Judgement for greediness

Greed is the excess fondness of money and fortune.
It is one of the bad manners that draw to various
evils and sins. Greed is selfish excessive or
uncontrolled desire for possession or pursuit of
money, wealth, food, or other possessions, especially
when this denies the same goods to others.
Amir al-Muminin (as) said: "Know with certainty
that you cannot achieve your desire and cannot
exceed your destined life. You are on the track of
those before you. Therefore, be humble in seeking
and moderate in earning because often seeking leads
to deprivation. Every seeker of livelihood does not
get it, nor is everyone who is moderate in seeking
deprived."
Amir al-Muminin (as) said: "A greedy man will always
find himself in the shackles of humility."
Amir al-Muminin (as) said: "Greed is the key to
trouble and carries man to hardship. It causes him
to commit sin."
Imam Hasan Mujtaba (as) said: "The annihilation of
people lies in three things: Arrogance, Greed and
Envy. Arrogance causes destruction of the religion
and because of it Shaitan (Satan) was cursed, and
Greed is the enemy of one's soul, and because of it
Adam was expelled from Paradise, and Envy is the
guide to wickedness, and because of it Qabil (Cain)
killed Habil (Abel) - the two sons of Prophet Adam
(as)."
Imam Muhammad al-Baqir (as) said: "In his love for
the world, the greedy is like the silkworm: the more
it wraps in its cocoon, the less it has of escaping
from it, until it dies of grief."
Imam Jafar Sadiq (as) said: "If son of Adam were to
possess two valleys of gold and silver, he would long
for a third. Son of Adam, your stomach is but an
ocean or a valley that cannot be filled in with
anything except dust."
Imam Jafar Sadiq (as) said: "The destruction that
the fondness of fortune leaves on a man is more
effective than the deed of two ravenous wolves that
attack a shepherd less herd, one from the front and
the other from the back. The Muslim's honor,
however, lies in his religiosity."
Islam and Greed: Disadvantages of Greed (Selfishness
and Islam)
Greed enslaves man and causes him grief. The greedy
cares only for collecting fortunes without stopping
at any limit. Whenever he achieves a goal, he works
for achieving another and, so, he becomes the slave
of avidity until death strikes him. He, also, exerts
laborious efforts for collecting riches, but he is the
less beneficiary. He tires for gaining fortunes, but
death comes unexpectedly upon him to deprive him of
enjoying that fortune. The heirs, then, enjoy his
fortune very easily. Furthermore, greed takes to the
slips of sinful matters that produce problematic
situations in the world to come. It also hinders
from doing charity.
Treatment of Greed according to Imam Jafar Sadiq
(as), "I guarantee for the moderate that he will not
see poverty."

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