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SERMON 17


About those who sit for dispensation
of justice among people but are not fit for it.

Among(1) all the people
the most detested before Allah are two persons. One is he who is devoted to his self. So
he is deviated from the true path and loves speaking about (foul) innovations and inviting
towards wrong path. He is therefore a nuisance for those who are enamoured of him, is
himself misled from the guidance of those preceding him, misleads those who follow him in
his life or after his death, carries the weight of others' sins and is entangled in his
own misdeeds.

The other man is he who has picked up ignorance. He
moves among the ignorant, is senseless in the thick of mischief and is blind to the
advantages of peace. Those resembling like men have named him scholar but he is not so. He
goes out early morning to collect things whose deficiency is better than plenty, till when
he has quenched his thirst from polluted water and acquired meaningless things.

He sits among the people as a judge responsible for
solving whatever is confusing to the others. If an ambiguous problem is presented before
him he manages shabby argument about it of his own accord and passes judgement on its
basis. In this way he is entangled in the confusion of doubts as in the spider's web, not
knowing whether he was right or wrong. If he is right he fears lest he erred, while if he
is wrong he hopes he is right. He is ignorant, wandering astray in ignorance and riding on
carriages aimlessly moving in darkness. He did not try to find reality of knowledge. He
scatters the traditions as the wind scatters the dry leaves.

By Allah, he is not capable of solving the problems
that come to him nor is fit for the position assigned to him. Whatever he does not know he
does not regard it worth knowing. He does not realise that what is beyond his reach is
within the reach of others. If anything is not clear to him he keeps quiet over it because
he knows his own ignorance. Lost lives are crying against his unjust verdicts, and
properties (that have been wrongly disposed of) are grumbling against him.

I complain to Allah about persons who live ignorant
and die misguided. For them nothing is more worthless than Qur'an if it is recited as it
should be recited, nor anything more valuable than the Qur'an if its verses are removed
from their places, nor anything more vicious than virtue nor more virtuous than vice.(1).
Amir al-mu'minin has held two categories of persons as the most detestable by Allah and
the worst among people. Firstly, those who are misguided even in basic tenets and are busy
in the spreading of evil. Secondly, those who abandon the Qur'an and sunnah and pronounce
injunctions through their imagination. They create a circle of their devotees and
popularise the religious code of law concocted by themselves. The misguidance and
wrongfulness of such persons does not remain confined to their own selves but the seed of
misguidance sown by them bears fruit and growing into the form of a big tree provides
asylum to the misguided and this misguidance goes on multiplying. And since these very
people are the real originators the weight of other's sins is also on their shoulders as
the Qur'an says:
And certainly they shall bear their
own burdens, and (other) burdens with their own burdens... (29:13)
.

Forward to SERMON
18
.

Back to SERMON
16
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