Hadith 136

The (book) ‘Nahj Al Balagah’ –
‘Amir Al-Momineen-asws said, and he-asws had heard a man condemning the world: ‘O you condemner of the world, the one deceived by its deception, the one cheated by its falsities! Are you deceived by the world, then are condemning it having offended upon it, or did it offend upon you? When did it bewilder you? Or when did it deceive you? Is it by the fall of your forefathers from the decay, or with the graves of your foremothers beneath the soil? How many times they were ill in your hands, and how many times they were sick in your hands. You sought the healing for them, and the physicians had described (medication) for them, but your cures did not benefit any one of them, and you were not helped by your seeking during it, and you could not defend them with your strength. The world has been resembled yourself for you with it, and your fall with his fall. The world is a house of truth for the one who ratifies it, and a house of wellbeing for the one who understands about it, and a house of riches for the one who provides from it, and a house of preaching for the one taking a preaching with it. It is a Masjid for the loved ones of Allah-azwj, and a prayer mat for Angels of Allah-azwj, and a descent place for Revelations of Allah-azwj, and a market for friends of Allah-azwj to be earning the Mercy in it and be hoping for the Paradise in it. So who is that who would condemn it, and it has already proclaimed with its irrevocable divorce, and has called out for its separation, and has obituarised itself and its people. It resembled the affliction for them with its afflictions, and made they yearn the (more) happiness with its happiness. (It brings) comfort with well-being and in the morning, there is grief, by making desires, and dread, and frightening, and caution. So (some) men condemn it in the morning out of regret, and other will be praising it on the Day of Qiyamah. The world reminded them, so they were reminded, and it narrated to them, so they ratified, and it preached to them, and they took the preaching’’. [189]
And he-asws said: ‘The world is a house of transit to a house of staying, and the people in it are two (types of) men – One selling his soul, so he destroyed it, and a man who bought his soul, so he liberated it’’. [190]
And he-asws said: ‘For every coming (thing) there is a turning around, and whatever turns around, it is as if it did not exist’’. [191]
And he-asws said: ‘The matter (death) is near, and the accompaniment is little’’. [192]
And he-asws said: ‘The departure is imminent! ’’[193]
And he-asws said: ‘But rather, the person in the world is a target of the arrows the death will be flying into it, and plunder the calamities rushing to it, and with every gulp there is choking, and in every morsel eaten there is suffocation; and the servant will not achieve a bounty except by separation of another, and he will not receiv