Peak of Eloquence Nahjul Balagha By Imam Ali ibn Abu Talib - English Translation - Sermon 28

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About the Transient Nature of this World and the
Importance of the next World
So now, surely this world has turned its back and announced its
departure while the next world has appeared forward and proclaimed its
approach. Today is the day of preparation while tomorrow is the day of
race. The place to proceed to is Paradise while the place of doom is Hell.
Is there no one to offer repentance over his faults before his death? Or is
there no one to perform virtuous acts before the day of trial?
Beware, surely you are in the days of hopes behind which stands
death. Whoever acts during the days of his hope before the approach of
his death, his action would benefit him and his death would not harm him.
But he who fails to act during the period of hope before the approach of
death, his action is a loss and his death will harm him. Beware and act
during a period of attraction just as you act during a period of dread.
Beware, surely I have not seen one who covets Paradise asleep nor dreads
Hell to be asleep. Beware, he whom right does not benefit must suffer the
harm of the wrong and he whom guidance does not keep firm will be led
away by misguidance towards destruction.
Beware, you have been ordered insistently to march and have
been guided as how to provide for the journey. Surely the most
frightening thing which I am afraid of about you is to follow desires and
to widen the hopes. Provide for yourself from this world what would save
you tomorrow (on the Day of Judgement).