يكصد و پنجاه درس زندگى - مكارم شيرازى، ناصر - الصفحة ٩٠ - Lesson ninety Do not demand anything from
Lesson ninety :Do not demand anything from
anybody as far as you can!
Imam Sadjad( A. S. )said:
طَلَبُ الْحَوائِجِ إِلىَ النّاسِ مَذَلَّةٌ لِلْحَياةِ وَ مَذَهَبَةٌ لِلْحَياءِ وَ إِسْتِخْفافٌ بِالْوَقارِ وَ هُوَ الفَقْرُ الْحاضِرُ
Translation
Demanding from people is abasement in life and destroys modesty and degrades man's dignity, and is a poverty which man provides for himself..
Brief description
Some people leave themselves to poverty assuming that they are escaping from it. They make themselves dependent and needy through unnecessary demands from the others and thereby ruin their human rank.
Islam instructs to its followers to be self- sufficient as far as they can and avoid dependent life because reliance on others is the very indigence.