٨٢. وَقَالَ (عليه ‏السلام): أُوصِيكُمْ بِخَمْسٍ لَوْ ضَرَبْتُمْ إِلَيْهَا آبَاطَ الْإِبِلِ لَكَانَتْ لِذَلِكَ أَهْلًا. لَا يَرْجُوَنَّ أَحَدٌ مِنْكُمْ إِلَّا رَبَّهُ وَلَا يَخَافَنَّ إِلَّا ذَنْبَهُ وَلَا يَسْتَحِيَنَّ أَحَدٌ مِنْكُمْ إِذَا سُئِلَ عَمَّا لَا يَعْلَمُ أَنْ يَقُولَ لَا أَعْلَمُ وَلَا يَسْتَحِيَنَّ أَحَدٌ إِذَا لَمْ يَعْلَمِ الشَّيْ‏ءَ أَنْ يَتَعَلَّمَهُ. وَعَلَيْكُمْ بِالصَّبْرِ فَإِنَّ الصَّبْرَ مِنَ الْإِيمَانِ كَالرَّأْسِ مِنَ الْجَسَدِ وَلَا خَيْرَ فِي جَسَدٍ لَا رَأْسَ مَعَهُ وَلَا فِي إِيمَانٍ لَا صَبْرَ مَعَهُ.

82. Amīr al-mu’minīn, peace be upon him, said: I impart to you five things which, if you ride your camels fast in search of them, you will find them worth it. No one of you should repose hope save in his Lord (Allāh); no one of you should fear anything save his sin; no one should feel ashamed of saying “I do not know” when he is asked a matter which he does not know; no one should feel ashamed of learning a thing that he does not know; and you should practise endurance, because endurance is for belief what the head is for the body, so that just as there is no good in a body without the head there is no good in belief without endurance.

82. Je vous recommande cinq conseils dignes d’être suivis là où vous allez; Que chacun de vous n’espère qu’en Dieu, ne redoute que ses propres fautes, n’ait point honte d’avouer son ignorance s’il est interrogé sur une chose qu’il ignore et d’apprendre ce qu’il ne sait pas. Soyez patients, car la patience est pour la foi ce qu’est la tête pour le corps. Or, un corps sans tête ne sert à rien, et une foi sans patience est inutile.

Nahj al-Balāgha

Chapter #82