حکمت 37: و درود خدا بر او (در سر راه صفین… · Saying 37

وَ قَالَ (عليه السلام): (وَ قَدْ لَقِيَهُ عِنْدَ مَسِيرِهِ إِلَي الشَّامِ دَهَاقِينُ الْأَنْبَارِ فَتَرَجَّلُوا لَهُ وَ اشْتَدُّوا بَيْنَ يَدَيْهِ فَقَالَ مَا هَذَا الَّذِي صَنَعْتُمُوهُ فَقَالُوا خُلُقٌ مِنَّا نُعَظِّمُ بِهِ أُمَرَاءَنَا فَقَالَ:)

وَ اللَّهِ مَا يَنْتَفِعُ بِهَذَا أُمَرَاؤُكُمْ وَ إِنَّكُمْ لَتَشُقُّونَ عَلَي أَنْفُسِكُمْ فِي دُنْيَاكُمْ وَ تَشْقَوْنَ بِهِ فِي آخِرَتِكُمْ وَ مَا أَخْسَرَ الْمَشَقَّةَ وَرَاءَهَا الْعِقَابُ وَ أَرْبَحَ الدَّعَةَ مَعَهَا الْأَمَانُ مِنَ النَّارِ.

Once Amir al-Mu'minin, peace be upon him, was proceeding towards Syria when the contrymen of al-Anbar met him. Seeing him they began to walk on foot and then ran in front of him. He enquired why they were doing so and they replied that this was the way they respected their chiefs. Then he said: By Allah, this does not benefit to your chiefs. You are belabouring yourself in this world and earning misery for the next world by it. How harmful is the labour in whose wake there is punishment and how profitable is the case with which there is deliverance from the Fire (of Hell)