قَالَ أَبُو عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) كَتَبَ أَمِيرُ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ ( عليه السلام ) إِلَى بَعْضِ أَصْحَابِهِ يَعِظُهُ أُوصِيكَ وَ نَفْسِي بِتَقْوَى مَنْ لَا تَحِلُّ مَعْصِيَتُهُ وَ لَا يُرْجَى غَيْرُهُ وَ لَا الْغِنَى إِلَّا بِهِ فَإِنَّ مَنِ اتَّقَى اللَّهَ جَلَّ وَ عَزَّ وَ قَوِيَ وَ شَبِعَ وَ رَوِيَ وَ رُفِعَ عَقْلُهُ عَنْ أَهْلِ الدُّنْيَا فَبَدَنُهُ مَعَ أَهْلِ الدُّنْيَا وَ قَلْبُهُ وَ عَقْلُهُ مُعَايِنُ الْآخِرَةِ فَأَطْفَأَ بِضَوْءِ قَلْبِهِ مَا أَبْصَرَتْ عَيْنَاهُ مِنْ حُبِّ الدُّنْيَا فَقَذَّرَ حَرَامَهَا وَ جَانَبَ شُبُهَاتِهَا وَ أَضَرَّ وَ اللَّهِ بِالْحَلَالِ الصَّافِي إِلَّا مَا لَا بُدَّ لَهُ مِنْ كِسْرَةٍ مِنْهُ يَشُدُّ بِهَا صُلْبَهُ وَ ثَوْبٍ يُوَارِي بِهِ عَوْرَتَهُ مِنْ أَغْلَظِ مَا يَجِدُ وَ أَخْشَنِهِ وَ لَمْ يَكُنْ لَهُ فِيمَا لَا بُدَّ لَهُ مِنْهُ ثِقَةٌ وَ لَا رَجَاءٌ فَوَقَعَتْ ثِقَتُهُ وَ رَجَاؤُهُ عَلَى خَالِقِ الْأَشْيَاءِ فَجَدَّ وَ اجْتَهَدَ وَ أَتْعَبَ بَدَنَهُ حَتَّى بَدَتِ الْأَضْلَاعُ وَ غَارَتِ الْعَيْنَانِ فَأَبْدَلَ اللَّهُ لَهُ مِنْ ذَلِكَ قُوَّةً فِي بَدَنِهِ وَ شِدَّةً فِي عَقْلِهِ وَ مَا ذُخِرَ لَهُ فِي الْآخِرَةِ أَكْثَرُ فَارْفُضِ الدُّنْيَا فَإِنَّ حُبَّ الدُّنْيَا يُعْمِي وَ يُصِمُّ وَ يُبْكِمُ وَ يُذِلُّ الرِّقَابَ فَتَدَارَكْ مَا بَقِيَ مِنْ عُمُرِكَ وَ لَا تَقُلْ غَداً أَوْ بَعْدَ غَدٍ فَإِنَّمَا هَلَكَ مَنْ كَانَ قَبْلَكَ بِإِقَامَتِهِمْ عَلَى الْأَمَانِيِّ وَ التَّسْوِيفِ حَتَّى أَتَاهُمْ أَمْرُ اللَّهِ بَغْتَةً وَ هُمْ غَافِلُونَ فَنُقِلُوا عَلَى أَعْوَادِهِمْ إِلَى قُبُورِهِمُ الْمُظْلِمَةِ الضَّيِّقَةِ وَ قَدْ أَسْلَمَهُمُ الْأَوْلَادُ وَ الْأَهْلُونَ فَانْقَطِعْ إِلَى اللَّهِ بِقَلْبٍ مُنِيبٍ مِنْ رَفْضِ الدُّنْيَا وَ عَزْمٍ لَيْسَ فِيهِ انْكِسَارٌ وَ لَا انْخِزَالٌ أَعَانَنَا اللَّهُ وَ إِيَّاكَ عَلَى طَاعَتِهِ وَ وَفَّقَنَا اللَّهُ وَ إِيَّاكَ لِمَرْضَاتِهِ .
Translation
Ali Bin Ibrahim, from Muhammad Bin Isa, from Yunus, from Abu Jameela who said, ‘Abu Abdullah<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘Amir Al-Mominen<sup>asws</sup> wrote to one of his<sup>asws</sup> companions advising him: ‘I<sup>asws</sup> hereby advise you, and myself<sup>asws</sup> with fearing the One<sup>azwj</sup> the disobedience to Whom is not Permissible. Neither can anyone else be hoped to nor can anyone be self-sufficient except by Him<sup>azwj</sup>, for the one who fears Allah<sup>azwj</sup> Majestic and Mighty would be strong, and satiated and quenched, and his intellect would be higher than the people of the world. So his body would be with the people of the world but his heart and mind would be eyeing the Hereafter. Thus, he would extinguish by the illumination of his heart, whatever his eyes visualize from the love of the world. So he considers its Prohibitions as filthy and keeps aside from its doubtful matters, which would harm (him), by Allah<sup>azwj</sup>, with the clear Permissible, except what is inevitable for him from its crumbs, intensifying his backbone with it, and a (piece of) cloth to cover his nakedness with from the most coarse of what he can find and its roughest. And there does not happen to be for him, regarding what is inevitable for him from it, neither any reliability nor hope. So his reliance and his hopes are upon the Creator of the things, therefore he struggles, and strives, and exhausts his body until his ribs are manifested and his two eyes sink. So Allah<sup>azwj</sup> Exchanges for him, from that, strength in his body, and intensity in his intellect, and whatever He<sup>azwj</sup> has Treasured for him in the Hereafter is more. Therefore, reject the world, for the love of the world would blind, and deaf and mute, and would disgrace the necks. So manage whatever is remaining from your life and do not say, ‘Tomorrow’, or ‘After tomorrow’, for rather, destroyed were the ones who were before you by their staying upon their aspirations and their procrastinations until the Command of Allah<sup>azwj</sup> came to them suddenly and they were oblivious. So they were transferred upon the planks (of wood) into their graves, the dark, the narrow, and the children and the family members had submitted them. So he was cut-off to Allah<sup>azwj</sup> with a penitent heart from rejecting the world and a determination where was not breakage nor betrayal. May Allah<sup>azwj</sup> Assist us<sup>asws</sup> and you upon obeying Him<sup>azwj</sup>, and may Allah<sup>azwj</sup> Harmonise us<sup>asws</sup> and you to His<sup>azwj</sup> Pleasure’.
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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