John Shaqi

فَقُلْتُ لَهُ : ثَكِلَتْكَ الثَّوَاكِلُ، يَا عَقِيلُ ! أَتَئِنُّ مِنْ حَدِيدَة أَحْمَاهَا إِنْسَانُهَا لِلَعِبِهِ، وَتَجُرُّنِي إِلَى نَار سَجَرَهَا جَبَّارُهَا لِغَضَبِهِ! أَتَئِنُّ مِنَ الاَذَى وَلاَ أَئِنُّ مِنْ لَظىً؟


Translation

Then I said to him, “Moaning women may moan over you, O ‘Aqīl. Do you cry on account of this (heated) iron which has been made by a man for fun while you are driving me towards the fire which Allāh, the Powerful, has prepared for (a manifestation of) His wrath? Should you cry from pain, but I should not cry from the flames?”


Chapter (Bab)Keeping aloof from oppression, on the poverty of his brother, Aqil
CollectionNahj al-Balagha

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