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الإمام جعفر الصادق (عليه السَّلام ):

مَثَلُ الْحَرِيصِ عَلَى الدُّنْيَا كَمَثَلِ‏ دُودَةِ الْقَزِّ، كُلَّمَا ازْدَادَتْ‏ عَلى‏ نَفْسِهَا لَفّاً، كَانَ أَبْعَدَ لَهَا مِنَ الْخُرُوجِ حَتّى‏ تَمُوتَ غَمّاً.

Imam Ja‘far al-Ṣadiq (as):

The similitude of the one who covets this world is as the caterpillar: the more silk it spins around itself, the harder it makes its exit for itself, until it dies of grief.

Tags: Love of the World covetousness Death grief

Source: al-Kāfī Vol3 P347

ID: 16829

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Imam Ja‘far al-Ṣadiq (as)

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al-Kāfī

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Abū Jaʿfar, Muḥammad b. Yaʿqūb b. Isḥāq al-Kulaynī Al-Rāzī (Arabic: ابوجعفر، محمّد بن یعقوب بن اسحاق الرازی) (c. 255/868-9 - 329/941) was among the greatest Shi'a hadith scholars and the author of al-Kafi, the most authentic Shi'a hadith collection and one the Four Books. He was born after the martyrdom of Imam al-'Askari (a), at the time of Imam al-Mahdi (a) and met some hadith transmitters who directly had heard hadiths from Imam al-Hadi (a) and Imam al-'Askari (a). It is said that al-Kulayni was very accurate in transmitting hadiths. Ibn Qulawayh, Muhammad b. Ali Majilawayh al-Qummi, Ahmad b. Muhammad al-Zurari were among his students.

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1386

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Dar al-Hadith