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Selected quote
The parable of a man greedy of this world is the parable of the silk worm: the more it winds the thread round itself the farther it becomes from salvation, until it dies of grief.
—
Muhammad al-Baqir
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Muhammad Kulayni,
Usūl al-Kāfī - Book of Faith and Infidelity
, vol.3, p.202 & vol.2, p.316
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