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Ameer al-Momineen (a.s) said: “Poverty will disable your tongue from reasoning. One who is poor is like a stranger in his own town. Blessed be –Tooba- those who remember the Resurrection, and work in such a way that they are prepared for the Reckoning, and are content with the minimum necessities. Being needless where you are a stranger is like having a town to which you belong. Being poor in your own town is like being a stranger where you live. Contentment is like wealth that never ends. Poverty is like the greatest death. Indeed the Almighty God has established a portion of the food for the poor in the wealth of the rich. Therefore no poor person will stay hungry unless a rich person deprives him of his portion. How nice is it if a rich man is humble to a poor man when he requests a reward that is near the Almighty God. It is even nicer when the poor maintain their pride near the rich and rely on God.”
قال أمير المؤمنين (عليه السلام): الفقر يخرس الفطن عن حجته، والمقل غريب في بلدته، طوبى لمن ذكر المعاد وعمل للحساب وقنع بالكفاف، الغنى في الغربة وطن، والفقر في الوطن غربة، القناعة مال لا ينفد، الفقر الموت الأكبر، إن الله سبحانه وتعالى فرض في أموال الأغنياء أقوات الفقراء، فما جاع فقير إلا بما منع غني، ما أحسن تواضع الأغنياء للفقراء طلبا لما عند الله عز وجل وأحسن منه تيه الفقراء على الأغنياء اتكالا على الله.
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