وَ إِنَّ أَهْلَ الدُّنْيَا لَا يَشْكُرُونَ عِنْدَ الرَّخَاءِ...
وَ إِنَّ أَهْلَ الدُّنْيَا لَا يَشْكُرُونَ عِنْدَ الرَّخَاءِ وَ لَا يَصْبِرُونَ عِنْدَ الْبَلَاءِ كَثِيرُ النَّاسِ عِنْدَهُمْ قَلِيلٌ يَحْمَدُونَ أَنْفُسَهُمْ بِمَا لَا يَفْعَلُونَ وَ يَدْعُونَ بِمَا لَيْسَ لَهُمْ وَ يَتَكَلَّمُونَ بِمَا يَتَمَنَّوْنَ وَ يَذْكُرُونَ مَسَاوِيَ النَّاسِ وَ يُخْفُونَ حَسَنَاتِهِمْ And people of the world are neither thanking during the prosperity, nor are they being patient during the afflictions. A lot of people in their presence is few.
They are praising themselves with what they haven’t done and they are claiming what isn’t for them, and they are speaking (reproaching) with what they are conferring, and they are mentioning evil deeds of the people, and there are taking their (people’s) good deeds lightly!” قَالَ يَا رَبِّ هَلْ يَكُونُ سِوَى هَذَا الْعَيْبِ فِي أَهْلِ الدُّنْيَا He -saww said: ‘O Lord -azwj !
Does this fault happen to be the same among people of the world?’ قَالَ يَا أَحْمَدُ إِنَّ عَيْبَ أَهْلِ الدُّنْيَا كَثِيرٌ فِيهِمُ الْجَهْلُ وَ الْحُمْقُ- لَا يَتَوَاضَعُونَ لِمَنْ يَتَعَلَّمُونَ مِنْهُ وَ هُمْ عِنْدَ أَنْفُسِهِمْ عُقَلَاءُ وَ عِنْدَ الْعَارِفِينَ حَمْقَاءُ: He -azwj Said: ‘O Ahmad -saww ! Faults of people of the world are a lot. Among them is the ignorant and the stupidity.
They are not being humble to the one they are learning from, and there are intellectuals in their own view while in the presence of the Gnostics, they are idiots.
يَا أَحْمَدُ إِنَّ أَهْلَ الْخَيْرِ وَ أَهْلَ الْآخِرَةِ رَقِيقَةٌ وُجُوهُهُمْ كَثِيرٌ حَيَاؤُهُمْ قَلِيلٌ حُمْقُهُمْ كَثِيرٌ نَفْعُهُمْ قَلِيلٌ مَكْرُهُمْ النَّاسُ مِنْهُمْ فِي رَاحَةٍ وَ أَنْفُسُهُمْ مِنْهُمْ فِي تَعَبٍ كَلَامُهُمْ مَوْزُونٌ مُحَاسِبِينَ لِأَنْفُسِهِمْ مُتْعِبِينَ لَهَا تَنَامُ أَعْيُنُهُمْ وَ لَا تَنَامُ قُلُوبُهُمْ أَعْيُنُهُمْ بَاكِيَةٌ وَ قُلُوبُهُمْ ذَاكِرَةٌ O Ahmad -saww !
The good people and people of the Hereafter, gentle are their faces, a lot is their modesty, little is their stupidity, a lot is their benefit, few are their plans. The people are in comfort from them while they themselves are in fatigue from them. Their talk is weighed (careful). They reckon their own selves, tiring for it. Their eyes sleep and their hearts do not sleep. Their eyes are crying and their hearts are doing Zikr.
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