قَالَ أَبُو جَعْفَرٍ ( عليه السلام ) مَثَلُ الْحَرِيصِ عَلَى الدُّنْيَا مَثَلُ دُودَةِ الْقَزِّ كُلَّمَا ازْدَادَتْ مِنَ الْقَزِّ عَلَى نَفْسِهَا لَفّاً كَانَ أَبْعَدَ لَهَا مِنَ الْخُرُوجِ حَتَّى تَمُوتَ غَمّاً وَ قَالَ أَبُو عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) أَغْنَى الْغِنَى مَنْ لَمْ يَكُنْ لِلْحِرْصِ أَسِيراً وَ قَالَ لَا تُشْعِرُوا قُلُوبَكُمُ الِاشْتِغَالَ بِمَا قَدْ فَاتَ فَتَشْغَلُوا أَذْهَانَكُمْ عَنِ الِاسْتِعْدَادِ لِمَا لَمْ يَأْتِ .
Translation
Ali Bin Ibrahim, from Muhammad Bin Isa, from Yahya Bin Uqba Al Azdy, (It has been narrated) from Abu Abdullah<sup>asws</sup> that ‘Abu Ja’far<sup>asws</sup> having said: An example of the greedy one upon the world is like an example of the silkworm. Every time it increases enveloping the silk upon itself it becomes even more remote from the exiting (from its cocoon) until it dies sadly’. And Abu Abdullah<sup style="font-weight: normal">asws</sup> said: ‘The richest of the rich is the one who does not happen to be a prisoner of the greediness’. And he<sup style="font-weight: normal">asws</sup> said: ‘Do not let your hearts be pre-occupied with what has been lost, for you will be pre-occupying your minds from the prepearation for what has not yet come’.
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