Chapter Five: Economic Policies
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Encouragement to Work
167. Imām Ali (a.s.): “When things coupled one with another (chosen as pairs), laziness and incapability were connected and poverty was produced from them.”1
168. Imām Ali (a.s.): “Indeed I hate a man who is lazy in his worldly affairs; for if he is lazy in his worldly affairs, he will be more lazy in the affairs of the Hereafter.”2
169. Imām Ali (a.s.): “No early rising of any of you in the path of God is greater than the early rising of someone who seeks for that which improves [the conditions for] his children and household.”3
170. Imām Ali (a.s.): “He who seeks the world lawfully in order to take care of his parents, children or wife, God will resurrect him with his face radiating like a full moon.”4
171. Imām Ali (a.s.): “I advise you to fear God secretly and openly, to practice justice in pleasure and anger, and to earn livelihood in poverty and affluence.”5
1.. al-Kāfi, vol. ۵, p. ۸۶, h. ۸. Tuhaf al-`Uqul, p. ۲۲۰.
2.. Da`ā'im al-Islām, vol. ۲, p. ۱۴, h. ۲.
3.. Al-Sarā'ir, vol. ۲, p. ۲۲۸, Da`ā'im al-Islām, vol. ۲, p. ۱۵, h. ۹, `Awāli al-Li`Ali, vol. ۳, p. ۱۹۴, h. ۶.
4.. Musnad of Zaid, p. ۲۵۵.
5.. Tuhaf al-`Uqul, p. ۳۹۰, Bihār al-Anwār, vol. ۷۸, p. ۳۰۴, h. ۱.
