Eternal Words Nahj al-Balaghah Sermons SERMON 82 - About the World and its People
SERMON 82 - About the World and its People
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How shall I describe this world whose beginning is grief and whose end is destruction? The lawful actions performed here have to be accounted for, while for the forbidden one there is punishment. Whoever is rich here faces mischief and whoever is poor gets grief. One who hankers after it does not get it. If one keeps away from it then it advances towards him. If one sees through it, it would bestow him sight, but if one has his eye on it then it would blind him.
Sayyid ar-Razi says the following: “If a thinker thinks over this phrase of Imam Ali ibn Aba Talib (p.b.u.h.) waman absara biha bassarat’hu (If one sees through it, it would bestow him sight), he would find the rein a very amazing meaning and far-reaching sense the purpose of which cannot be appreciated and whose aim cannot be understood particularly when he joins it with Imam Ali ibn Aba Talib’s phrase waman absara ilayha a a`matahu (If one has his eye on it, then it would blind him), he would find the difference between absara biha and absara laha, clear, bright, wonderful and shining.”
