Hadith 30

(The book) ‘Nahj (Al-Balagah)’ – (Ali-asws said): ‘It is my-asws guarantee with what I-asws am saying, a pledge, and I-asws am responsible of it. One to whom the lessons have declared to him about what is in front of him, from the examples, would be prevented by the piety from storming into the suspicions. Indeed! And the afflictions have returned like they used to be on the day Allah-azwj Sent His-azwj Prophet-saww. For it, the whips of the pot will turn until your bottom ones return to be your top ones, and your top ones to be your bottom ones, and the preceding ones will precede having been deficient before, and the preceding ones who had preceded would be deficient. By Allah-azwj! I am neither concealing a fact nor am I-asws lying a lie, and I-asws had been given the news of this place and this day; and surely the sins are unruly horses carrying its people upon it, and their reins are loose and they plummet with them into the Fire. Indeed! And surely the piety is a well-trained horse carrying its people upon it and they are given its reins, and they arrive with them to the Paradise. Truth and falsehood, and for each there are people. So, if the matter is false, then is has been done such since ancient times, and even if the truth was little, sometimes, and perhaps, and scarcely does a thing which has turned around, would return’’. [30]