Nahj al-Balāgha · Volume 1 · Section 28 · 8 narrations
About the transient nature of this world and importance of the next world This is a section of the Sermon (45) that begins: ‘All praise belongs to Allah from Whose mercy no one loses hope…’ . It contains 11 exhortations
Read the full narration →So now, surely this world has turned its back and announced its departure while the next world has appeared forward and proclaimed its approach.
Read the full narration →Today is the day of preparation while tomorrow is the day of race. The place to proceed to is Paradise while the place of doom is Hell. Is there no one to offer repentance over his faults before his death? Or is there no…
Read the full narration →Beware, and act during a period of attraction just as you act during a period of dread. Beware, surely I have not seen a coveter for Paradise asleep nor a deserter from hell to be asleep. Beware, he whom right does not…
Read the full narration →as-Sayyid ar-Raḍī says: If there could be an utterance which would drag by neck towards renunciation in this world and force to action for the, next world, it is this sermon. It is enough to cut off from the…
Read the full narration →His most wonderful words in this sermon are “Today is the day of preparation while tomorrow is the day of race. The place to proceed to is Paradise while the place of doom is Hell,” because besides sublimity of words,…
Read the full narration →It is his saying that the place to proceed to is Paradise while the place of doom is Hell. Here he has used two different words to convey two different meanings. For Paradise he has used the word “the place to proceed…
Read the full narration →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 Enjoy ye (your pleasures yet a while) for your last resort is unto the (hell) fire” (14:30). Here to…
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