16ـ مُناصِحُكَ مُشْفِقٌ عَلَيْكَ مُحْسِنٌ إلَيْكَ ناظِرٌ في...
16ـ مُناصِحُكَ مُشْفِقٌ عَلَيْكَ مُحْسِنٌ إلَيْكَ ناظِرٌ في عَواقِبِكَ مُسْتَدْرِكٌ فَوارِطَكَ فَفِي طاعَتِهِ رَشادُكَ وفي مُخالَفَتِهِ فَسادُكَ. Your advice [when given] in front of other people is [considered] a rebuke. 17ـ نُصْحُكَ بَيْنَ الْمَلاءِ تَقْرِيعٌ. Never reject the [advice of a] sincere adviser and never assume the one who counsels you to be a deceiver. 18ـ لاتَرُدَّنَّ عَلَى النَّصِيحِ ولاتَسْتَغِشَّنَّ المُشِيرَ.
Do not take advice from one who has lost his senses and do not trust one who has an ignoble background, for indeed the one who has lost his senses deceives while he thinks he is offering good advice, and one who has an ignoble background corrupts while he thinks he is rectifying. 19ـ لاتَنْتَصِحْ بِمَنْ فاتَهُ الْعَقْلُ ولاتَثِقْ بِمَنْ خانَهُ الأصْلُ فَإنَّ مَنْ فاتَهُ الْعَقْلُ يَغُشُّ مِنْ حَيْثُ يَنْصَحُ ومَنْ خانَهُ الأصْلُ يُفْسِدُ مِنْ حَيْثُ يُصْلِحُ.
There is no sincerity like [giving] sincere advice. 20ـ لاإخْلاصَ كَالنُّصـْحِ. There is no admonisher more effective than sincere advice. 21ـ لاواعِظَ أبْلَغُ مِنَ النُّصْحِ. There is no good in a community that does not sincerely advise [each other] and does not love sincere advisers. 22ـ لاخَيْـرَ في قَوْم لَيْسُوا بِناصِحينَ ولا يُحِبُّونَ النّاصِحينَ.
The wicked one does not sincerely advise anyone except out of desire or fear, so when the desire or fear disappears, he returns to his true nature. 23ـ لا يَنْصَحُ اللَّئِيمُ أحَداً إلاّ عَنْ رَغْبَة أوْ رَهْبَة فَإذا زالَتِ الرَّغْبَةُ والرَّهْبَةُ عادَ إلى جَوْهَرِهِ.
People, accept advice from the one who advises you and receive it from the one who carries it to you with obedience, and know that Allah, the Glorified, has not praised but the most attentive of hearts to wise counsel and only those people who are quickest in responding to the truth; and know that the greater struggle is the struggle against one’s self, so occupy yourself with struggling against your selves and you will be felicitous, reject idle talk and you will be safe, increase in your remembrance of Allah and you will gain, [and] be brothers to each other, O servants of Allah, and you will be prosperous with the everlasting bounty [of Allah].
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