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Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books Nahjul Balagha Part 1, The Sermons Sermon 166: The young among you…. Advice for observing courtesy and kindness and keeping in and out of the same ومن خطبة له (عليه السلام) الحثّ على التآلف The young among you should follow the elders while the elders should be kind to the young. Do not be like those rude people of the pre-lslamic ( al-jahiliyyah ) period who did not exert themselves in religion nor use their intellects in the matter of Allah.

A part of the same sermon about the autocracy and oppression of the Umayyads and their fate منها: في بني أمية They will divide after their unity and scatter away from their centre. Some of them will stick to the branches, and bending down as the branches bend, until Allah, the Sublime, will collect them together for the day that will be worst for the Umayyads just as the scattered bits of clouds collect together in the autumn. Allah will create affection among them.

Then He will make them into a strong mass like the mass of clouds. Then he will open doors for them to flow out from their starting place like the flood of the two gardens (of Saba') from which neither high rocks remained safe nor small hillocks, and its flow could be repulsed neither by strong mountains nor by high lands.

Allah will scatter them in the low lands of valleys and then He will make them flow like streams throughout the earth, and through them He will arrange the taking of rights of one people by another people and make one people to stay in the houses of another people. By Allah, all their position and esteem will dissolve as fat dissolves on the fire.