Hypocrisy and spiritual negligence in religious practice

Nahj al-Balāgha|Volume 1|Book 3|Chapter 150
Nahj al-Balāgha

Book 3, Chapter 150

Hypocrisy and spiritual negligence in religious practice

قال السيد الرضى: و لو لم يكن فى هذا الكتاب إلا هذا الكلام لكفى به موعظة ناجعة و حكمة بالغة و بصيرة لمبصر و عبرة لناظر مفكر.
As-Sayyid ar-Raḍī says: If this book had contained nothing save this short utterance it would have sufficed as a successful piece of preaching, a specimen of high philosophy, an object of wisdom for the onlooker and a source of instruction for the meditative watcher.