How can one be a scholar who is angry with His livelihood...

How can one be a scholar who is angry with His livelihood and debases His Dignity, while he knows that it is from the knowledge and the power of Allah? How can one be a scholar, who accuses Allah regarding what He has destined for him, so he is not satisfied with what reaches him!? How can one be a scholar, who prefers this world to the other world, turns to this world and likes the things that harm him more than the things that benefit him!?

How can one be a scholar who seeks words ( kalam ) in order to report them, but does not seek to put them into practice?’”[^22] Jesus (‘a) said, “How can some one benefit himself while he trades himself for all that is in this world, then he abandons the inheritance which he has traded to others and destroys himself? But blessed be the man who purifies himself and prefers his soul to everything of this world.”[^23] Jesus (‘a) said, “Woe to the companion of the world!

How he dies and leaves it, and how he relies on it and it deceives him, and how he trusts it and it forsakes him! Woe unto those who are deceived! How that which is repugnant encompasses them and that which is beloved separates from them! And that which is promised will come to them. And woe to those whose endeavors are only for the world and error.

How he will be disgraced before Allah tomorrow!”[^24] Verily, Jesus (‘a) said, “Why do you come to me clothed in the clothing of monks while your hearts are those of ferocious wolves? You should be clothed in the clothing of kings, and soften your hearts with…