hadith
3869
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Imam Ali (AS) said, O Aba Dharr! Indeed you got angry for the sake of Allah so have hope in the One whom you got angry for. Indeed the people feared you in the matter of their world while you feared them for your faith. Then leave to them that for which they are afraid of you and get away from them with that which you feared them for. How needy they are for that which you dissuade them from and how needless you are of that which they deny you. Even if the skies and the earth were closed to an individual and [then] he feared Allah, Allah would most certainly open a way for him in them. So let nothing give you comfort but the truth and let nothing distress you except falsehood. If you would have accepted their world [and its attractions] they would have loved you, and if you had shared in it they would have given you asylum.
الإمامُ عليٌّ (عَلَيهِ الّسَلامُ) : يا أباذَرّ إنَّكَ (إنْ) غُضِبْتَ لِلّهِ فَارْجُ مَنْ غُضِبْتَ لَهُ إنَّ القَوْمَ خافُوكَ على دُنْياهُمْ وَ خِفْتَهُم على دينِكَ فَاتْرُكْ في أيْديهِمْ ما خافُوكَ عَلَيْهِ وَ اهْرُبْ مِنْهُمْ بِما خِفْتَهُمْ عَلَيْهِ فَما أحْوَجَهُمْ إلى ما مَنَعْتَهُمْ وَ ما أغْناكَ عَمَّا مَنَعُوكَ وَلَوْ أنَّ السَّمواتِ وَ الأرضَ كانَتا على عَبْد رَتْقاً ثُمَّ اتَّقَى اللّهَ لَجَعلَ لَهُ مِنْهُما مَخْرَجاً فلا يُؤْنِسَنَّكَ إلاَّ الحَقُّ وَ لا يُوحِشَنَّكَ إلاَّ الباطِلُ فَلَو قَبِلْتَ دُنياهُمْ لأَحَبُّوكَ وَ لَوْ قَرَضْتَ مِنْها لأَمِنُوكَ
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