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1368 - مَن يَكونُ عُمُرُهُ حُجَّةً عَلَيهِ‏

1368. HE WHOSE LIFE WILL BE A PROOF AGAINST HIM

(وَهُمْ يَصْطَرِخُونَ فِيها رَبَّنا أخْرِجْنا نَعْمَلْ صالِحاً غَيْرَ الَّذِي كُنَّا نَعْمَلُ أوَلَمْ نُعَمِّرْكُمْ ما يَتَذَكَّرُ فِيهِ مَنْ تَذَكَّرَ وَجاءَكُمُ النَّذِيرُ فَذُوقُوا فَما لِلظَّالِمِينَ مِنْ نَصِيرٍ) .1

“They shall cry therein for help: ‘Our Lord! Bring us out, so that we may act righteously – different from what we used to do!’ ‘Did we not give you a life long enough that one who is heedful might take admonition? And [moreover] the warner had [also] come to you. Now taste [the consequence of your deeds], for the wrongdoers have no helper.’”2

4594.رسولُ اللَّهِ صلى اللَّه عليه وآله: إذَا كانَ يَومُ القِيامَةِ نودِيَ: أينَ أبناءُ السِّتّينَ ؟ وهُوَالعُمرُ الّذي قالَ اللَّهُ تَعالى‏ : (أوَلَمْ نُعَمِّرْكُم ما يَتَذَكَّرُ فيهِ مَن تَذَكَّرَ) .3

4594.The Prophet (SAWA) said, ‘On the Day of Resurrection, it will be announced, ‘Where are the sixty year olds?’ for this is the age referring to which Allah, most High, has said, “Did we not give you a life long enough that one who is heedful might take admonition?”4

4595.الإمامُ عليٌّ عليه السلام : العُمرُ الّذي أعذَرَ اللَّهُ فيهِ إلَى ابنِ آدَمَ سِتّونَ سَنَةً .5

4595.Imam Ali (AS) said, ‘The age up to which Allah accepts the excuse of His servants for certain things is sixty years.’6

4596.الإمامُ عليٌّ عليه السلام : فيالَها حَسرَةً عَلى‏ كُلِّ ذي غَفلَةٍ أن يَكونَ عُمُرُهُ عَلَيهِ حُجَّةً ، وأن تُؤَدِّيَهُ أيّامُهُ إلَى الشِّقوَةِ !7

4596.Imam Ali (AS) said, ‘So alas for every negligent one that his age be a proof against him, and that the days of his life should lead him to perdition!’8

4597.الإمامُ الباقرُ عليه السلام : إذا أتَت عَلَى العَبدِ أربَعونَ سَنَةً قيلَ لَهُ : خُذْ حِذرَكَ ؛ فإنَّكَ غَيرُ مَعذورٍ ، ولَيسَ ابنُ أربَعينَ سَنَةً أحَقَّ بِالعُذرِ مِنِ ابنِ عِشرينَ سَنَةً .9

4597.Imam al-Baqir (AS) said, ‘When a man reaches forty years of age, it is said to him, ‘Be on your guard, for now you have no excuse’, and the forty-year old man is no longer as worthy of being excused as the twenty-year old man.’10

1.فاطر : ۳۷ .

2.Qur’an ۳۵:۳۷

3.كنز العمّال : ۲۹۲۴ .

4.Kanz al-Ummal, no. ۲۹۲۴

5.نهج البلاغة : الحكمة ۳۲۶ .

6.Nahj al-Balagha, Saying ۳۲۶

7.نهج البلاغة : الخطبة ۶۴ .

8.Ibid. Sermon ۶۴

9.الخصال : ۵۴۵ / ۲۴ .

10.al-Khisal, p. ۵۴۵, no. ۲۴

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