Peak of Eloquence Nahjul Balagha By Imam Ali ibn Abu Talib - English Translation - Sermon 144

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About this World
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O people! You are, in this world, the target for the arrows of
death. With every drinking there is choking and with every eating there is
suffocation. You do not get any benefit in it except by foregoing another
(benefit) and no one among you advances in age by a day except by the
taking away of a day from his life. Nothing more is added to his eating
unless it reduces what was there before. No mark appears for him unless a
mark disappears. Nothing new comes into being unless the new becomes
old. No new crop comes up unless a crop has been reaped. Those roots are
gone whose off-shoots we are. How can an off-shoot live after the
departure of its root?
Part of the same sermon: on Innovation (bid’a):.
No innovation is introduced unless one Sunnah is forsaken, keep
away from innovations and stick to the broad road. Surely the old tested
ways are he best and the innovated ones are bad.’.”