John Shaqi

نهج البلاغة

Nahj al-Balagha

al-Sharif al-Radiالشريف الرضي?406 AH

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Nahj al-Balagha 121

Part of the same sermon on the settlement between Mu'āwiyah and ‘Amr ibn al-‘Āṣ : He did not swear allegiance till he go

Nahj al-Balagha 122

Exhorting people for jihād

Nahj al-Balagha 123

Now then, surely jihād is one of the doors of Paradise, which Allāh has opened for His chief friends. It is the dress of

Nahj al-Balagha 124

Beware! I called you (insistingly) to fight these people night and day, secretly and openly and exhorted you to attack t

Nahj al-Balagha 125

I have come to know that every one of them entered upon Muslim women and other women under protection of Islam and took

Nahj al-Balagha 126

How strange! how strange! By Allāh my heart sinks to see the unity of these people on their wrong and your dispersion fr

Nahj al-Balagha 127

O you semblances of men, not men, your intelligence is that of children and your wit is that of the occupants of the cur

Nahj al-Balagha 128

About the transient nature of this world and importance of the next world This is a section of the Sermon (45) that begi

Nahj al-Balagha 129

So now, surely this world has turned its back and announced its departure while the next world has appeared forward and

Nahj al-Balagha 130

Today is the day of preparation while tomorrow is the day of race. The place to proceed to is Paradise while the place o

Nahj al-Balagha 131

Beware, and act during a period of attraction just as you act during a period of dread. Beware, surely I have not seen a

Nahj al-Balagha 132

as-Sayyid ar-Raḍī says: If there could be an utterance which would drag by neck towards renunciation in this world and f

Nahj al-Balagha 133

His most wonderful words in this sermon are “Today is the day of preparation while tomorrow is the day of race. The plac

Nahj al-Balagha 134

It is his saying that the place to proceed to is Paradise while the place of doom is Hell. Here he has used two differen

Nahj al-Balagha 135

However, it should be taken in the sense of “al-maṣir” or “al-ma’āl”, that is, last resort. Qur’ānic verse is “say thou

Nahj al-Balagha 136

About those who found pretexts at the time of jihād

Nahj al-Balagha 137

O people, your bodies are together but your desires are divergent. Your talk softens the hard stones and your action att

Nahj al-Balagha 138

By Allāh ! Deceived is one whom you have deceived while, by Allāh ! he who is successful with you receives only useless

Nahj al-Balagha 139

Disclosing real facts about assassination of ‘Uthmān ibn ‘Affān [1] Amīr al-mu’minīn said :

Nahj al-Balagha 140

If I had ordered his assassination I should have been his killer, but if I had refrained others from killing him I would

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