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Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books Masterpieces of Rhetoric Methood (nahj Al-balagha) The Hypocrites They change into many colours, and adopt many ways. In every path there is one of their victims and they have a mean to approach every heart, and they have tears for every grief. They lend each other eulogies and expect reward from each other. When they ask something they insist on it, if they blame they unveil, and if they pass a verdict they commit excess.

They have prepared for every truth a wrong way, for every erect thing a tilted, for every living being a killer, for every door a key, and for every night a lamp. They attempt to reach their greedy aims by despair, in order to maintain with it their markets, and to popularize their ornamated merchandise. It Has Become Eternal For Them Describing those who deserted this world: The approach of danger do not frighten them, and the adversity of circumstances does not grieve them.

They do not mind earthquakes, nor do they pay heed to thunders. They are departed and not waited. They are present but don’t attend. They had been together but are now scattered. Their accounts are unknown and their houses are silent, not because of duration of time or distance of place, but because they have been made to drink a cup (of death) which has changed their speech into dumbness, their hearing into deafness, and their movements into stillness.

They are neighbours not feeling affection for each other, and friends who do not visit each other. The bonds of their knowing each other have been worn out and the connections of their friendship have been cut asunder. Everyone of them is therefore alone although they are together, and they are strangers, even though friends. They are unaware of morning after a night or an evening after a day. The night or the day when they departed has become eternal for them.

Carrying Them Towards Their Dangers Describing the present world: Its dweller is a traveller, and its resident is departing. It is drifting with its people like a ship when severe winds dashes in the deep sea. Some of them sinks and die, while some others escape on the surface of the waves, where winds push them with their currents and carry them towards its horrors. So whoever has sunk cannot be restored, and whoever escapes is on the way to perdition.