16-2 Muhammad ibn Ali Majiluyih - may God be pleased with him - narrated that his uncle Muhammad ibn Abil-Qasim quoted Muhammad ibn Ali al-Qurashi al-Kufy, on the authority of Abu Zyad Muhammad ibn Zyad al-Basry, on the authority of Abdullah ibn Abdul Rahman al-Madani, on the authority of Sabit ibn Abi Sofayat al-Somali, on the authority of Soor ibn Sa’id, on the authority of his father Sa’id ibn Alaqat, “I heard the Commander of the Faithful Imam Ali (MGB) say, ‘The following deeds are all causes of poverty: not dusting off the spider webs from the walls of the house; peeing in the bath; eating food before purification of the body after having sex; associating with people who always waste their time with vain talk; combing hair while standing up; not taking the trash out of the house; false swearing; fornication; greed; sleeping between the evening and the night prayer; sleeping before sunset; becoming a liar; listening to music too much; chiding away a poor man who remembers God at night; improper spending; and cutting off relations from relatives.’Imam Ali (MGB) then said, ‘Do you want me to tell you what will increase your share of daily bread?’The people said, ‘O Commander of the Faithful! Yes.’He (MGB) said, ‘The following deeds will increase your share of daily bread: saying your noon and afternoon, or evening and night prayers one right after the other; saying some supplications after the night and morning prayer; visiting the relatives; sweeping the entrance of the house; sympathizing with your believing brothers; getting up early in the morning and going out to work to earn the daily bread; asking God for forgiveness; being trustworthy; saying what is right; going to pray when the call to prayer is announced; not talking in the toilet; not being greedy; being grateful to the Owner of the blessings; avoiding false swearing; making ablution before eating; eating what might fall off of the table-cloth . In addition, God the Almighty will fend off seventy types of calamities from whoever praises God thirty times each day - the simplest of which being poverty.’”