Hadith 18

(The book) ‘Al Kafi’ – From Muhammad Bin Yahya, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad, from Ali Bin Al Hakam, from Umar Bin Aban, from Abu Hamza, ‘From Abu Ja’far-asws having said: ‘Ali Bin Al Husayn-asws said: ‘Ali-asws Bin Al-Husayn-asws said: ‘The world is travelling away from you and the Hereafter is travelling towards you, and for each one of the those are (like being) sons (to). So be from the sons of the Hereafter and do not become from the sons of the world; and become from the ascetics in the world desirous for the Hereafter. Indeed! The ascetics in the world are taking the ground as a habitat and the dust as a bedding and the water as a perfume and have cut off from the world with a cutting off. Indeed! The one who is desirous to the Paradise would rein himself from the lustful desires, and the one fearful from the Fire would retract from the Prohibitions, and the one ascetic in the world, the difficulties would become easier upon him. Indeed! For Allah-azwj there are such servants as if they can see the people of the Paradise being in the Paradise eternally, and like the ones who see the people of the Fire being Punished in the Fire. Their wickedness (the people are) safe from, and their hearts are grieving, their selves are chaste, and their needs are light. They are observing patience for a few days and they would end up with a prolonged rest. As for the night, so they are forming a row with their feet (to pray Salat), their tears flowing upon their cheeks, and they are supplicating to their Lord-azwj striving to free their necks (from the Fire). And as for the day, so they are forbearing, scholarly, righteous, pious, as if like the arrows freed from the fins (slim) due to worship. The beholder would look at them and he would be saying, ‘A sickness’; and (but) there is no sickness with the group or any confusion, for the group has indulged in a great matter from the remembrance of the Fire and whatever is in it’’. [20]