Idleness
idea · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
idleness · kasal · sitting idle
in the texts
Risālah fī ʻilm al-akhlāq
Sloth bred by neglected practice, named as forfeiting felicity in both abodes.
for neglecting the practical offices breeds an idleness that entails deprivation of felicity in this world and the next, and annulling the theoretical offices annuls the soul's readiness to receive the divine lights and the holy gifts.
Orations
The vice of idleness, criticized throughout as leading to baseness and associated with the reproach Hesiod attributed to the wealthy
For if one must, not naming the thing they blame, cast up by way of blasphemy the things that befall daily on its account, they would have far more, and truly shameful things, occurring through wealth, and not least to cast up that which Hesiod judged a reproach, the matter of idleness, saying, that the gods, O man, set you neither a digger nor a plougher, and that you keep your hands otherwise, l …
But let us see by doing how many and what things they shall pass their lives respectably with us, that they may not often be compelled, sitting idle, to turn to something base.