المالُ

WEALTH

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2– The Prophet (SAWA) said, ‘Satan, may Allah curse him, said, ‘The owner of wealth will not be safe from me in three things that I will overcome him with and leave thereafter: his acquisition of it from unlawful places, his spending it in its unrightful place, and I will make him love it so much that he will deprive it to its rightful due.’
[al-Targhib wa al-Tarhib, v. 4, p. 182, no. 68]

3– Imam Ali (AS) said, ‘Wealth is the substance of desires.’
[Nahj al-Balagha, Saying 58]

4– Imam Ali (AS) said, ‘Money strengthens expectations.’
[Ghurar al-Hikam, no. 577]

5– Prophet Jesus (AS) said, ‘Do not look at the wealth of the people of this world, for the glitter of their wealth will take away the light of your faith.’
[al-Mahajjat al-Bayza, v. 7, p. 328]

6– Imam Ali (AS) said, ‘Wealth corrupts the ultimate goal and heightens one’s expectations.’
[Ghurar al-Hikam, no. 1427]

7– Imam Ali (AS) said, ‘The love of wealth weakens one’s religion and corrupts one’s conviction.’
[Ghurar al-Hikam, no. 4876]

8– The Prophet (SAWA) said, ‘Blessed is the righteous wealth of a righteous man.’
[Tanbih al-Khawatir, v. 1, p. 158]

9– Imam Ali (AS) said, ‘Richness in a foreign place is like one’s homeland, and poverty in one’s homeland is like being a foreigner in it…’
[Nahj al-Balagha, Saying 56]

10– Imam Zayn al-Abidin (AS) said, ‘
[Being able] To make wealth flourish completes gallantry.’
[al-Kafi, v. 1, p. 20, no. 12]

11– Imam al-Sadiq (AS) said, ‘There is no good in he who does not love to earn lawful wealth with which he can protect his honour, repay his debts and maintain relations with his kin.’
[al-Kafi, v. 5, p. 72, no. 5]

12– The Prophet (SAWA) said, ‘I do not fear poverty for you, but I fear you vying in your excessive wealth.’
[Kanz al-`Ummal, no. 6139]

13– Imam Ali (AS) said, ‘Too much wealth corrupts the hearts and produces sins.’
[Ghurar al-Hikam, no. 7109]

14– Imam Husayn (AS) said, ‘Your wealth is such that if you do not control it, it will control you, so do not save any of it for it will not stay for you. Consume it before it consumes you.’
[al-Durra al-Bahira, p. 24]

15– Imam al-Sadiq (AS) said, ‘Whenever one’s wealth increases, Allah's evidence against him increases. So, if you are able to push it away from yourselves then do so. He was asked, ‘How?’ He replied, ‘By fulfilling the needs of your brothers from your wealth.’
[Amali al-Tusi, p. 302, no. 600]

16– Imam al-Sadiq (AS) narrated, ‘In an intimate conversation that Allah had with Prophet Moses (AS), He said, ‘Do not envy anyone for having excessive wealth, for with excessive wealth sins increase in
[trespassing] obligatory rights.’
[al-Kafi, v. 2, p. 135, no. 21]

17– Imam al-Sadiq (AS) said, ‘I sought after emptying my heart and I found it in having little wealth.’
[Mustadrak al-Wasa`il, v. 12, p. 174, no. 13810]

18– Imam al-Rida (AS) said, ‘Wealth can only be gathered through five means: through intense miserliness, high expectation, overcoming greed, cutting of kinship, and preferring this world over the Hereafter.’
[al-Khisal, p. 282, no. 29]

19– The Prophet (SAWA) said, ‘Allah will empoverish whoever acquires wealth from an illegitimate source.’
[Amali al-Tusi, p. 182, no. 306]

20– The Prophet (SAWA) said, ‘He who does not care whence he acquires wealth, Allah will not care whence He will make him enter Hell.’
[Bihar al-Anwar, v. 103, p. 13, no. 63]

21– Imam Ali (AS) said, ‘He who acquires wealth from a source he has no right to will spend it in a place where he will have no recompense thereof.’
[Tuhaf al-`Uqoul, p. 94]

22– Imam al-Sadiq (AS) said, ‘He who acquires wealth from illegitimate sources, the building, the soil and the water
[of those places] will reign over him.’
[al-Mahasin, v. 2, p. 455, no. 2528]

23– Imam al-Sadiq (AS) said, ‘He who acquires wealth unrightfully will be rightfully prevented from keeping it.’
[Tuhaf al-`Uqoul, p. 321]

24– The Prophet (SAWA) said, ‘You are three partners in your wealth: you, your losses, and your heir, so if you can try not to be the weakest of them then do so.’
[Kanz al-`Ummal, no. 16147]

25– The Prophet (SAWA) said, ‘The son of Adam says: ‘My property, my property! My wealth, my wealth!’ - O poor man! Where were you when I had my property but not you, and do you possess anything other than what you eat and excrete, or wear and wear out, or did you donate so it stayed?! Either you will be had mercy on as a result of it
[i.e. your wealth] or punished on account of it. So, beware lest that wealth which is not yours be more beloved to you than your own wealth.’
[Bihar al-Anwar, v. 71, p. 356, no. 17]

26– Imam Ali (AS) said, ‘Wealth is what benefits men.’
[Ghurar al-Hikam, no. 508]

27– Imam Ali (AS) said, ‘Wealth honours its owner where he spends it and humiliates him where he is miserly with it.’
[Ghurar al-Hikam, no. 1838]

28– Imam Ali (AS) said, ‘Hold onto wealth according to your need of it, and put the rest away for a day you will need it.’
[Nahj al-Balagha, Letter 21]

29– Imam Ali (AS) said, ‘The best of wealth is that with which one’s dignity is guarded and that through which one’s rights are fulfilled.’
[Bihar al-Anwar, v. 78, p. 7, no. 60]

30– Imam Ali (AS) said, ‘The best of your wealth is that which helps you with your needs.’
[Bihar al-Anwar, v. 78, p. 12, no. 70]

31– Imam al-Sadiq (AS) said, ‘Allah gave you this excess in wealth in order that you may use it according to how Allah Almighty would like, and He did not give it to you in order for you to store it away.’
[al-Faqih, v. 2, p. 57, no. 1693]

32– Imam Ali al-Riza (AS) said, ‘The best wealth of a person is what he reserves for charity.’
[Tanbih al-Khawatir, v. 2, p. 182]