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Akalim of Amirul Mumineen Maulana Ali (AS)

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Akalim of Amirul Mumineen Maulana Ali (AS)

Vain Desire

1. Overcome your vain desires and flee from them, for indeed if they capture you they will take you into the farthest depths of destruction.

1. Overcome your vain desires and flee from them, for indeed if they capture you they will take you into the farthest depths of destruction.

1 اِغْلِبُوا أهْوائَكُمْ، وهارِبُوها، فَإنَّها إنْ تُقَيِّدْكُمْ تُورِدْكُمْ مِنَ الهَلَكَةِ أبْعَدَ غايَة.

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2. Beware of allowing vain desire to gain control over you for indeed its beginning is temptation and its end is tribulation.

2. Beware of allowing vain desire to gain control over you for indeed its beginning is temptation and its end is tribulation.

2 إيّاكُمْ وتَمَكُّنَ الهَوى مِنْكُمْ، فَإنَّ أوَّلَهُ فِتْنَةٌ، وآخِرَهُ مِحْنَةٌ.

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3. Indeed, the thing I fear most for you is [the result of your] following vain desires and having lengthy aspirations.

3. Indeed, the thing I fear most for you is [the result of your] following vain desires and having lengthy aspirations.

3 اَلا وإنَّ أخْوَفَ ما أخافُ عَلَيْكُمْ اِتِّباعُ الهَوى، وطُولُ الأمَلِ.

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9. Verily if you follow your vain desire, it will make you deaf and blind, ruin your place of [final] return and destroy you.

9. Verily if you follow your vain desire, it will make you deaf and blind, ruin your place of [final] return and destroy you.

9 إنَّكَ إنْ أطَعْتَ هَواكَ أصَمَّكَ وأعْماكَ وأفْسَدَ مُنْقَلَبَكَ وَأرْداكَ.

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10. Verily if you allow vain desire rule over you, it will deafen you, blind you and destroy you.

10. Verily if you allow vain desire rule over you, it will deafen you, blind you and destroy you.

10 إنَّكُمْ إنْ أمَّرْتُمْ عَلَيْكُمُ الهَوى أصَمَّكُمْ، وأعْماكُمْ، وَأرْداكُمْ.

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