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الإمام علي (عليه السَّلام):
إنّ أولياءَ اللّهِ هُمُ الذينَ نَظَروا إلى باطِنِ الدُّنيا إذا نَظَرَ النّاسُ إلى ظاهِرِها، واشتَغَلوا بآجِلِها إذا اشتَغَلَ النّاسُ بعاجِلِها، فأماتُوا مِنها ما خَشَوا أن يُميتَهُم، وتَرَكوا مِنها ما عَلِموا أنّهُ سَيَترُكُهُم، وَرأوا استِكثارَ غَيرِهِم مِنها استِقلالًا، وَدَركَهُم لَها فَوتا، أعداءُ ما سالَمَ النّاسُ، وسِلمُ ما عادَى النّاسُ! بِهِم عُلِمَ الكِتابُ وبِهِ عَلِموا، وبِهِم قامَ الكِتابُ وبهِ قاموا، لا يَرَونَ مَرجُوّا فَوقَ ما يَرجُونَ، ولا مَخُوفا فَوقَ ما يَخافونَ.

The friends of Allah are those who look at the inward reality of the world while the other people look at its outer aspect; they busy themselves with its remoter benefits while the other people busy themselves in the immediate benefits. They destroy those things which they fear could ruin them, and they abandon here in this world what they believe would abandon them. They take the amassing of wealth by others as a small matter and regard it as a loss. They are enemies of those things which others love while they love things which others hate. Through them the Qur'an has been learnt and they have been given knowledge through the Qur'an. With them the Qur'an is staying while they stand by the Qur'an. They do not see any object of hope above what they hope in and no object of fear above what they fear.
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Source: Nahj al-Balāgha No432
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title
Nahj al-Balāgha
author
Abū l-Ḥasan Muḥammad b. al-Ḥusayn al-Mūsawī (Arabic: أبوالحسن محمد بن الحسین الموسوي) (b. 359/969-70 - d. Muharram 6, 406/June 26, 1015) al-Sharīf al-Raḍī (Arabic: الشريف الرضي) was a prominent Shi'a scholar and poet born in Baghdad. Although he is most known for his literary expertise, he was also an expert of jurisprudence and exegesis of the Quran. His most famous work is Nahj al-Balagha, a collection of Imam Ali's (a) sayings and letters. He founded a school named Dar al-'Ilm ( دار العلم, literally "House of knowledge") in which he trained many students, some of whom later became prominent scholars.
year
1372
publisher
Hejrat

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