophet (s.a.w.s.) said: Being needless is good and befitting for the God fearing.