Indeed the judicious person is one who does not get beguiled by deceptions.
Indeed the judicious person is one who does not get beguiled by deceptions. 13ـ إنَّ الحازِمَ مَنْ لا يَغْتَـرَّ بِالخُدَعِ.
Verily the judicious person is one who occupies himself with struggling against his [lower] self, thereby rectifying it and preventing it from indulging in its vain desires and pleasures, thus he attains mastery over it; and verily for the intelligent one there is a preoccupation in keeping himself away from [that which is impermissible of] this world, its contents and its people.
14ـ إنَّ الحازِمَ مَنْ شَغَلَ نَفْسَهُ بِجِهادِ نَفْسِهِ، فَأصْلَحَها، وحَبَسَها عَنْ أهْوِيَتِها ولَذّاتِها فَمَلَكَها، وإنَّ لِلْعاقِلِ بِنَفْسِهِ عَنِ الدُّنيا وَما فيها وأهْلِها شُغْلاً. Verily the judicious person is one who restrains his [lower] self by taking it to account, and controls it with rage (or by overcoming it), and kills it by fighting against it. 15ـ إنَّ الحازِمَ مَنْ قَيـَّدَ نَفْسَهُ بِالمُحاسَبَةِ، ومَلَكَها بِالمُغاضَبَةِ (بِالمُغالَبَةِ)، وقَتَلَها بِالمُجاهَدَةِ.
The judicious one is alert, the negligent one is sleepy. 16ـ اَلحازِمُ يَقْظانٌ، اَلغافِلُ وَسْنانٌ. The judicious person is one who does not harm others. 17ـ اَلْحازِمُ مَنْ كَفَّ أذاهُ. The judicious person is one who discards [excessive] expenses and luxuries. 18ـ اَلْحازِمُ مَنِ اطَّرَحَ المَؤُنَ، والكُلَفَ. The judicious person is one who abandons this world for the sake of the Hereafter. 19ـ اَلحازِمُ مَنْ تَرَكَ الدُّنيا لِلآخِرَةِ.
The judicious is one who eschews extravagance and loathes waste. 20ـ اَلحازِمُ مَنْ تَجَنَّبَ التَّبْذيرَ، وَعافَ السَّـرَفَ. Only he is judicious whose preoccupation is entirely with himself, whose concern is entirely for his religion, and whose struggle is entirely for his Hereafter. 21ـ إنَّما الحازِمُ مَنْ كانَ بِنَفْسِهِ كُلُّ شُغْلِهِ، ولِدينِهِ كُلُّ هَمِّهِ، وَلآخِرَتِهِ كُلُّ جِدِّهِ. Many a young person is more judicious than an old person. 22ـ رُبَّ صَغير أحْزَمُ مِنْ كَبير.
The weapon of a judicious person is precaution. 23ـ سِلاحُ الحازِمِ الاِسْتِظْهارُ. In every action of the judicious person, there is merit. 24ـ لِلْحازِمِ في كُلِّ فِعْل فَضْلٌ. The intellect of the judicious one acts as a deterrent from every demerit. 25ـ لِلْحازِمِ مِنْ عَقْلِهِ عَنْ كُلِّ دَنِيَّة زاجِرٌ. The judicious one does not become perplexed in times of adversity. 26ـ لايَدْهَشُ عِنْدَ البَلاءِ اَلحازِمُ.
He who does not give generously from what he has and does not advance (or save) his work of today for his morrow[^1] is not a judicious person.
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