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Ego THE PAUPER AND POVERTY

Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Love of poverty earns piety.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Poverty causes forgetfulness.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
The grave is better than poverty.100
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Poverty is the adornment of faith.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Poverty with debt is [like] a red death.101
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Poverty of the soul is the worst poverty.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
There is no poverty with good management.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
One who pretends to be poor, becomes poor.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Displaying neediness gives rise to poverty.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Many a poor person is mightier than a lion.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Poverty with debt is the greatest wretchedness.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
The wealth of a poor person is his contentment.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
How many a poor person is needed by someone else.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Many a poverty turns into with lasting affluence.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Whoever manifests his poverty, lowers his status.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
The most foolish of people is the arrogant pauper.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
The needy person is a stranger in his own homeland.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Extreme poverty is better than disgraceful affluence.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Many a poor person is wealthier than all the rich people.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Poverty in one’s homeland is like being a stranger in it.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
The hardships of poverty are preferable to facing humiliation.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Poverty disables the astute one from [presenting] his argument.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
How many a poor person is rich and [how many] a rich person is needy.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
One who sits in the company of the poor increases in [his] gratitude.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
The poor person is [like] a stranger (or is scorned) in his hometown.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
All [forms of] poverty can be redressed except the poverty of foolishness.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
The richest people in the Hereafter are the poorest of them in this world.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
The most apprising complaint is that which is enunciated by manifest affliction.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
The little that one is in need of is better than the plenty that one is needless of.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
The disadvantage of poverty is more praiseworthy than the arrogant insolence of wealth.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
The kings of this world and the Hereafter are the poor who are satisfied [with what they have].
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Verily poverty is disgracer for the soul, a confounder of the intellect, and a bringer of sorrows.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
The pauper who is satisfied is saved from the traps of Satan, whereas the rich person falls into his snares.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
There is no shame in being far away from one’s hometown; the only shame is being indigent in one’s one hometown.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
It is obligatory on the poor that he should not put forward his request [to others] unless he has no other choice.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
True poverty and wealth are [determined] after presenting [the account of] one’s deeds before Allah, the Glorified.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
The most hated of servants in the sight of Allah are: the pauper who is haughty, the elderly fornicator and the immoral scholar.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
The poorest of people is one who is stingy with himself despite [his] wealth and affluence, and leaves it behind for others [in the end].
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
One who is overcome by poverty should frequently recite: There is no might and no power but by [the will of] Allah, the Most High, the Most Mighty.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Poverty is beneficial for the believer, and gives him comfort from the jealousy of the neighbours, the flattery of the brothers and the domination of the ruler.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim