hadith
1452
۞
God's Prophet (a.s) said: “The best jihad is the one with your own self.”
ثم قال (صلى الله عليه وآله): أفضل الجهاد من جاهد نفسه التي بين جنبيه.
Similar narrations
- Mīzān al-Ḥikma #1545 Imam Ali (AS) relates, ‘The Prophet (SAWA) dispatched troops [to a mission]. On seeing the returning armies from the battlefront, he said,...
- Maʿānī al-ʾAkhbār #236 Indeed, the Messenger of Allah, Allah’s blessings be upon him and his Family, once sent a brigade, and when they returned, he said: Welcome...
- Al-Amālī #734 Amir al-Mu’minin (as) said: The Messenger of Allah (s) sent people on an expedition. When they returned, he said: Greetings to a people who...
- Ghurar al-Ḥikam #1420 Imam Ali (AS) said, Struggling against the self is the best Jihad.
- Ghurar al-Ḥikam #1437 Imam Ali (AS) said, Struggling against the self is the best Jihād.
- Ghurar al-Ḥikam #1408 Imam Ali (AS) said, The best Jihād is the struggle of a man against his [carnal] soul.
- Ghurar al-Ḥikam #1412 Imam Ali (AS) said, Indeed the best Jihād is the struggle of a man against his [carnal] soul.
- Mīzān al-Ḥikma #1546 Imam Ali (AS) said, ‘The best jihad is combatting ones self against its desires, and weaning it from the pleasures of this world.