Ghurar al-Ḥikam

Covetousness

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hadith 5629
Imam Ali (AS) said, Abasement, disgrace and wretchedness are in covetousness and greed.
الإمامُ عليٌّ (عَلَيهِ الّسَلامُ) : اَلمَذَلَّةُ وَ المَهانَةُ وَ الشَّقاءُ فِي الطَّمَعِ وَ الحِرْصِ
Tags Greed/Stinginess
hadith 5630
Imam Ali (AS) said, Covetousness makes one enter [into difficulties and humiliation] but does not make him return from it; and it gives a guarantee but does not fulfil it.
الإمامُ عليٌّ (عَلَيهِ الّسَلامُ) : اَلطَّمَعُ مُورِدٌ غَيْرُ مُصْدِر وَ ضامِنٌ غَيْرُ مُوف
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hadith 5631
Imam Ali (AS) said, The most destructive thing is covetousness.
الإمامُ عليٌّ (عَلَيهِ الّسَلامُ) : أهْلَكُ شَيْء الطَّمَعُ
Tags Greed/Stinginess
hadith 5632
Imam Ali (AS) said, The most harmful thing is covetousness.
الإمامُ عليٌّ (عَلَيهِ الّسَلامُ) : أضَرُّ شَيْء اَلطَّمَعُ
Tags Greed/Stinginess
hadith 5633
Imam Ali (AS) said, The ugliest of traits is covetousness.
الإمامُ عليٌّ (عَلَيهِ الّسَلامُ) : أقْبَحُ الشِّيَمِ اَلطَّمَعُ
Tags Greed/Stinginess
hadith 5634
Imam Ali (AS) said, The worst thing is covetousness.
الإمامُ عليٌّ (عَلَيهِ الّسَلامُ) : أسْوَءُ شَيْء اَلطَّمَعُ
Tags Greed/Stinginess
hadith 5635
Imam Ali (AS) said, The root of avarice is covetousness and its fruit is reproach.
الإمامُ عليٌّ (عَلَيهِ الّسَلامُ) : أصْلُ الشَّرَهِ اَلطَّمَعُ وَ ثَمَرَتُهُ اَلمَلامَةُ
Tags Greed/Stinginess
hadith 5636
Imam Ali (AS) said, He who covers himself with covetousness has degraded himself.
الإمامُ عليٌّ (عَلَيهِ الّسَلامُ) : أزْرى بِنَفْسهِ مَنِ اسْتَشْعَرَ الطَّمَعَ
Tags Greed/Stinginess
hadith 5637
Imam Ali (AS) said, The places where intellects become most deficient are under the flashes of greed.
الإمامُ عليٌّ (عَلَيهِ الّسَلامُ) : أكْثَرُ مَصارِعِ العُقُولِ تَحْتَ بُرُوقِ المَطامِعِ
Tags Greed/StinginessIntellect/Reason
hadith 5638
Imam Ali (AS) said, Covetousness is harmful.
الإمامُ عليٌّ (عَلَيهِ الّسَلامُ) : اَلطَّمَعُ مُضِرٌّ
Tags Greed/Stinginess
hadith 5639
Imam Ali (AS) said, Covetousness is an affliction.
الإمامُ عليٌّ (عَلَيهِ الّسَلامُ) : اَلطَّمَعُ مِحْنَةٌ
Tags Greed/Stinginess
hadith 5640
Imam Ali (AS) said, Covetousness is bondage.
الإمامُ عليٌّ (عَلَيهِ الّسَلامُ) : اَلطَّمَعُ رِقٌّ
Tags Greed/Stinginess
hadith 5641
Imam Ali (AS) said, Covetousness is indigence.
الإمامُ عليٌّ (عَلَيهِ الّسَلامُ) : اَلطَّمَعُ فَقْرٌ
Tags Greed/Stinginess
hadith 5642
Imam Ali (AS) said, Covetousness humiliates while piety exalts.
الإمامُ عليٌّ (عَلَيهِ الّسَلامُ) : اَلطَّمَعُ مُذِلٌّ اَلوَرَعُ مُجِلٌّ
Tags Greed/StinginessGod-consciousness/Piety
hadith 5643
Imam Ali (AS) said, Covetousness is the beginning of evil.
الإمامُ عليٌّ (عَلَيهِ الّسَلامُ) : اَلطَّمَعُ أوَّلُ الشَّرِّ
Tags Greed/Stinginess
hadith 5644
Imam Ali (AS) said, Covetousness is a besieging (or and evident) indigence.
الإمامُ عليٌّ (عَلَيهِ الّسَلامُ) : اَلطَّمَعُ فَقْرٌ حاصِرٌ (ظاهِرٌ)
Tags Greed/Stinginess
hadith 5645
Imam Ali (AS) said, Covetousness is a present humiliation.
الإمامُ عليٌّ (عَلَيهِ الّسَلامُ) : اَلطَّمَعُ مَذَلَّةٌ حاضِرَةٌ
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hadith 5646
Imam Ali (AS) said, With covetousness comes humiliation.
الإمامُ عليٌّ (عَلَيهِ الّسَلامُ) : الذُّلُّ مَعَ الطَّمَعِ
Tags Greed/Stinginess
hadith 5647
Imam Ali (AS) said, Coveted objects humiliate men.
الإمامُ عليٌّ (عَلَيهِ الّسَلامُ) : اَلمَطامِعُ تُذِلُّ الرِّجالَ
Tags Greed/Stinginess
hadith 5648
Imam Ali (AS) said, Covetousness is endless bondage.
الإمامُ عليٌّ (عَلَيهِ الّسَلامُ) : اَلطَّمَعُ رِقٌّ مُخَلَّدٌ
Tags Greed/Stinginess
hadith 5649
Imam Ali (AS) said, Covetousness debases the commander.
الإمامُ عليٌّ (عَلَيهِ الّسَلامُ) : اَلطَّمَعُ يُذِلُّ الأميرَ
Tags Greed/Stinginess
hadith 5650
Imam Ali (AS) said, If you give in to covetousness, it will destroy you.
الإمامُ عليٌّ (عَلَيهِ الّسَلامُ) : إنْ أطَعْتَ الطَّمَعَ أرْداكَ
Tags Greed/Stinginess
hadith 5651
Imam Ali (AS) said, Through avidities the necks of men are lowered [in humiliation].
الإمامُ عليٌّ (عَلَيهِ الّسَلامُ) : بِالأطْماعِ تَذِلُّ رِقابُ الرِّجالِ
Tags Greed/Stinginess
hadith 5652
Imam Ali (AS) said, How bad a companion of religion covetousness is!
الإمامُ عليٌّ (عَلَيهِ الّسَلامُ) : بِئْسَ قَرينُ الدّينِ الطَّمَعُ
Tags Greed/StinginessGod-consciousness/Piety
hadith 5653
Imam Ali (AS) said, The fruit of covetousness is wretchedness.
الإمامُ عليٌّ (عَلَيهِ الّسَلامُ) : ثَمَرَةُ الطَّمَعِ الشَّقاءُ
Tags Greed/Stinginess
hadith 5654
Imam Ali (AS) said, The fruit of covetousness is humiliation in this world and the Hereafter.
الإمامُ عليٌّ (عَلَيهِ الّسَلامُ) : ثَمَرةُ الطَّمَعِ ذُلُّ الدُّنيا والآخِرَةِ
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hadith 5655
Imam Ali (AS) said, Abandon covetousness and greediness and cling to chastity and piety.
الإمامُ عليٌّ (عَلَيهِ الّسَلامُ) : ذَرِ الطَّمَعَ وَ الشَّرَهَ وَ عَلَيْكَ بِلُزُومِ العِفَّةِ والوَرَعِ
Tags Greed/StinginessChastity/ModestyGod-consciousness/Piety
hadith 5656
Imam Ali (AS) said, The abasement of men is in the things they covet and the passing away of lifetimes is in [following] the deceptions of [false] hopes.
الإمامُ عليٌّ (عَلَيهِ الّسَلامُ) : ذُلُّ الرِّجالِ فِي المَطامِعِ وَفِناءُ الآجالِ في غُرُورِ الآمالِ
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hadith 5657
Imam Ali (AS) said, The cornerstone of piety is abandoning covetousness.
الإمامُ عليٌّ (عَلَيهِ الّسَلامُ) : رَأسُ الوَرَعِ تَرْكُ الطَّمَعِ
Tags Greed/StinginessGod-consciousness/Piety
hadith 5658
Imam Ali (AS) said, Sometimes there is a false ambition for an unseen (or lost) hope.
الإمامُ عليٌّ (عَلَيهِ الّسَلامُ) : رُبَّ طَمَع كاذِب لأمَل غائِب (خائِب)
Tags Greed/Stinginess
hadith 5659
Imam Ali (AS) said, Embarking on avidities cuts off the necks of men.
الإمامُ عليٌّ (عَلَيهِ الّسَلامُ) : رُكُوبُ الأطْماعِ يَقْطَعُ رِقابَ الرِّجالِ
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hadith 5660
Imam Ali (AS) said, The cause of corruption of certitude is covetousness.
الإمامُ عليٌّ (عَلَيهِ الّسَلامُ) : سَبَبُ فَسادِ اليَقينِ الطَّمَعُ
Tags Greed/StinginessCertainty (Yaqin)
hadith 5661
Imam Ali (AS) said, The cause of corruption of piety is covetousness.
الإمامُ عليٌّ (عَلَيهِ الّسَلامُ) : سَبَبُ فَسادِ الوَرَعِ الطَّمَعُ
Tags Greed/StinginessGod-consciousness/Piety
hadith 5662
Imam Ali (AS) said, Oppose covetousness with piety.
الإمامُ عليٌّ (عَلَيهِ الّسَلامُ) : ضادُّوا الطَّمَعَ بِالوَرَعِ
Tags Greed/StinginessGod-consciousness/Piety
hadith 5663
Imam Ali (AS) said, The servant of the coveted is enslaved and never gains his freedom.
الإمامُ عليٌّ (عَلَيهِ الّسَلامُ) : عَبْدُ المَطامِعِ مُسْتَرَّقٌ لايَجِدُ أبَداً العِتْقَ
Tags Greed/Stinginess
hadith 5664
Imam Ali (AS) said, He who instils covetousness in his soul has deceived it.
الإمامُ عليٌّ (عَلَيهِ الّسَلامُ) : غَشَّ نَفْسَهُ مَنْ شَرَّبَها الطَّمَعَ
Tags Greed/StinginessSoul (Nafs)
hadith 5665
Imam Ali (AS) said, The corruption of religion is [caused by] covetousness.
الإمامُ عليٌّ (عَلَيهِ الّسَلامُ) : فَسادُ الدِّينِ الطَّمَعُ
Tags Greed/Stinginess
hadith 5666
Imam Ali (AS) said, Covetousness has been paired with humiliation.
الإمامُ عليٌّ (عَلَيهِ الّسَلامُ) : قُرِنَ الطَّمَعُ بِالذُّلِّ
Tags Greed/Stinginess
hadith 5667
Imam Ali (AS) said, One who trades covetousness for loss of hope [and desire for what others posses], the people will not treat him with contempt.
الإمامُ عليٌّ (عَلَيهِ الّسَلامُ) : مَنْ باعَ الطَّمَعَ بِاليَأْسِ لَمْ يَسْتَطِلْ عَلَيْهِ النّاسُ
Tags Greed/StinginessContentment (Qana'ah)
hadith 5668
Imam Ali (AS) said, How good an aide of hope ambition is!
الإمامُ عليٌّ (عَلَيهِ الّسَلامُ) : نِعْمَ عَوْنُ الأمَلِ الطَّمَعُ
Tags Greed/Stinginess
hadith 5669
Imam Ali (AS) said, The trouble for religion is covetousness and its rectitude is [in] piety.
الإمامُ عليٌّ (عَلَيهِ الّسَلامُ) : نَكَدُ الدّينِ الطَّمَعُ وَ صَلاحُهُ الوَرَعُ
Tags Greed/StinginessGod-consciousness/Piety
hadith 5670
Imam Ali (AS) said, We seek Allahs protection from lowly coveted things and the ambitions that are disliked [by Him].
الإمامُ عليٌّ (عَلَيهِ الّسَلامُ) : نَعُوذُ بِاللّهِ مِنَ المَطامِعِ الدَّنِيَّةِ وَ الهِمَمِ الغَيْرِ المَرْضِيَّةِ
Tags Greed/StinginessSupplication
hadith 5671
Imam Ali (AS) said, Do not covet that which you do not deserve.
الإمامُ عليٌّ (عَلَيهِ الّسَلامُ) : لاتَطْمَعْ فيما لا تَسْتَحِقُّ
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hadith 5672
Imam Ali (AS) said, Never let covetousness enslave you and be averse [to the pleasures of this world].
الإمامُ عليٌّ (عَلَيهِ الّسَلامُ) : لايَسْتَرِقَّنَّكَ الطَّمَعُ وَكُنْ عَزُوفاً
Tags Greed/StinginessAsceticism
hadith 5673
Imam Ali (AS) said, Never let yourself covet that which is above your needs thereby letting it overcome you with the desire for more.
الإمامُ عليٌّ (عَلَيهِ الّسَلامُ) : لاتُطْمِعَنَّ نَفْسَكَ فيما فَوْقَ الكَفافِ فَيَغْلِبَكَ بِالزِّيادَةِ
Tags Greed/StinginessContentment (Qana'ah)
hadith 5674
Imam Ali (AS) said, Do not let covetousness enslave you while Allah has made you free.
الإمامُ عليٌّ (عَلَيهِ الّسَلامُ) : لايَسْتَرِقَّنَّكَ الطَّمَعُ وَقَدْ جَعَلَكَ اللّهُ حُرّاً
Tags Greed/Stinginess
hadith 5675
Imam Ali (AS) said, Nothing corrupts religion like covetousness.
الإمامُ عليٌّ (عَلَيهِ الّسَلامُ) : لايُفْسِدُ الدّينَ كَالطَّمَعِ
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hadith 5676
Imam Ali (AS) said, There is no quality more abased than covetousness.
الإمامُ عليٌّ (عَلَيهِ الّسَلامُ) : لاشيمَةَ أذَلُّ مِنَ الطَّمَعِ
Tags Greed/Stinginess
hadith 5677
Imam Ali (AS) said, There is no humiliation greater than covetousness.
الإمامُ عليٌّ (عَلَيهِ الّسَلامُ) : لاذُلَّ أعْظَمُ مِنَ الطَّمَعِ
Tags Greed/Stinginess
hadith 5678
Imam Ali (AS) said, A little covetousness corrupts a lot of piety.
الإمامُ عليٌّ (عَلَيهِ الّسَلامُ) : يَسيرُ الطَّمَعِ يُفْسِدُ كَثيرَ الوَرَعِ
Tags Greed/StinginessGod-consciousness/Piety
hadith 5679
Imam Ali (AS) said, Cupidity corrupts piety and licentiousness [corrupts] God-wariness.
الإمامُ عليٌّ (عَلَيهِ الّسَلامُ) : يُفْسِدُ الطَّمَعُ الوَرَعَ وَ الفُجُورُ التَّقْوى
Tags Greed/StinginessGod-consciousness/Piety
hadith 5680
Imam Ali (AS) said, Freedom from the captivity of covetousness is [gained] by acquiring loss of hope [in people].
الإمامُ عليٌّ (عَلَيهِ الّسَلامُ) : اَلخَلاصُ مِنْ أسْرِ الطَّمَعِ بِاكْتِسابِ اليَأسِ
Tags Greed/StinginessContentment (Qana'ah)
hadith 5681
Imam Ali (AS) said, Covetousness is one of the two abasements.
الإمامُ عليٌّ (عَلَيهِ الّسَلامُ) : اَلطَّمَعُ أحَدُ الذُلَّيْنِ
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hadith 5682
Imam Ali (AS) said, One who clings to covetousness is deprived of piety.
الإمامُ عليٌّ (عَلَيهِ الّسَلامُ) : مَنْ لَزِمَ الطَّمَعَ عَدِمَ الوَرَعَ
Tags Greed/StinginessGod-consciousness/Piety
hadith 5683
Imam Ali (AS) said, Whoever takes covetousness as his attire, it makes him swallow failure repeatedly.
الإمامُ عليٌّ (عَلَيهِ الّسَلامُ) : مَنِ اتَّخَذَ الطَّمَعَ شِعاراً جَرَّعَتْهُ الخَيْبَةُ مِراراً
Tags Greed/Stinginess
hadith 5684
Imam Ali (AS) said, One who entertains the hope of [fulfilment of] false cupidity, the grant [which he receives] belies him.
الإمامُ عليٌّ (عَلَيهِ الّسَلامُ) : مَنْ حَدَّثَ نَفْسَهُ بِكاذِبِ الطَّمَعِ كَذَّبَتْهُ العَطِيَّةُ
Tags Greed/Stinginess
hadith 5685
Imam Ali (AS) said, 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.
الإمامُ عليٌّ (عَلَيهِ الّسَلامُ) : مَنْ لَمْ يُنَزِّهْ نَفْسَهُ عَنْ دَناءَةِ المَطامِعِ فَقَدْ أذَلَّ نَفْسَهُ وَ هُوَ فِي الآخِرَةِ أذَلُّ وَ أَخْزى
Tags Greed/StinginessSoul (Nafs)
hadith 5686
Imam Ali (AS) said, A little cupidity corrupts a lot of piety.
الإمامُ عليٌّ (عَلَيهِ الّسَلامُ) : قَليلُ الطَّمَعِ يُفْسِدُ كَثيرَ الوَرَعِ
Tags Greed/StinginessGod-consciousness/Piety
hadith 5687
Imam Ali (AS) said, Excessive covetousness is the symbol of lack of piety.
الإمامُ عليٌّ (عَلَيهِ الّسَلامُ) : كَثْرَةُ الطَّمَعِ عُنْوانُ قِلَّةِ الوَرَعِ
Tags Greed/StinginessGod-consciousness/Piety
hadith 5688
Imam Ali (AS) said, One who is possessed by covetousness is humiliated.
الإمامُ عليٌّ (عَلَيهِ الّسَلامُ) : مَنْ مَلَكَهُ الطَّمَعُ ذَلَّ
Tags Greed/Stinginess
hadith 5690
Imam Ali (AS) said, One whose covetousness increases, his downfall becomes greater.
الإمامُ عليٌّ (عَلَيهِ الّسَلامُ) : مَنْ كَثُرَ طَمَعُهُ عَظُمَ مَصْرَعُهُ
Tags Greed/Stinginess
hadith 5691
Imam Ali (AS) said, Every coveter is a prisoner [of his desires].
الإمامُ عليٌّ (عَلَيهِ الّسَلامُ) : كُلُّ طامِع أسيرٌ
Tags Greed/Stinginess
hadith 5692
Imam Ali (AS) said, How many a coveter covets pardon.
الإمامُ عليٌّ (عَلَيهِ الّسَلامُ) : كَمْ مِنْ طامِع بِالصَّفْحِ عَنْهُ
Tags Greed/StinginessForgiveness
hadith 5693
Imam Ali (AS) said, One who covets becomes abased and undergoes hardship.
الإمامُ عليٌّ (عَلَيهِ الّسَلامُ) : مَنْ طَمِعَ ذَلَّ وَ تَعَنّى
Tags Greed/Stinginess
hadith 5694
Imam Ali (AS) said, There is none more abased than a coveter.
الإمامُ عليٌّ (عَلَيهِ الّسَلامُ) : لا أذَلَّ مِنْ طامِع
Tags Greed/Stinginess
hadith 5695
Imam Ali (AS) said, The most indigent of people is the coveter.
الإمامُ عليٌّ (عَلَيهِ الّسَلامُ) : أفْقَرُ النّاسِ الطّامِعُ
Tags Greed/Stinginess
hadith 5696
Imam Ali (AS) said, The most humiliated of all people is the greedy, suspicious, coveter.
الإمامُ عليٌّ (عَلَيهِ الّسَلامُ) : أعْظَمُ النّاسِ ذُلاًّ الطّامِعُ الحَريصُ المُريبُ
Tags Greed/Stinginess
hadith 5697
Imam Ali (AS) said, The coveter is forever abased.
الإمامُ عليٌّ (عَلَيهِ الّسَلامُ) : اَلطّامِعُ أبَداً ذَليلٌ
Tags Greed/Stinginess
hadith 5698
Imam Ali (AS) said, The coveter is forever in the shackles of disgrace.
الإمامُ عليٌّ (عَلَيهِ الّسَلامُ) : اَلطَّامِعُ أبَداً في وِثاقِ الذُّلِّ
Tags Greed/Stinginess