14ـ الإمامُ عليٌّ (عَلَيهِ الّسَلامُ): أحَقُّ الناسِ بالزَّهادَةِ مَن عَرَفَ نَقصَ الدنيا.
14– Imam Ali (AS) said, 'The person best able to practice abstemiousness is he who understands the inferiority of this worldly life.’[Ghurar al-Hikam, no. 3209]
15ـ الإمامُ عليٌّ (عَلَيهِ الّسَلامُ): كيفَ يَزهَدُ في الدنيا مَن لا يَعرِفُ قَدرَ الآخِرَةِ؟!
15– Imam Ali (AS) said, 'How can one renounce the pleasures of this world when he has not yet fathomed the worth of the Hereafter?!’[Ghurar al-Hikam, no. 6987]
16ـ الإمامُ الباقرُ (عَلَيهِ الّسَلامُ): أكثِرْ ذِكرَ المَوتِ ، فإنّهُ لَم يُكثِرْ إنسانٌ ذِكرَ المَوتِ إلّا زَهِدَ في الدنيا.
16– Imam al-Baqir (AS) said, 'Remember death frequently, for no sooner does man increase his remembrance of death than he begins to renounce this world's life.’[Bihar al-Anwar, v. 73, p. 64, no. 31]
17ـ الإمامُ الكاظمُ (عَلَيهِ الّسَلامُ) ـ عند قبرٍ حَضَرَهُ ـ: إنَّ شيئاً هذا آخِرُهُ لَحَقِيقٌ أن يُزهَدَ في أوَّلِهِ، وإنَّ شيئاً هذا أوَّلُهُ لَحَقِيقٌ أن يُخافَ آخِرُهُ.
17– Imam al-Kazim (AS) once said while standing at a graveside, ‘Indeed something that ends with this [i.e. death] is worthy of its beginning being spent in abstemiousness. And indeed something that begins with this is worthy of its end being feared with apprehension.’[Bihar al-Anwar, v. 78, p. 320, no. 9]
18ـ الإمامُ العسكريُّ (عَلَيهِ الّسَلامُ): لَو عَقَلَ أهلُ الدنيا خَرِبَتْ .
18– Imam al-`Aaskari (AS) said, 'If the inhabitants of this world used their intellect, the world would self-destruct [for it would cease to be of any importance].’[Bihar al-Anwar, p. 377, no. 3]
