About those who found pretexts at the time of jihad

Nahj al-Balāgha · Volume 1 · Section 29 · 3 narrations

Hadith 137

O people, your bodies are together but your desires are divergent. Your talk softens the hard stones and your action attracts your enemy towards you. You claim in your sittings that you would do this and that, but when…

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Hadith 138

By Allāh ! Deceived is one whom you have deceived while, by Allāh ! he who is successful with you receives only useless arrows. You are like broken arrows thrown over the enemy. By Allāh? I am now in the position that I…

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