Sermon (218): He said while reciting Surah Al-Hakam al-Takathir
Amirul Momineen ﷷ after reciting Ayat al-Hikam al-Takathir Hatt Zartam Al-Maqabare (You have been made oblivious by the abundance of people and tribes until you have seen the graves) said:. See how far-fetched is the purpose of those who boast of these rotten bones, and how heedless and ignorant are those who come to the graves, and how hard and difficult this campaign is.. They considered the dead to be devoid of any instructive things and took them from a distant place (to make capital).. Do they take pride in the dead bodies of their ancestors?. or feel their abundance increased by the number of the dead, they want to turn over the bodies that have become lifeless and restore the movements that have ceased.. They are more capable of being a lesson than a cause of pride. Because of them, it is more appropriate to descend to a place of helplessness and humility than to stand in a place of honor and pride.. They looked at them with scarred eyes and (instead of learning from them) descended into the depths of ignorance.. If they ask about their past in the courtyards of broken houses and empty houses, they will say that they went underground in a state of error, and you are also moving behind them in ignorance, you trample on their skulls, and you want to build buildings on the place of their bodies, grazing in what they have left behind, and the filth they have left empty.. Abide in it, and these days are between you and them, weeping over you and reciting lamentations.. Those who have already reached your destination Mantaha and those who have already arrived at your head springs are the same people for whom there were places of honor and abundance of pride and exaltation.. Therefore, they have lost their growth in the crevices of the grave and lie in a frozen form and have disappeared from sight so that they cannot be found (by search).. Neither the coming of immediate dangers frightens them, nor does the revolution of circumstances make them sad, nor do they care about earthquakes, nor listen to thunder, they are absent that are not expected and there are those that do not appear, those who used to live together, who are now scattered and now have mutual love, who are now separated, the silence of their homes is not because of the extension of time and the second floor, but because of them (death). (Ka) has been given such an ocean that has taken away their speech and made them dumb and has made them deaf by taking away the power of hearing and has replaced their movements with calmness and indifference as if they are seen at a glance as if they are lying in sleep.. They are neighbors who do not have affection for each other and friends who do not mix with each other.. Their bonds of familiarity have decayed and bonds of brotherhood have broken. They are together and then alone, and while they are friends, they are separate. These people are unaware of its dawn if it is night, and are unaware of its evening if it is day. The hour of the night or day in which they have made the journey is always and the same for them. They found the horrors of the Hereafter even more terrifying. As much as they feared and saw the relics there greater than what they had imagined, the destination (of the believers and the disbelievers) has been extended to the farthest place (Hell and Jannah).. He would be above all fear (for the unbelievers) and above all hope (for the believers), if only they could speak whenever their tongues were rendered speechless by the description of the things seen.. Although their traces have been erased and their news has been cut off. But the eyes and vision see them and the ears and intellect hear them.. Soft and delicate bodies have turned to dust and we are wearing rotten shrouds and the narrowness of the grave has humbled us.. Fear and terror have inherited from each other. Our silent floors are deserted, our body's charms are erased. Our familiar faces have changed. Our stay in these horrors was prolonged. There is no escape from anxiety. There is no abundance from scarcity. Now in this world when due to insects their ears have become deaf by losing hearing. And Aran's eyes have sunken inward with the blackness of dust, and the tongues in their mouths have become divided after showing power and fluency, and the hearts in their breasts have become motionless after being alert.. And every one of their organs has been destroyed by new decays and made into badness, and in such a state that they are willing (to endure every affliction) without resistance.. The path of calamities has been paved for them, there is no hand to save them, and no hearts to be restless, if you fix their map in your minds, or if the veil that lies over them is removed from before you, then you will certainly see the sadness of their hearts and the sadness in their eyes, that they are in such a state of severity and hardness that it does not change, and such suffering and death. There is something that cannot be removed, and you will know how many dignified bodies and attractive colors and forms have been eaten by the earth, who used to entertain the heart with joyful faces even in the hours of sorrow.. If any calamity befell them, they were tempted by the refreshments of their luxuries and by being enthralled by games and amusements, they sought the support of happy times, while they were laughing at the world in the shadows of a heedless and bewildering life, and the world was laughing at them, until suddenly time trampled them like a thorn and broke all their strength, and the eyes of death approached them. But they began to fall, and such grief and sorrow came over them that they were not familiar with, and they were afflicted with an inner anxiety that they had never experienced before.. And in the condition that they were very familiar with health. When the weakness of the disease arose in them, they turned to the same things that the doctors had accustomed them to, that is, to remove the heat with cold medicines and to reduce the cold with warm medicines, but the cold medicines instead of extinguishing the heat, inflamed it, and the warm medicines, instead of removing the coldness, increased its excitement, and their temperaments came to the point of moderation with the things mixed with these conditions.. Rather, these things aggravated and aggravated every organ. Even the foragers slowed down. The caretakers (despairing) began to neglect. The family members were unable to explain the condition of the disease and kept silent from the response of the mood probes, and while hiding it from him, they began to differ about this sad news.. A narrator used to say that his condition is obvious, and one used to give hope for the return of health and well-being, and another used to exhort them to be patient on his (impending) death and remind them of the sufferings of those who passed before him.. At the same time that he was preparing to leave the world and leave his friends, one of the snares of the blind caught him, so that his senses became confused and his tongue dried up, and how many vague questions he knew the answers to.. But he was unable to describe it, and no matter how many heart-wrenching voices hit his ears, those voices that he became deaf to hear were either those of an elderly person whom he respected greatly, or of a young child to whom he was kind and compassionate..
