بسم الله
الرحمن الرحیم
اَلْحَمْدُ
لِلّهِ بِجَمِیعِ مَحَامِدِه کُلِّهَا عَلَی جَمِیعِ نِعَمِهِ کُلِّهَا…
اَلْحَمْدُ لِلّهِ مالِکِ الْمُلْکِ مُجْرِی الْفُلْکِ مُسَخِّرِ الرِّیاحِ فالِقِ
الاْصْباحِ دَیّانِ الدّینِ رَبِّ الْعَالَمینَ اَلْحَمْدُ لِلّهِ عَلی حِلْمِهِ
بَعْدَ عِلمِهِ وَالْحَمْدُ لِلّهِ عَلی عَفْوِهِ بَعْدَ قُدْرَتِهِ وَالْحَمْدُ
لِلّهِ عَلی طُولِ اَناتِهِ فی غَضَبِهِ وَهُوَ قادِرٌ عَلی ما یُریدُ
ثم الصلاه و السلام علی محمد عبده و رسوله ارسله بالهدی و
دین الحق لیظهره علی الدین کله و لو کره المشرکون
اوصیکم
عبادالله و نفسی بتقوی الله و اتباع امره و نهیه، و اخوفکم من عقابه
Twenty-third
Virtue: Spiritual Excellence
يَنْظُرُ
إِلَيْهِمُ النَّاظِرُ فَيَحْسَبُهُمْ مَرْضَى ومَا بِالْقَوْمِ مِنْ مَرَضٍ
ويَقُولُ لَقَدْ خُولِطُوا ولَقَدْ خَالَطَهُمْ أَمْرٌ عَظِيمٌ
The viewer
thinks that they are sick but they are not sick because they hear what they do
not understand and say that they are mad but they are not mad, and instead
they are thinking to a great thing the
idea of resurrection that Is mixed with their minds.
The people of
piety differ in their social behavior and in their speeches, which are
sometimes incomprehensible to ordinary people, who regard them as insane with
their own standards of behavior. This spiritual difference can be realized in
three ways:
1.Excessive
activity
Ordinary
people are reluctant to do the hard work and they try to choose the simple
ones, but the virtues people accept the responsibility of doing such tasks.
Amir al-Mu minin in the sermon of komeyl says about the people who are suitable
for carrying the science of Ahlul-Bayt:
وَاسْتَلاَنُوا
مَا اسْتَوْعَرَهُ الْمُتْرَفُونَ وَأَنِسُوا بِمَا اسْتَوْحَشَ مِنْهُ
الْجَاهِلُونَ، وَصَحِبُوا الدُّنْيَا بِأَبْدَانٍ أَرْوَاحُهَا مُعَلَّقَةٌ
بِالْمَحَلِّ الْأَعْلَى. نهج البلاغه، حکمت 143
That
which is hard upon the seekers of comforts comes easy to them. They endear what
the ignorant regard with aversion. They live in the world with their bodies,
but their spirits are in a higher realm.
2. Being busy
There is no
perfect human except the Masumin . Some have fewer imperfections and some more,
so reason and wisdom require man to correct his own flaws rather than others,
and virtuous humans are so self-correcting that they cannot afford to treat
others.
In principle,
anyone who corrects his or her fault does not have an opportunity to
troubleshoot others faults, and even if he has the time he is ashamed to disparage others. Amir
al-mumenin says:
مَنْ نَظَرَ
فِي عَيْبِ نَفْسِهِ اشْتَغَلَ عَنْ عَيْبِ غَيْره
He who sees
his own shortcomings abstains from looking into other s shortcomings.
طُوبَى لِمَنْ
شَغَلَهُ عَيبُهُ عَنْ عُيوبِ النَّاسِ
Blessed is
the man who has been detained by his own defects from noticing the defects of
other people.
Imam Sadeq
peace be upon him says:
ثَلاثَةٌ فِى ظِلِّ عَرْشِ اللَّهِ
عَزَّوَجَلَّ يوْمَ لا ظِلَّ إِلاَّ ظِلُّهُ:
رَجُلٌ أَنْصَفَ النَّاسَ مِنْ
نَفْسِهِ؛
وَرَجُلٌ لَمْ يُقَدِّمْ رِجْلاً وَلَمْ
يُوَخِّرْ رِجْلاً أُخْرَى حَتَّى يَعْلَمَ أَنَّ ذَلِکَ لِلَّهِ عَزَّوَجَلَّ رِضًى
أَوْ سَخَطٌ؛
وَرَجُلٌ لَمْ يعِبْ أَخَاهُ بِعَيبٍ
حَتَّى ينْفِى ذَلِکَ الْعَيبَ مِنْ نَفْسِهِ فَإِنَّهُ لا ينْفِى مِنْهَا عَيباً
إِلاَّ بَدَا لَهُ عَيبٌ آخَرُ؛
وَكَفَى بِالْمَرْءِ شُغُلاً بِنَفْسِهِ
عَنِ النَّاسِ؛
There are three groups in the light of
the Throne of God, on the Day of Judgment, on a day where there is no light but
His.
Those who observe justice for their
rights and others;
And those who do not go back and forth
until they know that God is pleased with or anger with this step;
And those who take no fault for their
brother unless they first remove the fault from their self, for man does not
remedy any fault unless another fault is revealed to him;
And engaging in self-care is enough to
deter a man not to dealing with faults of others.
Of course, this is not meant to quit
looking for faults, but to speak of the imperfections of others as a
prohibition of evil and to modify those attributes in a way that does not harm
their respect or personality is a very good thing, and in many cases it is
obligatory.
3.Thiniknig of
Resurrection in every action
The virtuous think of the end result
In all of their works. While the general public is busy with worldly affairs
and happy or sad about the joys and sorrows of worldly life, the righteous
measure everything by the standards of the Hereafter. Their happiness is not
that of ordinary people. Their thoughts, beliefs and concerns are different
from others. The affairs of the resurrection, the horror of the consequences,
the embarrassment of accountability, the embarrassment of failure, and so on.
Amir al-Mu minin Ali AS draws
attention to their past history and reflects on their works as a reminder of
the facts that one often overlooks, and acts against, in their lives:
أوَلَیسَ لکم فی آثار الأوّلین مُزدَجَر، و فی آبائکم الماضین تبصرة
و مُعتبَرة إن کنتم تعقلون؟! أوَلَم تَرَوْا إلی الماضین منکم لایرجعون، وإلی
الخلف الباقین لایَبْقَون؟!… ألا فاذکروا هاذم اللذات و منغّض الشهوات… و
استعینوااللّه علی أداء واجب حقّه… نهج البلاغه، خطبه99
Is not there for
you a warning in the relics of the predecessors and an eye opener and lesson in
your fore-fathers, provided you understand?
Do you not see
that your predecessors do not come back and the surviving followers do not
remain? Do you not observe that the people of the world pass mornings and
evenings in different conditions?
Beware! At the
time of committing evil deeds remember the destroyer of joys,
Seek assistance
of Allah for fulfilment of His obligatory rights.