Idleness
12 sayings
Imam Zayn al-Abidin (AS) said in his supplication "and divert our hearts from every other act of remembrance through Your remembrance, our tongues from every other act of thanksgiving through [being preoccupied with] thanking You, our limbs from every other act of obedience through [being preoccupied with] obedience to You! If You have ordained for us idleness in an occupation, make it an idleness of safety, wherein no ill consequence visits us nor weariness overtakes us as a result! Then the writers of evil deeds may depart from us with a page empty of the mention of our evil deeds, and the writers of good deeds may leave us happy with the good deeds of ours which they have written".
al-Sahifa al-Sajjadiyya, Supplication 11; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 420 link
Imam Zayn al-Abidin (AS) said in his supplication'O Allah, bless Muhammad and his Household, and spare me the concerns which distract me, employ me in that which You will ask me about tomorrow, and let me pass my days [engaged] in that for which You have created me!
al-Sahifa al-Sajjadiyya, supplication 20; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 420 link
Imam Zayn al-Abidin (AS) said in his supplication and grant me health for the sake of worshipping [You], and idleness for the sake of reclusion.'
al-Sahifa al-Sajjadiyya, supplication 20; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 420 link
Imam Zayn al-Abidin (AS) said in his supplicationn on the day of `Aarafa, 'Let me taste, through some of Your boundless plenty, the flavour of being free for what You love, and striving in what brings about proximity with You and to You, and give me a gift from among Your gifts! Make my commerce profitable and my return without loss, fill me with fear of Your station, and make me yearn for the meeting with You.'
al-Sahifa al-Sajjadiyya, supplication 47; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 420 link
Verily Allah, most High, hates the servant who sleeps much; verily Allah, most High, hates the idle servant.
al-Faqih, v. 3, p. 169, no. 3635; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 420 link
The one to be the most harshly judged on the Day of Resurrection will be the capable yet idle [people]. If work is endeavor, idleness is corruptive.
Tanbih al-Khawatir, v. 1, p. 60; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 418 link
Verily Allah hates the healthy-bodied idle person, who is neither concerned with his worldly life, nor the Hereafter.
Sharhe Nahj al-Balagha by Abi al-Hadid, v. 17, p. 146; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 419 link
There are two things most people are tested with: health and idleness.
al-Kafi, v. 8, p. 152, no. 136; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 419 link
Imam Amir-ul-Mu'mineen Ali [a] said
From idleness comes desire.
Ghurar al-Hikam, no. 9251; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 419 link
Imam Amir-ul-Mu'mineen Ali [a] said
Know that the world is a place of trial wherein there is no time a person can afford to be idle, for that time will be a source of regret for him on the Day of Resurrection.
Nahj al-Balagha, Letter 59; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 419 link
Imam Amir-ul-Mu'mineen Ali [a] said
How deserving man is of having an hour where no one disturbs him!
Ghurar al-Hikam, no. 9684; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 419 link
Imam Amir-ul-Mu'mineen Ali [a] said
If work is endeavor, then continuous idleness is corruptive.
Bihar al-Anwar, v. 77, p. 419, no. 40; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 419 link
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