Hadith 113

(The book) ‘Tanbeeh Al Khatir’ –
‘Amir Al-Momineen-asws said: ‘And be cautious of the world, for it is a house of fort and isn’t a house of pasture. A house insignificant to its Lord-azwj. He-azwj Mixed its good with its evil, and its sweet with its bitter. He-azwj is not Satisfied it being for His-azwj friends and does not Hold it back from His-azwj enemies. Sometimes a deed its timing is correct with it, so it becomes a Sunnah (conduct to be followed), and its timing is erred with it, so it becomes reviled. Umar entered to see Rasool-Allah-saww while he-saww was upon a straw mat which had left traces in his-saww side. He said, ‘O Prophet-saww of Allah-azwj! If only you-saww would take a bed it would be softer than it! ’
He-saww said: ‘What is to me-saww and the world? My-saww example and example of the world isn’t except like a rider travelling during a hot day, so he takes shade beneath a tree for a time of a day, then departs and leaves it’’. [155]
Amir Al-Momineen Ali-asws said: ‘And know, may Allah-azwj have Mercy on you all! You are in such a time period, during it the speaker with the truth are few, and the tongue is blinded from the truth, and the sticker to the truth, its people are humiliated. The ones pausing at the disobedience are reconciled upon the flattery. Their youths are wicked and their elderly sinners, and their scholars are hypocrites, ad their readers (of the Quran) are show-offs. Neither are their young ones respecting their elders nor are their rich ones supporting their poor’’. [156]
One of them, ‘Beware of the worries of tomorrow. Be satisfied for tomorrow with the Lord‑azwj of tomorrow’’. [157]
Abu Zarr-ra, may Allah-azwj have Mercy on him-ra: ‘Your day is your camel. When you take it by its head, its tail will come to you, meaning when you were to be in goodness at the beginning of the day, you will not cease to be in it up to its end’’. [158]
Luqman-as said to his-as son: ‘O my-as son! Do not enter into the world an entering harming your Hereafter, nor neglect it with a neglect you will become a burden upon the people’’. [159]
Ali-asws: ‘Whenever he-asws sat evenly upon the pulpit he-asws would say before his-asws sermon: ‘O you people! Fear Allah-azwj, for no person has been Created in vain, so he plays and does not leave the vanity, so he wanders aimlessly. And what is his world which has improved for him as a replacement from the Hereafter which he uglifies it as being of evil consideration in his view? And what is the deceived who is successful from the world at his top concern, like the other one who is successful from the Hereafter with his lesser share (from the world)? ’’[160]