Peak of Eloquence Nahjul Balagha By Imam Ali ibn Abu Talib - English Translation - Sermon 187

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Allah’s Favors

I admonish you, O people, to fear Allah and to praise Him abundantly for His favors unto you, for His reward for you, and [even] for His obligations on you. See how He chose you for favors and dealt with you with mercy. You sinned openly; He kept your sins covered. You behaved in a way to incur His punishment, but He gave you more respite.

Condition of Persons Facing Death

I also admonish you to remember death and to lessen your heedlessness towards it. Why should you be heedless of the One Who is not heedless of you? Why expect from him (i.e. the angel of death) to give you a respite? The dead whom you have been watching suffice as preachers. They were carried to their graves, not riding but transported, and were placed in their graves, but not of their own accord. It seems as if they never lived in this world and as if the next world had always been their abode. They have made lonely the place where they were living and are now living where they used to feel lonely. They remained busy about what they had to leave behind them and did not care about where they were going to. Now, they cannot remove themselves from evil, nor add to

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their virtues. They were attached to the world and it deceived them. They trusted it and it overturned the tables to them.