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7ـ الإمامُ عليٌّ (عَلَيهِ الّسَلامُ): ما رَأيتُ إيماناً مَع يَقينٍ أشبَهَ مِنهُ بشَكٍّ على هذا الإنسانِ ؛ إنّهُ كُلَّ يَومٍ يُوَدِّعُ إلَى القُبورِ ويُشَيِّعُ، وإلى غُرورِ الدّنيا يَرجِعُ، وعنِ الشَّهوَةِ والذُّنوبِ لا يُقلِعُ، فلَو لَم يَكُن لابنِ آدمَ المِسكينِ ذَنبٌ يَتَوَكَّفُهُ ولاحِسابٌ يَقِفُ علَيهِ إلّا مَوتٌ يُبَدِّدُ شَملَهُ ويُفَرِّقُ جَمعَهُ ويُوتِمُ وُلدَهُ، لَكانَ يَنبَغي لَهُ أن يُحاذِرَ ما هُوَ فيهِ بأشَدِّ النَّصَبِ والتّعَبِ. |
| 7– Imam Ali (AS) said, ‘I have never seen faith in a certain decree [i.e.decree] more resembling than the doubt of the human being. Every day he bids farewell to graves and goes to funeral processions, but he returns to the delusion of the world, and he does not relinquish desires and sins. If the poor son of Adam did not have a single sin to deviate him and no reckoning to contemplate with than death that scatters his union, disunites his congregation, orphans his children then it would be a must for him to be cautious of what he is in with the greatest of exhaustion and hardship.’[Bihar al-Anwar, v. 6, p. 137, no. 30] |
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8ـ الإمامُ عليٌّ (عَلَيهِ الّسَلامُ) ـ مِن وَصاياهُ لابنِهِ الحسنِ (عَلَيهِ الّسَلامُ) ـ: اعلَمْ يا بُنَيَّ أنَّكَ إنّما خُلِقتَ للآخِرَةِ لا للدُّنيا، وللفَناءِ لا للبَقاءِ، وللمَوتِ لا للحَياةِ، وأ نَّكَ في قُلعَةٍ ودارِ بُلغَةٍ وطَريقٍ إلَى الآخِرَةِ، وأنّكَ طَريدُ المَوتِ الّذي لايَنجو مِنهُ هارِبُهُ، ولا يَفوتُهُ طالِبُهُ، ولابُدَّ أنّهُ مُدرِكُهُ، فكُن مِنهُ على حَذَرٍ أن يُدرِكَكَ وأنتَ على حالٍ سَيِّئةٍ، قد كنتَ تُحَدِّثُ نفسَكَ مِنها بالتَّوبَةِ فيَحولُ بينَكَ وبينَ ذلكَ، فإذا أنتَ قد أهلَكتَ نفسَكَ . |
| 8– Imam Ali (AS), in his will to Imam al-Hasan (AS) said, ‘My son, know that you have been created for the next world and not for this world, and for annihilation and not to stay, for death and not for life; you are in a transient place, a place which is a path to the Hereafter. You are driving away a death from which no one can run away and which none of its seekers can miss. It has to be experienced so beware lest it catches up with you while you are in a bad state. You should avert your self about it through repentance and it will intervene between you and it, instead of letting yourself perish.’[Nahj al-Balagha, Letter 31] |
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9ـ الإمامُ عليٌّ (عَلَيهِ الّسَلامُ): أنتُم طُرَداءُ المَوتِ، إن أقَمتُم لَهُ أخَذَكُم، وإن فَرَرتُم مِنهُ أدرَكَكُم، وهُو ألزَمُ لَكُم مِن ظِلِّكُم، المَوتُ مَعقودٌ بنَواصيكُم. |
| 9– Imam Ali (AS) said, ‘You are trying to drive death away. If you resist it, it will take you, and if you run from it, it will catch you. It is more stuck to you than your own shadow. Death is attached to your forelocks.’[Nahj al-Balagha, Letter 37] |
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10ـ الإمامُ الصّادقُ (عَلَيهِ الّسَلامُ): ما خَلقَ اللّهُ يَقيناً لا شَكَّ فيهِ أشبَهَ بشَكٍّ لا يَقينَ فيهِ مِن المَوتِ. |
| 10– Imam al-Sadiq (AS) said, ‘Allah has not created an assured decree devoid of uncertainty more similar to an unsurity devoid of certainty like death.’[al-Faqih, v. 1, p. 194, no. 596] |
