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An Analysis of the Impacts of Religious Ethics Principles … M. Askarinejad et al (89
Chastity is at the top of mentioned. Disapproving
all good things (Āmadī Sharah and introducing Jews as
Tamīmī, 1989: Ḥadīth more greedy than pagans in
1168). mundane life, Allah (SWT) said,
Enumerating the virtues for “Surely, you will find
‘Iffat, Ibn Miskawayh said, them the greediest for
Following chastity man life, of all people even
can find diverse virtues the idolaters. Each of
like comfort, patience, them is eager to live a
generosity, freedom, thousand years, though
contentment, gentleness, it would not deliver him
regularity, reconciliation, from the punishment,
solemnity, best guidance were he to live [that
and piety (Ibn Miskawayh long]. And Allah
2014: 106). watches what they do”
(The Qur’an, 2: 96).
• Sharah (Greediness) as
al-Ifrāṭ (Exaggeration) In this respect, Imam Ali
Side of the Faculty of (PBUH) said,
Concupiscence A greedy man never finds
Clarifying Sharah, the late relaxing (Āmadī Tamīmī,
Narāqī said, “The man obeys all 1989: Ḥadīth 6601).
desires e.g., sexual desires, • Khomūd (Subsidence) as
appetite for eating and drinking, al-Tafrīṭ (Simplicity)
property accumulation, etc. It is Side of the Faculty of
also called extreme avidity for Concupiscence
eating and having sex. Hence, Khomūd means to be listless
greediness is more general than and lassitude to look for
other vices for the faculty of necessary enjoyments even if
concupiscence and their origin ones permitted by religion and
(Narāqī, 2002, Vol.2: 17). intellect (Ṭūsī, 1953: 120).
Disgracing Sharah, several Khomūd is a kind of
verses of the Qur’an and suppression against the faculty
narrations have been
