قَالَ عَلِيُّ بْنُ الْحُسَيْنِ ( صلوات الله عليه ) إِنَّ الدُّنْيَا قَدِ ارْتَحَلَتْ مُدْبِرَةً وَ إِنَّ الْآخِرَةَ قَدِ ارْتَحَلَتْ مُقْبِلَةً وَ لِكُلِّ وَاحِدَةٍ مِنْهُمَا بَنُونَ فَكُونُوا مِنْ أَبْنَاءِ الْآخِرَةِ وَ لَا تَكُونُوا مِنْ أَبْنَاءِ الدُّنْيَا أَلَا وَ كُونُوا مِنَ الزَّاهِدِينَ فِي الدُّنْيَا الرَّاغِبِينَ فِي الْآخِرَةِ أَلَا إِنَّ الزَّاهِدِينَ فِي الدُّنْيَا اتَّخَذُوا الْأَرْضَ بِسَاطاً وَ التُّرَابَ فِرَاشاً وَ الْمَاءَ طِيباً وَ قُرِّضُوا مِنَ الدُّنْيَا تَقْرِيضاً أَلَا وَ مَنِ اشْتَاقَ إِلَى الْجَنَّةِ سَلَا عَنِ الشَّهَوَاتِ وَ مَنْ أَشْفَقَ مِنَ النَّارِ رَجَعَ عَنِ الْمُحَرَّمَاتِ وَ مَنْ زَهِدَ فِي الدُّنْيَا هَانَتْ عَلَيْهِ الْمَصَائِبُ أَلَا إِنَّ لِلَّهِ عِبَاداً كَمَنْ رَأَى أَهْلَ الْجَنَّةِ فِي الْجَنَّةِ مُخَلَّدِينَ وَ كَمَنْ رَأَى أَهْلَ النَّارِ فِي النَّارِ مُعَذَّبِينَ شُرُورُهُمْ مَأْمُونَةٌ وَ قُلُوبُهُمْ مَحْزُونَةٌ أَنْفُسُهُمْ عَفِيفَةٌ وَ حَوَائِجُهُمْ خَفِيفَةٌ صَبَرُوا أَيَّاماً قَلِيلَةً فَصَارُوا بِعُقْبَى رَاحَةٍ طَوِيلَةٍ أَمَّا اللَّيْلَ فَصَافُّونَ أَقْدَامَهُمْ تَجْرِي دُمُوعُهُمْ عَلَى خُدُودِهِمْ وَ هُمْ يَجْأَرُونَ إِلَى رَبِّهِمْ يَسْعَوْنَ فِي فَكَاكِ رِقَابِهِمْ وَ أَمَّا النَّهَارَ فَحُلَمَاءُ عُلَمَاءُ بَرَرَةٌ أَتْقِيَاءُ كَأَنَّهُمْ الْقِدَاحُ قَدْ بَرَاهُمُ الْخَوْفُ مِنَ الْعِبَادَةِ يَنْظُرُ إِلَيْهِمُ النَّاظِرُ فَيَقُولُ مَرْضَى وَ مَا بِالْقَوْمِ مِنْ مَرَضٍ أَمْ خُولِطُوا فَقَدْ خَالَطَ الْقَوْمَ أَمْرٌ عَظِيمٌ مِنْ ذِكْرِ النَّارِ وَ مَا فِيهَا .
Translation
From him, from Ali Bin Al Hakam, from Umar Bin Aban, from Abu Hamza, (It has been narrated) from Abu Ja’far<sup>asws</sup> having said: ‘Ali<sup>asws</sup> Bin Al-Husayn<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘The world is travelling away from you and the Hereafter is travelling towards you, and for each one of the those are (like being) sons (to). So be from the sons of the Hereafter and do not become from the sons of the world; and become from the ascetics in the world desirous for the Hereafter. Indeed! The ascetics in the world are taking the ground as a habitat and the dust as a bedding and the water as a perfurme, and have cut off from the world with a cutting off. Indeed! The one who is desirous to the Paradise would rein himself from the lustful desires, and the one fearful from the Fire would retract from the Prohibitions, and the one ascetic in the world, the difficulties would become easire upon him. Indeed! For Allah<sup style="font-weight: normal">azwj</sup> there are such servants as if they can see the people of the Paradise being in the Paradise eternally, and like the ones who see the people of the Fire being Punished in the Fire. Their wickedness is safe (locked away), and their hearts are grieving, their selves are chaste, and their needs are light. They are observing patience for a few days and they would end up with a prolonged rest. As for the night, so they are forming a row with their feet, their tears flowing upon their cheeks, and they are supplicating to their Lord<sup style="font-weight: normal">azwj</sup> striving to free their necks (from the Fire). And as for the day, so they are forbearing, scholarly, righteous, pious, as if like the arrows freed from the fins (slim) due to worship. The beholder would look at them and he would be saying, ‘A sickness’; and (but) there is no sickness with the group or any confusion, for the group has indulged in a great matter from the remembrance of the Fire and whatever is in it’.
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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