الثَواب

THE REWARD

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2- Imam Ali (AS) said, ‘The reward of the Hereafter causes one to forget the toil of this world.’
[Ibid. no. 4692]

3- Imam Ali (AS) said, ‘Allah, the Exalted, decreed reward for obeying Him and chastisement for disobeying Him, in order to protect His servants against His wrath and to herd them to His Paradise.’
[Nahj al-Balagha, Saying 368]

4- Imam Ali (AS) said, ‘The reward for any work is proportionate to the toil of performing it.’
[Ghurar al-Hikam, no. 4690]

5- Imam Ali (AS) said, ‘The greatest reward is the reward
[dealt] by fairness.’
[Ibid. no. 3387]

6- Imam Ali (AS) said, ‘The reward for jihad is the greatest reward.’
[Ibid. no. 4695]

7- Imam Ali (AS) said, ‘There are two things the reward for which is beyond measure: pardon and justice.’
[Ibid. no. 5769]

8- Imam al-Baqir (AS) said, ‘If a man hears about Allah’s reward for a particular action, and subsequently performs it in order to attain that reward, he will receive it – even if the actual report was contrary to what he had heard.’
[al-Kafi, v. 2, p. 87, no. 2]