مَثَلُ الدُّنيا The Parable of the World

72ـ الإمامُ عليٌّ (عَلَيهِ الّسَلامُ): مَثَلُ الدنيا كَظِلِّكَ ؛ إن وَقَفتَ وَقَفَ ، وإن طَلَبتَهُ بَعُدَ.

72– Imam Ali (AS) said, ‘The parable of this world is like your shadow - if you stop, it stands still, and if you chase it, it distances itself from you.’[Ghurar al-Hikam, no. 9818]

 

73ـ الإمامُ الكاظمُ (عَلَيهِ الّسَلامُ): مَثَلُ الدنيا مَثَلُ الحَيّةِ ؛ مَسُّها لَيِّنٌ وفي جَوفِها السُّمُّ القاتِلُ ، يَحذَرُها الرِّجالُ ذَوُو العُقولِ ، ويَهوِي إلَيها الصِّبيانُ بأيديهِم .

73– Imam al-Kazim (AS) said, ‘The parable of this world is like that of a snake, it is soft to touch but it contains a deadly poison. Men of intellect are cautious whereas children extend their arms towards it.’[Bihar al-Anwar, v. 78, p. 311, no. 1]
 

74ـ الإمامُ الكاظمُ (عَلَيهِ الّسَلامُ): مَثَلُ الدنيا مَثَلُ ماءِ البحرِ؛ كُلَّما شَرِبَ مِنهُ العَطشانُ ازدادَ عَطَشاً حتّى يَقتُلَهُ .

74– Imam al-Kazim (AS) said, ‘The parable of this world is that of sea water, however much the thirsty man drinks from it, his thirst intensifies until it kills him.’[Tuhaf al-`Uqoul, no. 396]
 

75ـ الإمامُ الكاظمُ (عَلَيهِ الّسَلامُ): تَمَثَّلَتِ الدنيا للمسيحِ (عَلَيهِ الّسَلامُ) في صُورةِ امرأةٍ زَرْقاءَ ، فقالَ لَها: كَم تَزَوَّجتِ؟ فقالَت: كثيراً ، قالَ: فَكُلٌّ طَلَّقَكِ؟ قالَت: لا ، بَل كُلاًّ قَتَلتُ ، قالَ المسيحُ (عَلَيهِ الّسَلامُ): فَوَيحٌ لأزواجِكِ الباقينَ ، كيفَ لا يَعتَبِروُنَ بالماضينَ ؟!

75– Imam al-Kazim (AS) said, ‘The world was embodied to Jesus (AS) in the form of a blue-eyed woman, and he said to her, ‘How many have you married?’ she said, ‘Lots’, so he asked, ‘So all of them divorced you?’, she replied, ‘No, rather I killed all of them’, then Jesus (AS) said, ‘Woe upon your current spouses, for how do they not take a lesson from your previous ones?!’[Bihar al-Anwar, v. 78, p. 311, no. 1]