Lesson twenty nine :Counsel

Imam Ali( A. S. )said:

إِتَّعِظُوا بِمَنْ كانَ قَبْلَكُمْ قَبْلَ أَنْ يَتَّعِظَ بِكُمْ مِنْ بَعْدَكُمْ‌

Translation

Take counsel from your predecessors before the posterity take counsel from your life and destiny..

Brief description

The history is full of lessons for taking counsel, full of examples and advices and the end of injustices, oppression, difference and discrepancies, stagnations and petrifaction, unawareness from the situation of environment and time, and are all reflected in the mirror of history. But Imam Ali A. S., the super man of humanity history, warns us to take counsel from the situation of life and destiny of predecessors and do not let your ugly and misfortune destiny to become an example for the posterity. This roaring sea of time takes away all people with itself. The nations are fortunate who look to their past and draw their prosperity and fortune on the future waves.