That is why 'Ali (A), in sermon 129, after warning the people of the dangers of worldliness, says:
You live in a period when virtues recede and evils advance step by step, and the Satan becomes greedier in his eagerness to ruin human beings. Today his equipment has been reinforced, his traps are set in every place, and his prey comes easily.
Look around; you will see either a poor man hardly able to breathe in extreme poverty and penury, or a rich man who has transformed God's blessings into his own infidelity, or you will see a miser who makes stinginess in discharging the obligations imposed by God a means of increasing his own wealth, or you will find the rebellious whose unruly hearts are deaf to moral admonition.
Where are the virtuous, the righteous amongst you?
Where are the free men and the magnanimous?
Where are those who avoid every trace of deceit in their dealings and pursue piety and honesty in their ways?
WEDNESDAY, 5th November 2008
"Thou thinkest thou art a small body, but no, in thee the macrocosm is contained"
Imam Ali (A.S)
You live in a period when virtues recede and evils advance step by step, and the Satan becomes greedier in his eagerness to ruin human beings. Today his equipment has been reinforced, his traps are set in every place, and his prey comes easily.
Look around; you will see either a poor man hardly able to breathe in extreme poverty and penury, or a rich man who has transformed God's blessings into his own infidelity, or you will see a miser who makes stinginess in discharging the obligations imposed by God a means of increasing his own wealth, or you will find the rebellious whose unruly hearts are deaf to moral admonition.
Where are the virtuous, the righteous amongst you?
Where are the free men and the magnanimous?
Where are those who avoid every trace of deceit in their dealings and pursue piety and honesty in their ways?
WEDNESDAY, 5th November 2008
"Thou thinkest thou art a small body, but no, in thee the macrocosm is contained"
Imam Ali (A.S)
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