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Shia hadith/Nahj al-Balāgha 1

Nahj al-Balāgha 1, record 161 of the digital edition

al-Sharīf al-Raḍī · Critique of worldliness and its transient nature

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Arabic text

فَمَنْ ذَا يَذُمُّهَا وَقَدْ آذَنَتْ بِبَيْنِهَا وَنَادَتْ بِفِرَاقِهَا وَنَعَتْ نَفْسَهَا وَأَهْلَهَا فَمَثَّلَتْ لَهُمْ بِبَلَائِهَا الْبَلَاءَ وَشَوَّقَتْهُمْ بِسُرُورِهَا إِلَى السُّرُورِ رَاحَتْ بِعَافِيَةٍ وَابْتَكَرَتْ بِفَجِيعَةٍ تَرْغِيباً وَتَرْهِيباً وَتَخْوِيفاً وَتَحْذِيراً فَذَمَّهَا رِجَالٌ غَدَاةَ النَّدَامَةِ وَحَمِدَهَا آخَرُونَ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ ذَكَّرَتْهُمُ الدُّنْيَا فَتَذَكَّرُوا وَحَدَّثَتْهُمْ فَصَدَّقُوا وَوَعَظَتْهُمْ فَاتَّعَظُوا.

Translation

Therefore, who can abuse it when it has announced its departure and called out that it would leave! It had given news of its own destruction and the death of its people. By its hardship it set an example of their hardships. By its pleasures it created eagerness for the pleasures (of the next world). It brings ease in the evening and grief in the morning by way of persuasion, dissuasion, alarm and warning. People abuse it on the morning of their repentance but there are others who will praise it on the Day of Judgement. The world recalled to them the next life and they bore it in mind. It related to them (things of the next life) and they acknowledged them. It preached to them and they took lesson therefrom. [1]

Translation: Sayed Ali Raza — published with the edition, reproduced verbatim.

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