Peak of Eloquence Nahjul Balagha By Imam Ali ibn Abu Talib - English Translation - Sermon 88

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About the Holy Prophet (􀁨):
Allah sent the Prophet (􀁨) when the mission of other Prophets
had stopped and the peoples were in slumber a long time. Evils were
raising heads, all matters were under disruption and in flames of wars,
while the world was devoid of brightness and full of open deceitfulness.
Its leaves had turned yellow and there was absence of hope about its
fruits. Water had gone underground. The minarets of guidance had
disappeared and signs of destruction had appeared. It was stern to its
people and frowned in the face of its seeker. Its fruit was vice and its food
was carcass. Its inner outfit was fear and outer cover was the sword.
So take lesson, O servants of Allah, and recall that (evil doing)
with which your fathers and brothers are entangled and for which they
have to account. By my life, your time is not much behind theirs, nor have
long periods or centuries lapsed between you and them, nor are you much
distant from when you were in their loins.
By Allah, whatever the Prophet (􀁨) told them, I am here telling
you the same and whatever you hear today is not different from what they
heard yesterday. The eyes that were opened for them and the hearts that
were made for them at that time, just the same have been given to you at
this time. By Allah, you have not been told anything that they did not
know and you have not been deprived of anything which they were
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deprived of. Certainly you have been afflicted by a calamity (which is like
a she-camel) whose nose-string is moving about and whose strap is loose.
So in whatever condition these deceitful people are should not deceive
you because it is just a long shadow whose term is fixed.