48ـ لاشيمَةَ أذَلُّ مِنَ الطَّمَعِ.

48ـ لاشيمَةَ أذَلُّ مِنَ الطَّمَعِ. There is no humiliation greater than covetousness. 49ـ لاذُلَّ أعْظَمُ مِنَ الطَّمَعِ. A little covetousness corrupts a lot of piety. 50ـ يَسيرُ الطَّمَعِ يُفْسِدُ كَثيرَ الوَرَعِ. Cupidity corrupts piety and licentiousness [corrupts] God-wariness. 51ـ يُفْسِدُ الطَّمَعُ الوَرَعَ، والفُجُورُ التَّقْوى. Freedom from the captivity of covetousness is [gained] by acquiring loss of hope [in people]. 52ـ اَلخَلاصُ مِنْ أسْرِ الطَّمَعِ بِاكْتِسابِ اليَأسِ.

Covetousness is one of the two abasements. 53ـ اَلطَّمَعُ أحَدُ الذُلَّيْنِ. One who clings to covetousness is deprived of piety. 54ـ مَنْ لَزِمَ الطَّمَعَ عَدِمَ الوَرَعَ. Whoever takes covetousness as his attire, it makes him swallow failure repeatedly. 55ـ مَنِ اتَّخَذَ الطَّمَعَ شِعاراً جَرَّعَتْهُ الخَيْبَةُ مِراراً. One who entertains the hope of [fulfilment of] false cupidity, the grant [which he receives] belies him. 56ـ مَنْ حَدَّثَ نَفْسَهُ بِكاذِبِ الطَّمَعِ كَذَّبَتْهُ العَطِيَّةُ.

One who does not purify his soul from the lowliness of the coveted has actually abased himself and shall be even more abased and disgraced in the Hereafter. 57ـ مَنْ لَمْ يُنَزِّهْ نَفْسَهُ عَنْ دَناءَةِ المَطامِعِ فَقَدْ أذَلَّ نَفْسَهُ، وهُوَ فِي الآخِرَةِ أذَلُّ وأَخْزى. A little cupidity corrupts a lot of piety. 58ـ قَليلُ الطَّمَعِ يُفْسِدُ كَثيرَ الوَرَعِ. Excessive covetousness is the symbol of lack of piety. 59ـ كَثْرَةُ الطَّمَعِ عُنْوانُ قِلَّةِ الوَرَعِ.

One who is possessed by covetousness is humiliated. 60ـ مَنْ مَلَكَهُ الطَّمَعُ ذَلَّ. One who clings to covetousness is deprived of piety. 61ـ مَنْ لَزِمَ الطَّمَعَ عَدِمَ الوَرَعَ. One whose covetousness increases, his downfall becomes greater. 62ـ مَنْ كَثُرَ طَمَعُهُ عَظُمَ مَصْرَعُهُ. Every coveter is a prisoner [of his desires]. 63ـ كُلُّ طامِع أسيرٌ. How many a coveter covets pardon. 64ـ كَمْ مِنْ طامِع بِالصَّفْحِ عَنْهُ. One who covets becomes abased and undergoes hardship.

65ـ مَنْ طَمِعَ ذَلَّ وتَعَنّى. There is none more abased than a coveter. 66ـ لا أذَلَّ مِنْ طامِع. The most indigent of people is the coveter. 67ـ أفْقَرُ النّاسِ الطّامِعُ. The most humiliated of all people is the greedy, suspicious, coveter. 68ـ أعْظَمُ النّاسِ ذُلاًّ الطّامِعُ الحَريصُ المُريبُ. The coveter is forever abased. 69ـ اَلطّامِعُ أبَداً ذَليلٌ. The coveter is forever in the shackles of disgrace. 70ـ اَلطَّامِعُ أبَداً في وِثاقِ الذُّلِّ. Previous…