ضرورت واقع بینی And then, sometimes a person feels joyful about a thing which he was not to miss in any case and feels grieved for a thing which was not to…
و من كتاب له (عليه السلام) إلي عبد الله بن العباس و قد تقدم ذكره بخلاف هذه الرواية
أَمَّا بَعْدُ فَإِنَّ الْمَرْءَ لَيَفْرَحُ بِالشَّيْءِ الَّذِي لَمْ يَكُنْ لِيَفُوتَهُ وَ يَحْزَنُ عَلَي الشَّيْءِ الَّذِي لَمْ يَكُنْ لِيُصِيبَهُ فَلَا يَكُنْ أَفْضَلَ مَا نِلْتَ فِي نَفْسِكَ مِنْ دُنْيَاكَ بُلُوغُ لَذَّةٍ أَوْ شِفَاءُ غَيْظٍ وَ لَكِنْ إِطْفَاءُ بَاطِلٍ أَوْ إِحْيَاءُ حَقٍّ وَ لْيَكُنْ سُرُورُكَ بِمَا قَدَّمْتَ وَ أَسَفُكَ عَلَي مَا خَلَّفْتَ وَ هَمُّكَ فِيمَا بَعْدَ الْمَوْتِ.
And then, sometimes a person feels joyful about a thing which he was not to miss in any case and feels grieved for a thing which was not to come to him at all. Therefore, you should not regard the attainment of pleasure and the satisfaction of the desire for revenge as the best favour of this world, but it should be the putting off of the (flame of) wrong and the revival of right. Your pleasure should be for what (good acts) you have sent forward; your grief should be for what you are leaving behind; and your worry should be about what is to befall after death.
Source: Nahj al-Balagha, compiled by al-Sharif al-Radi. Persian: ترجمه محمد دشتی (Mohammad Dashti). English: Translation by Sayed Ali Reza (letters, sayings and sermons 1–16). Text from github.com/WWGTX/NahjulBalaghah. · Free for non-commercial religious use, with attribution