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Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim, Exalted Aphorisms And Pearls Of Speech Vain Desire Vain desire-الهوى Overcome your vain desires and flee from them, for indeed if they capture you they will take you into the farthest depths of destruction. 1ـ اِغْلِبُوا أهْوائَـكُمْ، وهارِبُوها، فَإنَّها إنْ تُقَيِّدْكُمْ تُورِدْكُمْ مِنَ الهَلَكَةِ أبْعَدَ غايَة.

Beware of allowing vain desire to gain control over you for indeed its beginning is temptation and its end is tribulation. 2ـ إيّاكُمْ وتَمَكُّنَ الهَوى مِنْكُمْ، فَإنَّ أوَّلَهُ فِتْنَةٌ، وآخِرَهُ مِحْنَةٌ. Indeed, the thing I fear most for you is [the result of your] following vain desires and having lengthy aspirations. 3ـ اَلا وإنَّ أخْوَفَ ما أخافُ عَلَيْكُمْ اِتِّباعُ الهَوى، وطُولُ الأمَلِ. Vain desire destroys. 4ـ اَلْهَوى يُرْدي. Vain desires are passions of youth. 5ـ اَلْهَوى صَبْوَةٌ.

Vain desire is the enemy of reason. 6ـ اَلْهَوى عَدُّوُ العَقْلِ. Vain desire is the bane of the intellects. 7ـ اَلْهَوى آفَةُ الألْبابِ. Vain desire is an obeyed enemy. 8ـ اَلْهَوى عَدُوٌّ مَتْبُوعٌ. Verily if you follow your vain desire, it will make you deaf and blind, ruin your place of [final] return and destroy you. 9ـ إنَّكَ إنْ أطَعْتَ هَواكَ أصَمَّكَ وأعْماكَ وأفْسَدَ مُنْقَلَبَكَ وَأرْداكَ. Verily if you allow vain desire rule over you, it will deafen you, blind you and destroy you.

10ـ إنَّكُمْ إنْ أمَّرْتُمْ عَلَيْكُمُ الهَوى أصَمَّكُمْ، وأعْماكُمْ، وَأرْداكُمْ. The bane of the intellect is vain desire. 11ـ آفَةُ العَقْلِ اَلْهَوى. When your vain desires overcome you, they drag you into places of destruction. 12ـ إذا غَلَبَتْ عَلَيْكُمْ أهْوائُـكُمْ أوْرَدَتْكُمْ مَوارِدَ الهَلَكَةِ. Oppose vain desire and you will be safe; turn away from this world and you will benefit. 13ـ خالِفِ الهَوى تَسْلَمْ، وأعْرِضْ عَنِ الدُّنْيا تَغْنَمْ.

May Allah have mercy upon the person who fights his vain desire and breaks loose from the entanglements of this world. 14ـ رَحِمَ اللّهُ امْرَءاً غالَبَ الهَوى وأفْلَتَ مِنْ حَبائِلِ الدُّنْيا. The cornerstone of religion is opposing vain desire. 15ـ رَأْسُ الدّينِ مُخالَفَةُ الهَوى. The cornerstone of reason is struggling against vain desire. 16ـ رَأْسُ العَقْلِ مُجاهَدَةُ الهَوى. Deterring [the self from] vain desire is a trait of the intelligent ones. 17ـ رَدْعُ الهَوى شيمَةُ العُقَلاءِ.