لَقَدْ نَظَرُوا إِلَيْهِمْ بِأَبْصَارِ الْعَشْوَةِ وَ...
لَقَدْ نَظَرُوا إِلَيْهِمْ بِأَبْصَارِ الْعَشْوَةِ وَ ضَرَبُوا مِنْهُمْ فِي غَمْرَةِ جَهَالَةٍ وَ لَوِ اسْتَنْطَقُوا عَنْهُمْ عَرَصَاتِ تِلْكَ الدِّيَارِ الْخَاوِيَةِ وَ الرُّبُوعِ الْخَالِيَةِ لَقَالَتْ ذَهَبُوا فِي الْأَرْضِ ضُلَّالًا وَ ذَهَبْتُمْ فِي أَعْقَابِهِمْ جُهَّالًا تَطَئُونَ فِي هَامِهِمْ وَ تَسْتَنْبِتُونَ فِي أَجْسَادِهِمْ وَ تَرْتَعُونَ فِيمَا لَفَظُوا وَ تَسْكُنُونَ فِيمَا خَرَّبُوا They had looked at them with the weak sights, and they struck from them in the wading of ignorance, and if they could speak on their behalf, the plains of those ruined houses and vacant courtyards, these would say, ‘They have gone in the ground as strayers’, and you are going in their heels in ignorance, treading in their skulls, and building buildings upon their bodies and cultivating in what had uttered, and dwelling in what they had ruined.
وَ إِنَّمَا الْأَيَّامُ بَيْنَكُمْ وَ بَيْنَهُمْ بَوَاكٍ وَ نَوَائِحُ عَلَيْكُمْ أُولَئِكُمْ سَلَفُ غَايَتِكُمْ وَ فُرَّاطُ مَنَاهِلِكُمْ الَّذِينَ كَانَتْ لَهُمْ مَقَاوِمُ الْعِزِّ وَ حَلَبَاتُ الْفَخْرِ مُلُوكاً وَ سُوَقاً سَلَكُوا فِي بُطُونِ الْبَرْزَخِ سَبِيلًا سُلِّطَتِ الْأَرْضُ عَلَيْهِمْ فِيهِ فَأَكَلَتْ مِنْ لُحُومِهِمْ وَ شَرِبَتْ مِنْ دِمَائِهِمْ And rather the days between you and them are crying and lamenting upon you all.
They are your predecessors in their peak and ahead in reaching the watering place, those who had honourable positions for them, and they milked the pride of kings, and they have been ushered to the interior of purgatory in a way the ground has prevailed upon them being in it, so it ate from their flesh and drank their blood.
فَأَصْبَحُوا فِي فَجَوَاتِ قُبُورِهِمْ جَمَاداً لَا يَنْمُونَ وَ ضِمَاراً لَا يُوجَدُونَ لَا يُفْزِعُهُمْ وُرُودُ الْأَهْوَالِ وَ لَا يَحْزُنُهُمْ تَنَكُّرُ الْأَحْوَالِ وَ لَا يَحْفِلُونَ بِالرَّوَاجِفِ وَ لَا يَأْذَنُونَ لِلْقَوَاصِفِ They have come to be in hollowness of their graves as inanimate objects not growing (anymore), and hidden, nor to be found (anymore).
They are neither panicking at the arrival of horrors nor are they grieving at the adverse situations, nor do they care with the earthquakes, nor are they listening to the thunders.
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