Hadith 88

(The book) ‘Tuhaf Al Uqool’ –
‘Jabir Bin Abdullah Al-Ansary said, ‘We were with Amir Al-Momineen-asws in Al-Basra. When he-asws was free from the fighting the ones who (had come to) kill him-asws, he-asws emerged to us at the end of the night. He-asws said: ‘What are you (discussing) in? ’ We said, ‘Condemnation of the world’. He-asws said: ‘Based upon what are you condemning the world, O Jabir? ’
Then he-asws praised Allah-azwj and extolled upon Him-azwj and said: ‘As for after, what is the people with a people condemning the world? Are they arrogating the ascetism in it? The world is at the status of the honesty for the one who is honest with it, and a dwelling of well-being for the one who understands about it, and it is a house of riches for the one who provides (for the Hereafter) from it. There are places of Sajdah of the Prophets-as of Allah-azwj in it, and descent of His-azwj Revelation, and praying places of His-azwj Angels, and dwelling of His-azwj Loved ones, and a store of His-azwj friends. They attain the Mercy in it, and they gain the Paradise from it. So what then would condemn the world, O Jabir, and it has proclaimed with irrevocable divorce, and called for its termination, and has attributed itself with the decline, and has exhibited the afflictions with its afflictions, and it has made desirous with its happiness to the happiness of comfort along with a calamity, and it begins with a bounty and well-being, as a dread and a desire. A people condemn it during regret and other praise it during the safety. It served them all. It reminded them, so they remembered, and it preached them, so they took preaching, and it frightened them, so they feared, and it made them desirous, so they were desirous. O you condemner of the world, the one deceived by its deception! When did it make itself condemnable to you? But when did it deceive you by itself? It is by the lying places of your forefathers from the decay, or with the lying places of your foremothers from the soil? How many a people were sick in your hands, and were ill in your palms, the cure was prescribed for them, and the physicians were sought for t