الكَسَلُ

LAZINESS

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2– Imam Ali (AS) said, ‘A believer desires that which stays, and renounces that which perishes….his laziness is far from him and his energy is constant.’
[Bihar al-Anwar, v. 78, p. 26, no. 92]

3– Imam Ali (AS) said, ‘Laziness corrupts one’s Hereafter.’
[Mustadrak al-Wasa`il, v. 13, p. 45, no. 14695]

4– Imam Ali (AS) said, ‘Whoever obeys slackness will lose rights.’
[Sharhe Nahj al-Balagha li Ibn Abi al-Hadid, v. 19, p. 70]

5– Imam Ali (AS) said, ‘From slackness comes laziness.’
[Ghurar al-Hikam, no. 9284]

6– Imam Ali (AS) said, ‘Combat slackness with firm will.’
[Ghurar al-Hikam, no. 5927]

7– Imam Ali (AS) said, ‘Delaying work is the title for laziness.’
[Ghurar al-Hikam, no. 4471]

8– Imam al-Baqir (AS) said, ‘Laziness harms both one’s religion
[i.e. the Hereafter] and this world.’
[Bihar al-Anwar, v. 78, p. 180, no. 64]

9– Imam al-Baqir (AS) said, ‘I hate a man – or I hate for a man – to be lazy in his worldly affairs, and whoever is lazy in his worldly affairs will be lazier in his affairs of the Hereafter.’
[al-Kafi, v. 5, p. 85, no. 4]

10– Imam al-Sadiq (AS) said, ‘The enemy of work is laziness.’
[al-Kafi, v. 5, p. 85, no. 1]

11 – Imam al-Sadiq (AS) said to some of his children, ‘Beware of becoming lazy and bored, for they will both forbid you from your share in this world and the Hereafter.’
[al-Kafi, v. 5 p. 85, no. 2]