Home / Books / Mīzān al-Ḥikma / Volume 1 / The Root of Self-Restraint / Hadith 3724 hadith 3724 ۞ Imam Ali (AS) said, ‘The root of self-restraint is contentment, and its fruit is fewer sorrows. الإمامُ عليٌّ (عَلَيهِ الّسَلامُ): أصلُ العَفافِ القَناعَةُ، وثَمَرَتُها قِلَّةُ الأحزانِ. Similar narrations Ghurar al-Ḥikam #8394 Imam Ali (AS) said, Indeed contentment and overcoming lustful desires are from the greatest forms of abstinence. All narrations in The Root of Self-Restraint Browse all books Search more hadith
hadith 3724 ۞ Imam Ali (AS) said, ‘The root of self-restraint is contentment, and its fruit is fewer sorrows. الإمامُ عليٌّ (عَلَيهِ الّسَلامُ): أصلُ العَفافِ القَناعَةُ، وثَمَرَتُها قِلَّةُ الأحزانِ.