Peak of Eloquence Nahjul Balagha By Imam Ali ibn Abu Talib - English Translation - Sermon 63

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About Decline and Destruction of the World
O servants of Allah! Fear Allah and anticipate your death by good
actions. Purchase everlasting joy by paying transitory things - pleasures of
this world. Get ready for the journey, for you are being driven and prepare
yourselves for death, since it is hovering over you. Be a people who wake
up when called and who know that this world is not their abode and so
have changed it (with the next).
Certainly, Allah has not created you aimlessly nor left you
useless. There is nothing between anyone of you and Paradise or Hell
except death that must befall him. The life that is being shortened every
moment and being dismantled every hour must be regarded very short.
The hidden thing, namely death, which is being driven (to you) by two
phenomena which are day and night is certainly quick to approach. The
traveler which is approaching with success or failure (namely death)
deserves the best of provision. So acquire such provision from this world
while you are here with which you may shield yourself tomorrow (on the
Day of Judgement).
So everyone should fear Allah, admonish himself, send forward
his repentance and overpower his desire because his death is hidden from
him, his desires deceive him and Satan is posted on him. He beautifies sin
for him so that he may commit it and prompts him to delay repentance till
his desires make him the most negligent. Piety is for thenegligent person
whose life itself would be a proof against him and his own days (passed in
sin) would lead him to punishment.
We ask Allah, the Glorified One, that He may make us and you
like one whom bounty does not mislead, whom nothing can stop from
obedience of Allah and whom shame and grief do not befall after death.