قَالَ إِذَا أَتَتْ عَلَى الرَّجُلِ أَرْبَعُونَ سَنَةً قِيلَ لَهُ خُذْ حِذْرَكَ فَإِنَّكَ غَيْرُ مَعْذُورٍ وَ لَيْسَ ابْنُ الْأَرْبَعِينَ بِأَحَقَّ بِالْحِذْرِ مِنِ ابْنِ الْعِشْرِينَ فَإِنَّ الَّذِي يَطْلُبُهُمَا وَاحِدٌ وَ لَيْسَ بِرَاقِدٍ فَاعْمَلْ لِمَا أَمَامَكَ مِنَ الْهَوْلِ وَ دَعْ عَنْكَ فُضُولَ الْقَوْلِ .
Translation
And from him, raising it, (It has been narrated) from Abu Ja’far<sup>asws</sup> having said: ‘When a man comes to the age of forty it is said to him: ‘Take a caution, for you are without an excuse’, and there is no person of forty (years of age) more rightful with the caution than a person of twenty, for what is seeking them both, is the one (death) and it is not sleeping. Therefore, work for what is in front of you from the horrors and stay away from the useless speech’.
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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