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Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books Masterpieces of Rhetoric Methood (nahj Al-balagha) People of Greed and People of Poverty You are in a time in which good doesn’t increase but turning away and eveil doesn’t increase but advent, and satan in destroying people but covert-ness. Cast your glance over people wherever you like, Do you see but a poor man suffering from poverty, or a rich man who has changed Allah’s bounty into infidelity where are your good people?

Where are your virtuous people? Where are your high-spirited men and generous men? Where are those of you who avoid deceit in their business and remain pure in their behaviour? Have they not all departed from this ignoble world? Have you not been left among people who are just like rubbish and so mean that the two lips cannot meet even to condemn them scornfully.

Allah may curse those who advise good but they themselves avoid it, and those who desist others from evil but they themselves act upon it! The ignorant Judge About those who sit for judgement among people, but are not fit for it Till when he has quenched his thirst from a polluted water and treasurd up of cheap metals, he sits among people as a judge respons for explaining what ever is confusing to the others.

If an ambiguous problem intercepted him he manages a shabby mean-ingless argument about it of his own accord and passes judge-ments on its basis. In this way he is entangled in the confusion of doubts as in the spider’s web, not knowing whether he was right or wrong. If he is right he fears lest he erred, and if he is wrong he hopes he is right. He is ignorant, wandering astray in ignorance. He scatters the traditions as the wind scatters the dry leaves.

Whatever he does not know he does not assume to be a knowledge it worth knowing. He does not think that there is beyond his reach a view. If anything is not clear to him he concealed it because of what he knows of his own ignorance. Lost lives are crying for help against his unjust verdicts, inheri-tances are grumbling against him. I complain to Allah about a community who live ignorant and die misguided.

For them nothing is more worthless than Qura’n if it is recited as it should be recited, nor anything more valuable than the Qur’an if its verses are misinterpreted, nor anything more vicious than virtue nor more virtuous than vice. He Judges According to His view When a problem is put before one of them he passes a judgement on it from his view.