Peak of Eloquence Nahjul Balagha By Imam Ali ibn Abu Talib - English Translation - Sermon 231

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On the Inability of Ja’dah Ibn Hubayrah Al-Makhzumi to Deliver a Sermon.
About Speaking the Truth :

Be informed that the tongue is part of a man’s body. If the man desists,
speech will not cooperate with him, and when he dilates, speech will not give him time to stop. Certainly, we are the masters of speech. Its veins are fixed
in us and its branches are hanging over us. Be informed, may Allah have
mercy on you, that you are living at a time when those who speak about right are few, when tongues are loath to utter the truth and those who stick to what is right are humiliated. The people of this time are engaged in disobedience. Their youths are wicked, their old men are sinful, their learned men are
hypocrites and their speakers are psychopathics. Their youths do not respect their elders and their rich do not support the destitute.