Commentary of Hadith:

One of the important issues to discuss is the issue of the regime of worth or value in the Divine Heavenly religions amongst the human society.

In the material world and in the spiritual world, everything has a value. There are things which are cheap and things which are valuable, and it is natural that if something has little value then o�ne would easily give it up and if something is seen as being valuable then it would definitely not be given up with ease! For example, a small child who has a very expensive jewel in his hand would use it o�nly to play with as in his opinion, it has no value, and he would easily give this thing up (when the time comes).

The expensive and valuable jewels which we have this world have a name and worth to them � and o�ne of these such jewels of the world was found by a person who was simply a passerby in a location while there were some children who were playing with it and who gave him this thing which they felt had no (material) value to it.

The character of a person is just the same � if he considers himself as having any worth, then he would not sell himself away so easily. In relation to this issue, the Quran tells us that in the world of existence, after the pure essence of Allah, there is nothing worth more than the human being and the proof of this is that all things which exist in the universe have been created for mankind:

خلقت الاشياء لأجلك و خلقتك لأجلي

�I created all the things in the universe for you and I created you for Me.�

In addition, we see that the highest of all of the creations of Allah - the Angels � were commanded to prostrate towards man:

فسجد الملائكت كلهم أجمعون...

�So then the Angels bowed down in prostration to him � all of them��

From this, the value and worth of the human being is made clear. In addition to this, all of the things in the universe have been placed at the disposal of the human being � meaning that all of the things in creation work for the human being and this too shows the status of mankind!

Thus, if we were to understand the worth of our soul then we would definitely not sell it for the lower desires which quickly pass away nor for the worthless positions (in this transient world).

However if we do not recognize our own self worth, then we will definitely sell ourselves cheap and we must be frightened from such a person since he would even kill a person for a small price since he does not consider himself to be worth anything and such a person is very dangerous.

However what about the person who considers himself to be worth something, or:

من كرمت عليه نفسه

��The o�ne who considers himself to be worth something��

The answer to this question has been provided by Mawla `Ali in three sentences where he has said:

من كرمت عليه نفسه لم يهنها بالشهوات

��The o�ne who considers himself to be worth something will not weaken himself through his lower desires.�

من كرمت عليه نفسه هانت عليه شهوة

��The o�ne who considers himself to be worth something will consider his lower desires as something of no value.�

من كرمت عليه نفسه صغرت الدنيا في عينه

��The o�ne who considers himself to be worth something will consider the transient world as something insignificant in his eyes.�2

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�and all praise belongs to Allah o�nly the mistakes are mine

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1 Bihar al-Anwar, Volume 75, Page 365

2 Mizanul Hikmah, Under the letters of �Bنفس�