SERMON 141
Against reliance on heresy
O' people! If a person knows
his brother to be steadfast in faith and of correct ways he should not
lend ear to what people may say about him.
Sometimes the bowman shoots
arrows but the arrow goes astray; similarly talk can be off the point. Its
wrong perishes, while Allah is the Hearer and the Witness. There is
nothing between truth and falsehood except four fingers.
Amir al-mu'minin was asked
the meaning of this whereupon he closed his fingers together and put them
between his ear and eye and said: It is falsehood when you say, "I have
heard so," while it is truth when you say, "have seen."
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