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11ـ رسولُ اللهِِ (صَلَّيَ اللهُ عَلَيهِ وَ آلِهِ): إذَا كانَ يَومُ القِيامَةِ نودِيَ: أينَ أبناءُ السِّتّينَ ؟ وهُوَالعُمرُ الّذي قالَ اللّهُ تَعالى: «أوَ لَمْ نُعَمِّرْكُم ما يَتَذَكَّرُ فيهِ مَن تَذَكَّرَ». |
| 11– The Prophet (SAWA) said, ‘On the Day of Resurrection, it will be announced, ‘Where are the sixty year olds’ for this is the age referring to which Allah, most High, has said, “Did we not give you a life long enough that one who is heedful might take admonition”[ Kanz al-`Ummal, no. 2924] |
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12ـ الإمامُ عليٌّ (عَلَيهِ الّسَلامُ): العُمرُ الّذي أعذَرَ اللّهُ فيهِ إلَى ابنِ آدَمَ سِتّونَ سَنَةً . |
| 12– Imam Ali (AS) said, ‘The age up to which Allah accepts the excuse of His servants for certain things is sixty years.’[Nahj al-Balagha, Saying 326] |
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13ـ الإمامُ عليٌّ (عَلَيهِ الّسَلامُ): فيالَها حَسرَةً عَلى كُلِّ ذي غَفلَةٍ أن يَكونَ عُمُرُهُ عَلَيهِ حُجَّةً ، وأن تُؤَدِّيَهُ أيّامُهُ إلَى الشِّقوَةِ ! |
| 13– Imam Ali (AS) said, ‘So alas for every negligent one that his age be a proof against him, and that the days of his life should lead him to perdition!’[Ghurar al-Hikam, Sermon 64] |
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14ـ الإمامُ الباقرُ (عَلَيهِ الّسَلامُ): إذا أتَت عَلَى العَبدِ أربَعونَ سَنَةً قيلَ لَهُ: خُذْ حِذرَكَ ؛ فإنَّكَ غَيرُ مَعذورٍ ، ولَيسَ ابنُ أربَعينَ سَنَةً أحَقَّ بِالعُذرِ مِنِ ابنِ عِشرينَ سَنَةً. |
| 14– Imam al-Baqir (AS) said, ‘When a man reaches forty years of age, it is said to him, ‘Be on your guard, for now you have no excuse’ , and the forty-year old man is no longer as worthy of being excused as the twenty-year old man.’[al-Khisal, p. 545, no. 24] |
