Lettre de l'Imam Ali, que la paix soit sur lui, à Ibn Abbas, que Dieu l'agrée

327. A number of our companions, from Sahl Bin Ziyad, from Ali Bin Asbaat with an unbroken chain, said: Amir-ul-Momineen (asws) wrote to Ibn Abbas: ‘Having said that, what has made the person happy is what he did not miss, and grieved for what he never could have got, ever. The efforts that you have made should make you happy with what you have sent forward from the righteous deeds, or Judgement, or speech, and it is to your regret regarding what you have neglected from that. And leave what you have missed from the world and do not grieve a lot for it. And what you have got from it, do not enjoy in its delight, but ponder over what comes after the death. With greetings’.