sayingSelf-DisciplineSaying 439
“The worst in bargaining and the most unsuccessful in striving is a man who exerts himself in seeking riches although fate does not help him in his aims and, consequently, he goes from this world in a sorrowful state while in the next world, too, he will face its ill consequences.”
MEANING
Imam Ali (a.s.) points to a truth worth sitting with: the worst in bargaining and the most unsuccessful in striving is a man who exerts himself in seeking riches although fate does not help him in his aims and, consequently, he goes from this world in a sorrowful state while in the next world, too, he will face its ill consequences.
TAKE THIS INTO YOUR DAY
Identify one desire today and refuse it for Allah's sake.
SOURCE
Saying 439 — Peak of Eloquence / Nahjul-Balagha (Tahrike Tarsile Qur'an ed.)
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