hadith
1019
۞
Imam Ali (AS) said, I am amazed at the wretched miser who rushes towards the poverty that is fleeing him and loses the wealth that is seeking him; he lives a life of poverty in this world and is called to account with the reckoning of the wealthy in the Hereafter.
الإمامُ عليٌّ (عَلَيهِ الّسَلامُ) : عَجِبْتُ لِلْشَّقِيِّ البَخيلِ يَتَعَجَّلُ الفَقْرَ الَّذي مِنْهُ هَرَبَ وَ يَفُوتُهُ الغِنى الَّذي إيّاهُ طَلَبَ فَيَعيشُ فِي الدُّنيا عَيْشَ الفُقَراءِ وَ يُحاسَبُ فِي الآخِرَةِ حِسابَ الأغْنياءِ
Tags
Greed/Stinginess
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