The Miser

The Prophet (SAWA) said, ‘The least comfortable one among people is the miser.

Imam Ali (AS) said, ‘The miser stores [wealth] for his inheritors.

Imam Ali (AS) said, ‘Miserliness humiliates its companion and honours the one who abandons it.

Imam Ali (AS) said, ‘A miser can have no friend.

Imam Ali (AS) said, ‘I wonder at the miser; he expedites the same poverty from which he escapes, and misses the same richness for which he yearns! So he leads a life of deprivation in this world like the poor, yet he will be judged with the rich in the Hereafter.

Imam Ali (AS) said, ‘Your need to a miser is colder than the cold wind.

Imam al-Sadiq (AS) said, ‘No one should love for others to be rich as much as the misers; for when others become rich, they would subsequently keep away from their wealth.

Imam al-Sadiq (AS) said, ‘The misers parsimony suffices as mistrust of his Lord, for a man who is certain of [Gods] compensation would give generously.'