hadith
3234
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Imam Ali (AS) said, O people! Renounce the pleasures of this world, for indeed its life is short and its goodness is insignificant. It is a house of [inevitable] departure a place of discomfort. It brings closer the appointed terms and cuts short aspirations. Indeed it turns away and shuns [those who are after it], it is unruly and stubborn, it cheats and betrays.
الإمامُ عليٌّ (عَلَيهِ الّسَلامُ) : يا أيُّها النَّاسُ ازْهَدُوا فِي الدُّنيا فَإنَّ عَيْشَها قَصيرٌ وَ خَيْرَها يَسيرٌ وَإنَّها لَدارُ شُخُوص وَ مَحَلَّةُ تَنْغيص وَ إنَّها لَتُدْني الآجالَ وَ تَقْطَعُ الآمالَ ألا وَ هيَ المُتَصَدِّيَةُ العَنُونُ والجامِحَةُ الحَرُونُ وَ المانِيَةُ (المائنةُ)الخَؤُونُ
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