A Look at Sermon #50 of Nahjul Balagha
By Azra

Imam Ali (a.s.)’s sermons are full of wisdom.  When I read this sermon and looked at the description of the mixing of the right and wrong, I find it so true in today’s world don’t you think?  It appears that wrong and rights are mixed which makes it very difficult to find the truth!
Imam Ali (a.s.)’s wisdom is definitely unparalleled

The bases of the occurrence of evils are those desires which are acted upon and the orders that are innovated. They are against the Book of Allah.

People co-operate with each other about them even though it is against the Religion of Allah.

If wrong had been pure and unmixed it would not be hidden from those who are in search of it.

And if right had been pure without admixture of wrong those who bear hatred towards it would have been silenced.

What is, however, done is that something is taken from here and something from there and the two are mixed!

At this stage Satan overpowers his friends and they alone escape for whom virtue has been apportioned by Allah from before