وَ عَاثَ فِي كُلِّ جَارِحَةٍ مِنْهُمْ جَدِيدُ بِلًى...
وَ عَاثَ فِي كُلِّ جَارِحَةٍ مِنْهُمْ جَدِيدُ بِلًى سَمَّجَهَا وَ سَهَّلَ طُرُقَ الْآفَةِ إِلَيْهَا مُسْتَسْلِمَاتٍ فَلَا أَيْدٍ تَدْفَعُ وَ لَا قُلُوبٌ تَجْزَعُ لَرَأَيْتَ أَشْجَانَ قُلُوبٍ وَ أَقْذَاءَ عُيُونٍ And the spoiling in every limb from them is a renewed decay of its ugliness, and the paths of calamities have been pave to it. They have surrendered, so there is neither any hand to defend nor any heart to grieve. You will see the sorrowness of the hearts and the specks of the eyes.
لَهُمْ فِي كُلِّ فَظَاعَةٍ صِفَةُ حَالٍ لَا تَنْتَقِلُ وَ غَمْرَةٌ لَا تَنْجَلِي فَكَمْ أَكَلَتِ الْأَرْضُ مِنْ عَزِيزِ جَسَدٍ وَ أَنِيقِ لَوْنٍ كَانَ فِي الدُّنْيَا غَذِيَ تَرَفٍ وَ رَبِيبَ شَرَفٍ يَتَعَلَّلُ بِالسُّرُورِ فِي سَاعَةِ حُزْنِهِ وَ يَفْزَعُ إِلَى السَّلْوَةِ إِنْ مُصِيبَةٌ نَزَلَتْ بِهِ ضَنّاً بِغَضَارَةِ عَيْشِهِ وَ شَحَاحَةً بِلَهْوِهِ وَ لَعِبِهِ For them, in every atrocity, there is an attribute of a situation not changing, and an adversity nor clearing away.
How many an honourable body being of dazzling beauty has been consumed by the earth. In the world he had been provided with luxuries and nurtured in nobility. He was pre-occupied with the happiness in a time of grief, and if a calamity befell him he panicked to the pleasures and goodness of his life by his playing and sports.
فَبَيْنَا هُوَ يَضْحَكُ إِلَى الدُّنْيَا وَ تَضْحَكُ إِلَيْهِ فِي ظِلِّ عَيْشٍ غَفُولٍ إِذْ وَطِئَ الدَّهْرُ بِهِ حَسَكَهُ وَ نَقَضَتِ الْأَيَّامُ قُوَاهُ وَ نَظَرَتْ إِلَيْهِ الْحُتُوفُ مِنْ كَثَبٍ فَخَالَطَهُ بَثٌ لَا يَعْرِفُهُ وَ نَجِيُ هَمٍّ مَا كَانَ يَجِدُهُ وَ تَوَلَّدَتْ فِيهِ فَتَرَاتُ عِلَلٍ آنَسَ مَا كَانَ بِصِحَّتِهِ While he was smiling at the world and the world was smiling at him in the shade of a life of heedlessness, when the times trampled him with thorns and the days broke his strength, and the death looked at him from nearby.
So there mingled with him grief he had not known, and whispering of worries he had not felt before, and natural illnesses were produced in him (instead of) what health he had been with.
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