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Peace and greetings to you, esteemed teacher. Please explain and advise me about whether the claim above—that urinating in the bathroom is connected with a lack of blessing in one’s life—is authentic.
َّهِ الرَّحْمنِ الرَّحيمِ
According to a narration from Imam Ali (AS), urinating in the bathroom is one of the factors associated with a lack of blessing and poverty in life. The narration also mentions other causes of poverty, such as leaving cobwebs in the home and eating while in a state of major ritual impurity. Other narrations, meanwhile, point to ways of increasing one’s provision, including maintaining family ties and seeking forgiveness.
There are undoubtedly unseen factors at work in the loss of blessing. Every place has a sanctity of its own, which must be preserved. There is surely a particular relationship between our actions and conduct and God’s blessings. The Creator of all existence is the source of blessings; when His laws are violated, those blessings, too, are withdrawn.
The answer to our questions about the wisdom and mysteries behind rulings and narrations comes from the one who is God’s treasure upon the earth.
I present to you this beautiful hadith, which speaks of specific causes of poverty!
علِيَّ بْنَ أَبِي طَالِبٍ ع يَقُولُ تَرْكُ نَسْجِ الْعَنْكَبُوتِ فِي الْبَيْتِ يُورِثُ الْفَقْرَ وَ الْبَوْلُ فِي الْحَمَّامِ يُورِثُ الْفَقْرَ وَ الْأَكْلُ عَلَى الْجَنَابَةِ يُورِثُ الْفَقْرَ وَ التَّخَلُّلُ بِالطَّرْفَاءِ يُورِثُ الْفَقْرَ وَ التَّمَشُّطُ مِنْ قِيَامٍ يُورِثُ الْفَقْرَ وَ تَرْكُ الْقُمَامَةِ فِي الْبَيْتِ يُورِثُ الْفَقْرَ وَ الْيَمِينُ الْفَاجِرَةُ تُورِثُ الْفَقْرَ وَ الزِّنَا يُورِثُ الْفَقْرَ وَ إِظْهَارُ الْحِرْصِ يُورِثُ الْفَقْرَ وَ النَّوْمُ بَيْنَ الْعِشَاءَيْنِ يُورِثُ الْفَقْرَ وَ النَّوْمُ قَبْلَ طُلُوعِ الشَّمْسِ يُورِثُ الْفَقْرَ وَ تَرْكُ التَّقْدِيرِ فِي الْمَعِيشَةِ يُورِثُ الْفَقْرَ وَ قَطِيعَةُ الرَّحِمِ يُورِثُ الْفَقْرَ وَ اعْتِيَادُ الْكَذِبِ يُورِثُ الْفَقْرَ وَ كَثْرَةُ الِاسْتِمَاعِ إِلَى الْغِنَاءِ يُورِثُ الْفَقْرَ وَ رَدُّ السَّائِلِ الذَّكَرِ بِاللَّيْلِ يُورِثُ الْفَقْرَ ثُمَّ قَالَ ع أَ لَا أُنَبِّئُكُمْ بَعْدَ ذَلِكَ بِمَا يَزِيدُ فِي الرِّزْقِ قَالُوا بَلَى يَا أَمِيرَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ فَقَالَ الْجَمْعُ بَيْنَ الصَّلَاتَيْنِ يَزِيدُ فِي الرِّزْقِ وَ التَّعْقِيبُ بَعْدَ الْغَدَاةِ وَ بَعْدَ الْعَصْرِ يَزِيدُ فِي الرِّزْقِ وَ صِلَةُ الرَّحِمِ تَزِيدُ فِي الرِّزْقِ وَ كَسْحُ الْفِنَاءِ يَزِيدُ فِي الرِّزْقِ وَ مُوَاسَاةُ الْأَخِ فِي اللَّهِ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ يَزِيدُ فِي الرِّزْقِ وَ الْبُكُورُ فِي طَلَبِ الرِّزْقِ يَزِيدُ فِي الرِّزْقِ وَ الِاسْتِغْفَارُ يَزِيدُ فِي الرِّزْقِ وَ اسْتِعْمَالُ الْأَمَانَةِ يَزِيدُ فِي الرِّزْقِ وَ قَوْلُ الْحَقِّ يَزِيدُ فِي الرِّزْقِ وَ إِجَابَةُ الْمُؤَذِّنِ يَزِيدُ فِي الرِّزْقِ وَ تَرْكُ الْكَلَامِ فِي الْخَلَاءِ يَزِيدُ فِي الرِّزْقِ وَ تَرْكُ الْحِرْصِ يَزِيدُ فِي الرِّزْقِ وَ شُكْرُ الْمُنْعِمِ يَزِيدُ فِي الرِّزْقِ وَ اجْتِنَابُ الْيَمِينِ الْكَاذِبَةِ يَزِيدُ فِي الرِّزْقِ وَ الْوُضُوءُ قَبْلَ الطَّعَامِ يَزِيدُ فِي الرِّزْقِ وَ أَكْلُ مَا يَسْقُطُ مِنَ الْخِوَانِ يَزِيدُ فِي الرِّزْقِ وَ مَنْ سَبَّحَ اللَّهَ كُلَّ يَوْمٍ ثَلَاثِينَ مَرَّةً دَفَعَ اللَّهُ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ عَنْهُ سَبْعِينَ نَوْعاً مِنَ الْبَلَاءِ أَيْسَرُهَا الْفَقْرُ.
*Al-Khiṣāl*, vol. 2, p. 504
Imam Ali ibn Abi Talib (AS) says:
1. Leaving a spider’s web in the house brings poverty.
2. Urinating in a public bath brings poverty.
3. Eating while in a state of ritual impurity brings poverty.
4. Cleaning one’s teeth with a twig from the tamarisk tree brings poverty.
5. Combing one’s hair while standing brings poverty.
6. Leaving rubbish in the house brings poverty.
7. Taking a false oath brings poverty.
8. Fornication brings poverty.
9. Showing greed and covetousness brings poverty.
10. Sleeping between the Maghrib and Isha prayers brings poverty.
11. Sleeping before sunrise brings poverty.
12. Being wasteful or overly restrictive in one’s livelihood brings poverty.
13. Severing ties of kinship brings poverty.
14. Making a habit of lying brings poverty.
15. Listening excessively to frivolous songs brings poverty.
16. Turning away a man who asks for help at night brings poverty.
Then he said:
“Shall I not now tell you of things that increase one’s provision?”
They replied, “Yes, O Commander of the Faithful!”
He said:
1. Praying two prayers together—such as Fajr and Dhuhr, or Maghrib and Isha—increases one’s provision.
2. Reciting supplications after the Fajr and Asr prayers increases one’s provision.
3. Maintaining ties of kinship increases one’s provision.
4. Sweeping the courtyard of one’s home increases one’s provision.
5. Sharing what one has with one’s fellow believer increases one’s provision.
6. Rising early to seek one’s livelihood increases one’s provision.
7. Seeking forgiveness increases one’s provision.
8. Being trustworthy increases one’s provision.
9. Speaking the truth, even when it is difficult, increases one’s provision.
10. Repeating the words of the call to prayer increases one’s provision.
11. Refraining from speaking in the lavatory increases one’s provision.
12. Abandoning greed increases one’s provision.
13. Giving thanks to the Giver of blessings increases one’s provision.
14. Refraining from false oaths increases one’s provision.
15. Performing ablution before eating increases one’s provision.
16. Eating the crumbs left on the tablecloth increases one’s provision.
Finally, he said:
“Whoever says ‘سُبْحَانَ اللَّهِ’ thirty times each day, God will ward off seventy kinds of affliction from him, the least of which is poverty.”
Many thanks to you, esteemed teacher. May the Most Compassionate and Merciful God reward you.