Peak of Eloquence Nahjul Balagha By Imam Ali ibn Abu Talib - English Translation - Sermon 34

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To Prepare the People for Fighting with the People of Syria
(Ash-sham) Amir Al-Mu’minin (􀁸) Said:
Woe unto you! I am tired of rebuking you. Do you accept this
worldly life in place of the next life? Or disgrace in place of dignity?
When I invite you to fight your enemy your eyes revolve as though you
are in the clutches of death and in the senselessness of last moments. My
pleadings are not understood by you and you remain stunned. It is as
though your hearts are affected with madness so that you do not
understand. You have lost my confidence for good. Neither are you a
support for me to lean upon nor a means to honor and victory. Your
example is that of the camels whose protector has disappeared, so that if
they are collected from one side they disperse away from the other side.
By Allah, how bad are you for igniting flames of war. You are
intrigued against but do not intrigue (against the enemy). Your boundaries
are decreasing but you do not get enraged over it. Those against you do
not sleep but you are unmindful. By Allah, those who leave matters one
for the other are subdued. By Allah, I believed about you that if battle
rages and death hovers around you, you will cut away from son of Abu
Talib like the severing of head from the trunk.132
By Allah, he who makes it possible for his adversary to so
overpower him as to remove the flesh (from his bones), crush his bones
and cut his skin into pieces, then it means that his helplessness is great
and that his heart surrounded within the sides of his chest is weak. You
may become like this if you wish. But for me, before I allow it I shall use
my sharp-edged swords of al-Mushrafiyyah which would cut under the
bones of the head and cause arms and feet to fly. Thereafter, Allah will do
whatever He wills.s I was for them yesterday. you.