Hadith 24

ins it, or part of it; the inclining towards the world is with (despite) what is seen, is ignorance, while the being deficient in good works despite trusting with the Rewards upon it is embezzlement; and the reassurance to each one should be before the testing; inability and the stinginess are a summary of the evil manners. A bounty of Allah-azwj upon the servant is an attraction of needs of the people to him, so the one who stands regarding these for the Sake of Allah-azwj with what is obligated, exposes these (bounties) for the permanency, and one who does not stand in it with what is obligated, exposes it to the decline and the annihilation. The desire is a key of toiling, and the envy is a mount (ride) of exhaustion; one who knows that his speech is from his deeds, little would be his speech, except regarding what concerns him; one who looks at faults of the people, so he dislikes these, then he loves these for himself, so that is the idiot exactly; the chastity is an adornment of the poverty, and the thanks is an adornment of the riches. Your messenger is an interpreter of your intellect, and your letter is further reaching of what is spoken; the people are sons of the world and the man cannot be blamed upon loving his mother; the greed is a disloyal guarantor, and the aspirations blind the eye of insights; there is no trade like the righteous deed, and there is no profit like the Rewards. And there is no leader like the inclination, nor any pedigree like the humility, nor any nobility like the knowledge, nor any devoutness like the pausing at the doubtful matter, nor any pair like good morals, nor any worship like fulfilling the obligations, nor any intellect like the management, nor any loneliness lonelier than the self-fascination; and the one who prolongs the hopes, worsens the deeds’’. [23]