Hadith 136

e a day of his lifespan except by separation of another from his term. We are assistants of the deaths, and our souls are set up for the mortality. From where can we hope for the remaining and this night and day do not raise any nobility from anything except the turning is quick in the demolition of whatever is built, and fragmentation of whatever has been amassed’’. [194]
And he-asws said: ‘One attaching his heart with love of the world, will attract three from it – worries never being absent from him, and greed he cannot leave, and hopes he cannot realise’’. [195]
And he-asws said: ‘By Allah-azwj! This world of yours is lesser in my-asws eyes than a bone of a pig in the hand of a leper’’. [196]
And he-asws said: ‘Bitterness of the world is sweetness of the Hereafter, and sweetness of the world is bitterness of the Hereafter’’. [197] (This is the correct recording, see the earlier Hadith)
And he-asws said: ‘The people in the world are two (types of) workers – a worker in the world for the world pre-occupying him away from his Hereafter. He fears the poverty upon his posterity, and he feels safe upon himself. So he finishes his lifespan in benefitting others. And a worker who works in the world for what is (to come) after it. So there does come to him from the world which is for him without having worked (for the world). So he achieves the two shares together and owns the two houses together. He becomes a face in the Presence of Allah-azwj. He does not ask Allah-azwj for anything, so He-azwj would Prevent him’’. [198]
And he-asws said: ‘The people are sons of the world, and the man cannot be blamed upon loving his mother (being preoccupied and neglecting her)’’. [199]
And he-asws said: ‘O you people! Chattels of the world are debris full of pestilence, therefore stay aside from its pastures. Leaving it is better than being reassured to it, and its daily subsistence is cleaner than its riches. The destitution is decided upon ones of abundance, and the ones staying away from it is assisted with the comfort. One dazzled by its attractions, it will blind both his eyes, and the one feeling the passion for it, his chest will be filled with sorrows for these, alternating upon the darkness of his heart with worries pre-occupying him, and worries grieving him. Like that (he will be) until he is seized by his throat and thrown in the open ground, his aortas having been cut. It is easy unto Allah-azwj to Annihilate him, and upon the brethren to throw him (in the grave). And rather, the Momin looks at the world with an eye of taking lesson and suffice from it with a belly of the desperate one and hears from it with an ear of enmity and hatred. If it is said, ‘He is rich’, it is said, ‘He is destitute’, and if there is happiness for him with the remaining, there is grief for him with the annihilation. This, and a day has yet to come to them wherein they will be despairing’’. [200]