Miserliness, cowardice, and poverty as moral and social flaws

Nahj al-Balāgha · Volume 1 · Section 3 · 1 narrations

Hadith 1989

3. Amīr al-mu’minīn, peace be upon him, said: Miserliness is shame; cowardice is a defect; poverty disables an intelligent man from arguing his case; and a destitute person is a stranger in his home town.

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