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Hadith 1426
Hadith #
1426
Book
Nahj al-Balāgha
Volume
1
Section
45
Part
Letters
Chapter
To the governor of Basra upon learning that he had accepted an invitation to a lavish banquet
Source
al-Sharīf al-Raḍī
۞
By Allāh, if you had been a visible personality and a body capable of feeling, I would have awarded you the penalties fixed by Allāh because of the people whom you received through desires and the communities whom you threw into destruction and the rulers whom you consigned to ruin and drove to places of distress after which there is neither going nor returning. Indeed whoever stepped on your slippery place slipped, whoever rode your waves was drowned, and whoever evaded your snares received inward support. He who keeps himself safe from you does not worry even though his affairs may be straitened and the world to him is like a day which is near expiring.
وَاللهِ لَوْ كُنْتِ شَخْصاً مَرْئِيّاً، وَقَالَباً حِسِّيّاً، لَأَقَمْتُ عَلَيْكِ حُدُودَ اللهِ فِي عِبَادٍ غَرَرْتِهِمْ بِالْأَمَانِيِّ، وَأُمَمٍ أَلْقَيْتِهِمْ فِي الْمَهَاوِي، وَمُلُوكٍ أَسْلَمْتِهِمْ إِلَى التَّلَفِ، وَأَوْرَدْتِهِمْ مَوَارِدَ الْبَلَاءِ، إِذْ لَا وِرْدَ وَلَا صَدَرَ! هَيْهَاتَ! مَنْ وَطِئَ دَحْضَكِ زَلِقَ، وَمَنْ رَكِبَ لُجَجَكِ غَرِقَ، وَمَنِ ازْوَرَّ عَنْ حَبَائِلِكِ وُفِّقَ، وَالسَّالِمُ مِنْكِ لَا يُبَالِي إِنْ ضَاقَ بِهِ مُنَاخُهُ وَالدُّنْيَا عِنْدَهُ كَيَوْمٍ حَانَ انْسِلاَخُهُ.
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