Lesson seventy two :Real ascetic men

Islam's Prophet( S. A. )says:

الزُّهدُ فى الدُّنْيا قَصْرُ الأَمَلِ وَ شُكْرُ كُلُّ نِعْمَةٍ وَ الوَرَعُ عَنْ كُلِّ مآ حَرَّمَ اللّهُ‌

Translation

Asceticism in this world is based on three things:

shortness of desires, thanksgiving for blessings, and avoiding the prohibited things..

Brief description

Most people misunderstand the concept of Islamic asceticism and consider it as isolation and separation from material and social life, and call real ascetic those who are involved in social seclusion and have left all material pleasures of social life, and thereby assume it an imperialistic program.

While, real asceticism has a corrective social concept to which is inferred in above tradition.

Avoiding usurpation of rights of others as well as illegitimate and unlawful properties, and using material facilities for logical and humanitarian purposes( which is the real concept of thanksgiving )and shortening the desires drowning in which dissociates man from everything save money, position and lust.