The Difference Between Zuhd and Wara'

Question:
May Allah reward you, Honorable Shaykh. This questioner says: I hear a lot about zuhd and wara', but I do not know the difference between them. I hope you will clarify this for me, and how we can be people of zuhd and wara', in accordance with the school and methodology of the people of the Sunnah and the community.

Answer:
Zuhd is leaving behind the excess of what you do not need in your life. What you do not need in your life, you leave it. As for what you need, zuhd is not that you leave what you need and what makes you independent of people. Rather, you acquire or earn what makes you independent of people. As for what exceeds your need, leaving it is zuhd; leaving the excess. Excess means the extra things. This is part of zuhd. Also part of zuhd is what the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) guided to: "Be indifferent to what is in people's hands, and people will love you." Do not look longingly at what is in people's hands, or that they will give you or gift you. Do not look longingly at what is in people's hands, but place your hope in Allah (Glorified and Exalted is He) and be independent of people. Because if you need people, they will enslave you. For this reason, it is said in wisdom: "Be independent of whom you wish, and you will be his equal."
If you are independent of him, you become his equal. But if you need him, he enslaves you; you become his slave. It says: "Trust whom you wish, and you will be his master. Need whom you wish, and you will be his prisoner. Be independent of whom you wish, and you will be his equal." This is it. Yes.