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62. Obedience is the shield of the masses and justice is the shield of the [rulers of] nations.
63. So the hearts are heedless of right guidance, too hard to accept their [good] fortune, traversing on the wrong paths as though the one being addressed is someone else, and as though the fortune lies in amassing worldly gains.
63. So the hearts are heedless of right guidance, too hard to accept their [good] fortune, traversing on the wrong paths as though the one being addressed is someone else, and as though the fortune lies in amassing worldly gains.
63 فَالقُلُوبُ لاهِيَةٌ مِنْ رُشْدِها، قاسِيَةٌ عَنْ حَظِّها، سالِكَةٌ في غَيْرِ مِضْمارِها، كَأنَّ المَعْنِيَّ سِواها،وَكَأنَّ الحَظَّ في إحْرازِ دُنْياها.
64. How effective these admonitions [would be] if only they were received by pure hearts, attentive ears and unwavering minds.
65. From them mischief will spring up and all wrong will turn towards them. They will fling anyone who isolates himself from it (i.e. the mischief) back into it and they will drive anyone who stays back from it towards it.
65. From them mischief will spring up and all wrong will turn towards them. They will fling anyone who isolates himself from it (i.e. the mischief) back into it and they will drive anyone who stays back from it towards it.
65 مِنْهُمْ تَخْرُجُ الفِتْنَةُ، وإلَيْهِمْ تَأْوِى الخَطيئَةُ، يَرُدُّونَ مَنْ شَذَّ عَنْها فيها، ويَسُوقُونَ مَنْ تَأَخَّرعَنْها إلَيْها.
66. If falsehood dominates, it has [always] been so in the past, and if truth diminishes, that too has often occurred and may [again] happen. It is seldom that a thing lags behind and remains behind.
66. If falsehood dominates, it has [always] been so in the past, and if truth diminishes, that too has often occurred and may [again] happen. It is seldom that a thing lags behind and remains behind.
66 فَلَئِنْ أمَرَ الباطِلُ لَقَديماً فَعَلَ، وَلَئِنْ قَلَّ الحَقُّ لَرُبَّما ولَعَلَّ، لَقَلَّما أدْبَرَ شَيْءٌ فَأدْبَرَ.