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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Abasement, disgrace and wretchedness are in covetousness and greed.

Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim

Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Covetousness makes one enter [into difficulties and humiliation] but does not make him return from it; and it gives a guarantee but does not fulfil it.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

The most destructive thing is covetousness.

Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim

Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

The most harmful thing is covetousness.

Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim

Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

The ugliest of traits is covetousness.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

The worst thing is covetousness.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

The root of avarice is covetousness and its fruit is reproach.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

He who covers himself with covetousness has degraded himself.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

The places where intellects become most deficient are under the flashes of greed.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Covetousness is harmful.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Covetousness is an affliction.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Covetousness is bondage.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Covetousness is indigence.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Covetousness humiliates while piety exalts.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Covetousness is the beginning of evil.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Covetousness is a besieging (or and evident) indigence.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Covetousness is a present humiliation.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

With covetousness comes humiliation.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Coveted objects humiliate men.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Covetousness is endless bondage.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Covetousness debases the commander.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

If you give in to covetousness, it will destroy you.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Through avidities the necks of men are lowered [in humiliation].

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

How bad a companion of religion covetousness is!

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

The fruit of covetousness is wretchedness.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

The fruit of covetousness is humiliation in this world and the Hereafter.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Abandon covetousness and greediness and cling to chastity and piety.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

The abasement of men is in the things they covet and the passing away of lifetimes is in [following] the deceptions of [false] hopes.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

The cornerstone of piety is abandoning covetousness.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Sometimes there is a false ambition for an unseen (or lost) hope.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Embarking on avidities cuts off the necks of men.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

The cause of corruption of certitude is covetousness.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

The cause of corruption of piety is covetousness.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Oppose covetousness with piety.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

The servant of the coveted is enslaved and never gains his freedom.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

He who instils covetousness in his soul has deceived it.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

The corruption of religion is [caused by] covetousness.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Covetousness has been paired with humiliation.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

One who trades covetousness for loss of hope [and desire for what others posses], the people will not treat him with contempt.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

How good an aide of hope ambition is!

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

The trouble for religion is covetousness and its rectitude is [in] piety.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

We seek Allah's protection from lowly coveted things and the ambitions that are disliked [by Him].

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Do not covet that which you do not deserve.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Never let covetousness enslave you and be averse [to the pleasures of this world].

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Never let yourself covet that which is above your needs thereby letting it overcome you with the desire for more.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Do not let covetousness enslave you while Allah has made you free.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Nothing corrupts religion like covetousness.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

There is no quality more abased than covetousness.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

There is no humiliation greater than covetousness.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

A little covetousness corrupts a lot of piety.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Cupidity corrupts piety and licentiousness [corrupts] God-wariness.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Freedom from the captivity of covetousness is [gained] by acquiring loss of hope [in people].

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Covetousness is one of the two abasements.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

One who clings to covetousness is deprived of piety.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Whoever takes covetousness as his attire, it makes him swallow failure repeatedly.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

One who entertains the hope of [fulfilment of] false cupidity, the grant [which he receives] belies him.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

One who does not purify his soul from the lowliness of the coveted has actually abased himself and shall be even more abased and disgraced in the Hereafter.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

A little cupidity corrupts a lot of piety.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Excessive covetousness is the symbol of lack of piety.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

One who is possessed by covetousness is humiliated.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

One who clings to covetousness is deprived of piety.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

One whose covetousness increases, his downfall becomes greater.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Every coveter is a prisoner [of his desires].

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

How many a coveter covets pardon.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

One who covets becomes abased and undergoes hardship.

Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim

Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

There is none more abased than a coveter.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

The most indigent of people is the coveter.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

The most humiliated of all people is the greedy, suspicious, coveter.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

The coveter is forever abased.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

The coveter is forever in the shackles of disgrace.

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Hadith

Ethics Vices COVETOUSNESS