Hadith 26

umber, and of larger armies, and more intensely powerful than you? They served the world with every service, and they preferred it with every preference, then they were belittled by it with a belittling. The world was generous to them with a ransom, or needless from them regarding what matters had destroyed them, but it weakened them with the distress, and enfeebled them with the calamities, and it knocked their nostrils to the dust, and changes of the times will overcome them. You have seen it disguising for the one who goes near it and resorts to it, until they moved away from it for separating, it extends to the end of the trust. Did it allow them except the constricted life, or provided them except with fatigue, or irradiate for them except the darkness, or gave them the end result except the Fire? So, this is what you are preferring, or are being greedy upon this (and) are reassured to this? Allah-azwj the Majestic is Saying from a speaker: One who wanted the life of the world and its adornments, We shall Fulfil their deeds therein and they would not be devalued [11: 15] They are those, there wouldn’t be for them in the Hereafter except the Fire, and it would be Confiscated whatever they had been doing in it, and it would be invalidated whatever they had been working [11: 16]. It is the evil house for the one who does not accuse it, and if he does not happen to be upon carefulness from it. Know, and you are not knowing! You will be leaving it inevitably, for it is like what Allah-azwj the Exalted has Attributed it as: amusement and play, [7: 51], and take a preaching with the ones who were building a landmark at every elevation in vain, and they were taking manufacturing perhaps they would be living forever. And take preaching with the ones who said: ‘Who is stronger than us in prowess? ’ [41: 15]; and take preaching with your brothers, the ones who have been transferred to their graves. They are neither being called as riders, and shelters have been made for them from the tombs, and shrouds from the soil, and neighbours from remains (of bodies). They are neighbours not responding to any caller, nor are they defending any injustice. Their grudges have perished, so they are like the one who does not exist, and like what Allah-azwj Mighty and Majestic Said: So, these are their dwellings. There have not been lived in from after them except a little (while); and We were the Inheritors [28: 58]. They have been replaced with surface of the earth for its interior, and narrowness with the vastness, and estrangement with the people. They came to it just as they had separated it with the deeds to eternity, the forever, just as the Mighty Said from a speaker: Just as We Began the first creation, We will Repeat it, being a Promise upon Us. We will certainly be Doing it! [21: 104]’’. [25]