خطبه ۱۹۷: در ذکر فضائل خویش
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۱۹۷- و من كلام له ( عليه السلام ) > ينبه فيه علي فضيلته لقبول قوله و أمره و نهيه < وَ لَقَدْ عَلِمَ الْمُسْتَحْفَظُونَ مِنْ أَصْحَابِ مُحَمَّدٍ ( صلي الله عليه وآله ) أَنِّي لَمْ أَرُدَّ عَلَي اللَّهِ وَ لَا عَلَي رَسُولِهِ سَاعَةً قَطُّ وَ لَقَدْ وَاسَيْتُهُ بِنَفْسِي فِي الْمَوَاطِنِ الَّتِي تَنْكُصُ فِيهَا الْأَبْطَالُ وَ تَتَأَخَّرُ فِيهَا الْأَقْدَامُ نَجْدَةً أَكْرَمَنِي اللَّهُ بِهَا وَ لَقَدْ قُبِضَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ( صلي الله عليه وآله ) وَ إِنَّ رَأْسَهُ لَعَلَي صَدْرِي وَ لَقَدْ سَالَتْ نَفْسُهُ فِي كَفِّي فَأَمْرَرْتُهَا عَلَي وَجْهِي وَ لَقَدْ وُلِّيتُ غُسْلَهُ ( صلي الله عليه وآله ) وَ الْمَلَائِكَةُ أَعْوَانِي فَضَجَّتِ الدَّارُ وَ الْأَفْنِيَةُ مَلَأٌ يَهْبِطُ وَ مَلَأٌ يَعْرُجُ وَ مَا فَارَقَتْ سَمْعِي هَيْنَمَةٌ مِنْهُمْ يُصَلُّونَ عَلَيْهِ حَتَّي وَارَيْنَاهُ فِي ضَرِيحِهِ فَمَنْ ذَا أَحَقُّ بِهِ مِنِّي حَيّاً وَ مَيِّتاً فَانْفُذُوا عَلَي بَصَائِرِكُمْ وَ لْتَصْدُقْ نِيَّاتُكُمْ فِي جِهَادِ عَدُوِّكُمْ فَوَالَّذِي لَا إِلَهَ إِلَّا هُوَ إِنِّي لَعَلَي جَادَّةِ الْحَقِّ وَ إِنَّهُمْ لَعَلَي مَزَلَّةِ الْبَاطِلِ أَقُولُ مَا تَسْمَعُونَ وَ أَسْتَغْفِرُ اللَّهَ لِي وَ لَكُمْ .
ترجمه‌ی فارسی
خطبه ۱۹۷-در ذكر فضائل خويش فضائل اميرالمومنين اصحاب و ياران حضرت محمد (ص) كه حافظان اسرار او مي باشند، مي دانند كه من حتي براي يك لحظه هم مخالف فرمان خدا و رسول اوجنبودم. بلكه با جان خود پيامبر(ص) را ياري كردم، در جاهائي كه شجاعان قدمهايشان مي لرزيد، و فرار مي كردند، آن دليري و مردانگي را خدا به من عطا فرمود. در سوگ پيامبر رسول خدا(ص) در حالي كه سرش بر روي سينه ام بود قبض روح گرديد، و جان او در كف من روان شد، آن را بر چهره خويش كشيدم، متصدي غسل پيامبر (ص) من بودم، و فرشتگان مرا ياري مي كردند، گويا در و ديوار خانه فرياد مي زد. گروهي از فرشتگان فرود مي آمدند و گروهي ديگر به آسمان پرواز مي كردند، گوش من از صداي آهسته آنان كه بر آنحضرت نماز مي خواندند، پر بود، تا آنگاه كه او را در حجره اش دفن كرديم. چه كسي با آنحضرت در زندگي و لحظات مرگ از من سزاوارتر است؟ پس مردم با دل بينا حركت كنيد، و نيت خويش را در جهاد با دشمن راست بداريد، سوگند بخدائي كه جز او خدائي نيست، من بر جاده حق مي روم، و دشمنان من بر پرتگاه باطلند، مي گويم آنچه را مي شنويد، و براي خود و شما از خدا طلب آمرزش دارم.
ترجمه‌ی انگلیسی
I warn you of the world for it is the abode of the unsteady. It is not a house for foraging. It has decorated itself with deception and deceives with its decoration. It is a house which is low before Allah. So He has mixed its lawful with unlawful things, its good with evil, its life with death, and its sweetness with bitterness. Allah has not kept it clear for His lovers, nor has He been niggardly with it towards His foes. Its good is sparing. Its evil is ready at hand. Its collection would dwindle away. Its authority would be snatched away. Its habitation would face desolation. What is the good in a house which falls down like fallen construction or in an age which expires as the provision exhausts, or in time which passes like walking ? Include in your demands whatever Allah has made obligatory on you. Ask from Him fulfilment of what He has asked you to do. Make your ears hear the call of death before you are called by it. Surely the hearts of the abstemious weep in this world even though they may (apparently) laugh, and their grief increases even though they may appear happy. Their hatred for themselves is much even though they may be envied for the subsistence they are allowed. Remembrance of death has disappeared from your hearts while false hopes are present in you. So this world has mastered you more than the next world, and the immediate and (of this world) has removed you away from the remote one (i.e. of the next life). You are brethren in the religion of Allah. Corrupt natures and bad conscience have made you separated. Consequently you do not bear burdens of each other, nor advise each other, nor spend on each other, nor love each other. What is your condition ? You feel satisfied with what little amount you have secured from this world, while much of the next world of which you have been deprived does not grieve you. The little amount of this world which you lose, pains you so much so that it becomes apparent in your faces, and in the lack of your endurance over whatever is taken away from you; as though this world is your permanent abode, and as though its wealth would stay with you for good. Nothing prevents anyone among you to disclose to his comrade the shortcomings he is afraid of, except the fear that the comrade would also disclose to him similar defects. You have decided together on leaving the next world and loving this world. Your religion has become just licking with the tongue. It is like the work of one who has finished his job and secured satisfaction of his master.
منبع: نهج‌البلاغه (گردآوری سید رضی)