hadith
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Imam al-Sadiq (AS), when asked what consolidates a servants faith, replied, ‘The thing that consolidates it in him is piety, and that which takes him out of it [i.e. faith] is greed.
الإمامُ الصّادقُ (عَلَيهِ الّسَلامُ) ـ وقد سُئلَ عمّا يُثَبِّتُ الإيمانَ في العبدِ ـ : الّذي يُثَبّتُهُ فيهِ الوَرَعُ ، والّذي يُخْرِجُهُ مِنهُ الطَّمَعُ.
Similar narrations
- Ghurar al-Ḥikam #817 Imam Ali (AS) said, The uprightness of faith is [in] piety and its corruption is [in] greed.
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