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And Allah has made for you of what he has created shelters, and he has given you in the
mountains places of retreat, and he has given you garments of preserve you from the heat and
coats of mail to preserve you in your fighting. Even thus does he complete his favor upon you that
haply you may submit.
Thinking in God’s creatures leads to believing and removes any delusion or suspect. It is surely the
best of worship. The Prophet said, “A one‐hour thinking is preferable to a seventy‐year worship.”
[1] Refer to Man is not alone.
Reflecting manners of the past nations:
For awakening the minds and maturing their acquisitions, the manners of the past nations,
people, history, and affairs should be considered. A group of these nations took the right path that
saved them from all of the sorts of irregularity and aberrance. They gained the regal life of
amiability, security, and settlement. The other group went astray. They abandoned the path of
right and justice; therefore, they vanished, and lost their existence. This carries lessons and
examples for every conscious and free man, and saves against the elements of ruining and elapse
and clinging to the equanimity and straightness. Imam Ali (a) says:
“Beware of the consequences of the past nations due to their ill deeds and wrongdoing.
Remember their worthy and vile manners, and beware of being their likes. If you look upon the
variance of their two –good and evil‐ manners, then you should cling to matters that dignified
them, scavenged their enemies, elongated their healthiness, submitted their graces, and
connected them to nobility. These matters represent the avoidance of discrepancy and acceding,
urging, and recommending of amiability. They shunned every matter that breaks their backs and
weakens their intentions, like the heart malice, the mind malevolence, the spiritual rancor, and
the power frustration.
Look upon the affairs of the past believers and study their behaviors in the manners of testing and
examination. Were they not the most antagonized, the most examined, and the most distressed?
The tyrants enslaved, showed the worst of torment, and coerced them to swallow the bitterest.
They were kept up in this state of humiliation, expiration, and persecution of mortification. They
could not be availed with a plan of refutation or a way of defense. As God noticed their serious
toleration that they offered for His favor, and their harsh endurance that they chose for His
fearing, He relieved them after the hard examination. He substituted dignity for the humiliation
and security for the vacillation. They became kings and rulers. God has made to them what they
did not expect.”[1]
The Imam (a) keeps on exposing the vigorous pictures of the past nations that coincided with the
paths of right and justice and achieved the most significant states of dignity, nobility, honor, and
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