Hadith 110

From the book ‘Uyoun Al HIkam Wa Al Mawaiz’ of Ali Bin Muhammad Al Wasity, we have written it from an ancient original, ‘From Amir Al-Momineen-asws having said: ‘Be cautious of this world, the deceiving, the treacherous which is adorning with its ornaments and tempting with its deceit, and deceived with its long hopes, and yearning for its proposers. So it has become like a revolving bride while the beholders are eying towards it, and souls are drawn to it, and the hearts are pulled to it, and it is for its husbands, all of them to be killed. The remaining ones are not taking a lesson with the past, nor the latter ones being rebuked for its evil impacts upon the former ones, nor are the ones of understanding in it are benefitting with the experiences. The hearts are refusing to it except (more) love, and the souls except for (more) longing, and the people are seekers of it seeking victory with it, so they get deceived, in it and forget providing from it for the thirst. Little in it is his waiting until he will vacate his hands from it and his feet will slip from it, and there will come to him the most secretive of what he had been wishing for. So, his regret was mighty, and his regret was a lot, and calamities befell him, and the pangs of death gathered upon him. It cannot be described what befell him, and at the end he shuddered from it before he would win with his needs. He separated from it in deception and regret and did not realise what he had sought from it and did not win with what he had hoped in it. They all departed from the world without any provision, and they went ahead upon without a cradle. Therefore, be cautious of the world with all of its caution and place down from you the weight of its worries when you are certain of its demise, and be as captivated as you can be in it, as careful as you can be to it, for every time it’s seeker is reassured from it to happiness, an abhorrence takes him away from it, and every time he was joyful from it with the oncoming bounty, he was stunned with its turning around, and every time a man from it is affirmed upon it, he is folded away from it driven away. The walker in it would sink, and the beneficial in it is harmful, and its prosperity is connected with the afflictions, and its lasting is made to the annihilation, its happiness is mingled with the grief, and last of its worries is to the weakness. Therefore look at it with an eye of the ascetic and do not look at it with an eye of the self-confident. Know, O you, it is a characterisation of the silent farewell and grief of the joyful, the safe. It will not return from it what has turned around, so it can return, and he does not know what is to come. So be careful of its false wishes and its false hopes. It’s clean is filthy, and the son of Adam-as is upon a danger in it, either with a declining bounty, or a befalling affliction, or mighty destruction, or a Decreed death. The life becomes difficult upon him if he uses his intellect, and it informs him about itself if he retains, and if it’s Creator Majestic and Mighty had not Informed the news about it, and had not Stuck examples for it, and had not Commanded with the ascetism in it and the turning away from it, it’s occurrences an