Peak of Eloquence Nahjul Balagha By Imam Ali ibn Abu Talib - English Translation - Sermon 42

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About Heart’s Desires and Extended Hopes

O people what I fear most about you are two things - acting
according to desires and the extending of hopes. Acting according to
(personal) desires prevents (the experiential admission of) truth; regarding
extensive hope, it makes one forget the next world. You should know this
world is moving rapidly and nothing has remained out of it except the last
particles like the dregs of a vessel which has been emptied by some one.
Beware, the next world is advancing and either of them has sons i.e.
followers. You should become sons of the next world and not become
sons of this world because on the Day of Judgement every son would
cling to his mother. Today is the Day of action and there is no reckoning
while tomorrow is the Day of reckoning wherein there would be no
(opportunity for) action.