Islam: Stinginess and avarice - Imam Ali (as)

Stinginess is one of the two forms of poverty.

Stintiness earns dishonour and makes one enter hellfire.

Stinginess inspending from one's wealth that which Allah, the Glorified has made obligatory, is the worst type of stinginess.

Protect yourselves from vehement miserliness, malice, anger and jealousy and prepare for each of these things a contrivance which you can fight it with like thinking abou the consequence, refraining [from] vice, seeking virtue, inproving your Hereafter and espousing forbearance,

Be wary of stinginess, for it is ignobility and [leads to] vilification.

Be wary of avarice, for verily it brings hate, tarnishes [one's good qualitites and exposes [one's] faults.

I bid you not to adorn yourself with stinginess, for it will disparage you near those who are close to you and will make you hated by your relatives.

I bid you to refrain from avarice, for it is the garment of indigence and the bridle that is used to drive one towards every [type of] vileness.

I bid you to refrain from stinginess, for the miser is hated by strangers and shunned by those who are close to him.

The worst stinginess is witholding money from those who deserve it.

Stinginess is [a form of] poverty.

Avarice leads to vilification.

Making too many excuses is a sign of stinginess.

Avarice earns vilification.

Stinginess earns condemnation.

Stinginess degrades its possessor.

Stinginess earns condemnation.

Stinginess gives rise to hatred.

Stinginess with what is available [in one's possession] is thinking negatively of God.

Stinginess humiliates its possessor and elevates the one who turns away from it,

Through stinginess, vilification increases.

The worst trait is stinginess,

Excessive avarice sullies chivalry and spoils brotherhood.

In avarice there is vilification (and dishonour).

Excessive avarice leads to vilification.

If you were to see stinginessin the form of a man, you would have surely seen an ugly, disfigured person.

If you were to see stinginess in the form of a man, you would have surely seen a disfiguered person, from whom every eye would look away, and every heart would turn away.

One who persists in avarice is deprived of [sincere] advisers.

Avarice is one of the mostrevolting traits.

How revolting is stinginess with affluence!

How revolting is stinginess by those who possess nobility.

Nothing brings down the wrath of Allah like stinginess.

The honorable do not flee from death the way they flee from stinginess and the company of the wicked,

There is no vilification like avarice.

Thee is no alienation like avarice.

There is no evil trait worse than avarice.

There is no evil trait worse that stinginess.

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