Having the foresight to plan to earn a living, is half of the peace and leisure in life.
O God, thine is the praise that I give thee, and to thee is the excuse if I sin against thee. There is no work of merit on my own behalf or on behalf of another, and in evil there is no excuse for me or for another.
As for ‘Ali ibn Husayn (a), he cried over Husayn (a) for twenty years (after the tragedy of Karbala); never would any food be placed before him except that he would begin to weep.