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SERMON
21

Advice to keep light
in this world

Your aim (reward or
punishment) is before you. Behind your back is the hour (of
resurrection) which is driving you on. Keep (yourself) light and
overtake (the forward ones). Your last ones are being awaited by
the first ones (who have preceded).

as-Sayyid ar-Radi
says: If this utterance of Ali (p.b.u.h.) is weighed with any
other utterance except the word of Allah or of the Holy Prophet,
it would prove heavier and superior in every respect. For example,
Ali's saying "Keep light and overtake" is the shortest
expression ever heard with the greatest sense conveyed by it. How
wide is its meaning and how clear its spring of wisdom! We have
pointed out the greatness and meaningfulness of this phrase in our
book al-Khasa'is.