AMUSEMENT اللَّهوُ

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2– Imam Ali (AS) said, ‘Amusement is the provision of stupidity.’
[Ghurar al-Hikam, no. 937]

3– Imam Ali (AS) said, ‘The worst thing that life is wasted on is play.’
[Ghurar al-Hikam, no. 5729]

4– Imam Ali (AS) said, ‘Amusement brings discontent to the Merciful, pleases Satan, and it makes one forget the Qur’an.’
[Bihar al-Anwar, v. 78, p. 9, no. 66]

5– Imam Ali (AS) said, ‘Amusement corrupts the wills of determination.’
[Ghurar al-Hikam, no. 2165]

6– Imam Ali (AS) said, ‘Gatherings of amusement corrupt the faith.’
[Ghurar al-Hikam, no. 9185]

7– Imam Ali (AS) said, ‘The farthest of people from success is the one infatuated with amusement and jokes.’
[Ghurar al-Hikam, no. 3333]

8– Imam Ali (AS) said, ‘He whose amusement increases his intellect decreases.’
[Ghurar al-Hikam, no. 8426]

9– Imam Ali (AS), describing a believer, said, ‘His time is always occupied.’
[Nahj al-Balagha, Saying 333]

10– Imam Hasan (AS) said, ‘A believer does not occupy himself with amusement lest he becomes negligent, and when he thinks he becomes sad.’
[Tanbih al-Khawatir, v. 1, p. 52]

11– Imam al-Sadiq (AS), regarding someone who wanted to go hunting for amusement, said, ‘A believer is too busy for that; acquiring the Hereafter preoccupies him away from amusements…’ until he said, ‘A believer is too busy for all this, and what does he have to do with amusement, for amusement enegenders hard-heartedness and hypocrisy.’
[Mustadrak al-Wasa`il, v. 13, p. 216, no. 15163]

12– The Prophet (SAWA) said, ‘Every kind of amusement is wrong for a believer except for three: his taming of a horse, his casting from a bow, and his foreplay with his wife, for they are
[with] the truth.’
[al-Kafi, v. 5, p. 50, no. 13]

13– The Prophet (SAWA) said, ‘The best amusement for a believer is swimming, and the best amusement for women is the spinning wheel.’
[Kanz al-`Ummal, no. 40611]