Once Amir al-mu'minin, Imam Ali(as), peace be upon him, was proceeding towards Syria when the countrymen of al-Anbar met him.
Seeing him they began to walk on foot and then ran in front of him.
He enquired why they were doing so
and they replied that
this was the way they respected their chiefs.
Then he said:
By Allah, this does not benefit your chiefs.
You are belabouring yourself in this world
and earning misery for the next world by it.
How harmful is the labour in whose wake there is punishment
and how profitable is the case with which there is deliverance from the Fire (of Hell).
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