Part P54
Twenty First Word First Station First Warning İmagined Permanence And Lifes Shortness
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FIRST WARNING
O my wretched nafs! Is your life eternal, I wonder? Have you any incontrovertible document to show that you will live to next year, or even to tomorrow? What causes you boredom is that you fancy you shall live for ever. You complain as though you will remain in this world to enjoy yourself for ever. If you had understood that your life is brief and that it is departing fruitlessly, to spend one hour out of the twenty-four on a fine, agreeable, easy, and merciful act of service which is a means of gaining the true happiness of eternal life, surely would not cause you boredom but excite a real eagerness and agreeable pleasure.