قَالَ أَمِيرُ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ ( عليه السلام ) إِنَّ عَلَامَةَ الرَّاغِبِ فِي ثَوَابِ الْآخِرَةِ زُهْدُهُ فِي عَاجِلِ زَهْرَةِ الدُّنْيَا أَمَا إِنَّ زُهْدَ الزَّاهِدِ فِي هَذِهِ الدُّنْيَا لَا يَنْقُصُهُ مِمَّا قَسَمَ اللَّهُ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ لَهُ فِيهَا وَ إِنْ زَهِدَ وَ إِنَّ حِرْصَ الْحَرِيصِ عَلَى عَاجِلِ زَهْرَةِ الْحَيَاةِ الدُّنْيَا لَا يَزِيدُهُ فِيهَا وَ إِنْ حَرَصَ فَالْمَغْبُونُ مَنْ حُرِمَ حَظَّهُ مِنَ الْآخِرَةِ .
Translation
Ali, from his father, from Ibn Mahboub, from Al A’ala Bin Razeyn, from Muhammad Bin Muslim, (It has been narrated) from Abu Abdullah<sup>asws</sup> having said: ‘Amir Al-Momineen<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘A sign of the one desirous of the Rewards of the Hereater is his ascetism in the present blossoms of the world. But, the ascetism of the ascetic in this world would not reduce for him from whatever Allah<sup>azwj</sup> Mighty and Majestic has Apportioned for him regarding it, and even if he was ascetic; and if he was covetous upon the present blossoms of the life of the world, it would not increase him in it, even if he was covetous. The cheated one is the one who is deprived of his share from the Hereafter’.
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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