Hadith 137

(The book) ‘Nahj Al Balagah’ –
‘It is reported that whenever he-asws sat evenly upon the pulpit, he-asws said before his-asws sermon: ‘O you people! Fear Allah-azwj, for no person has been Created in vain, so he plays and does not leave the vanity, so he wanders aimlessly. And what is his world which has improved for him as a replacement from the Hereafter which he uglifies it as being of evil consideration in his view? And what is the deceived who is successful from the world at his top concern, like the other one who is successful from the Hereafter with his lesser share (from the world)? ’’[201]
And he-asws said: ‘Sometimes one faces a day, and he isn’t there when it goes away, and he is joyful in the beginning of a night, and his mourners stand at the end of it’’. [202]
And he-asws said: ‘The inclining towards the world with what you witness from it, is ignorance’’. [203]
And he-asws said: ‘From the lowliness of the world unto Allah-azwj is that He-azwj is not disobeyed except in it, nor can whatever there is in His-azwj Presence be achieved except by leaving it’’. [204]
And he-asws said in description of the world: ‘It deceives, and harms, and passes by. Allah-azwj is not Satisfied for it being a reward for His-azwj friends, nor as a punishment for His-azwj enemies; and people of the world are like riders. While they have just arrived, when it is shouted at them, ‘Depart! ’’[205]
And he-asws said: ‘Is there no free man who can leave this chewed morsel for its people? There is no price for you except the Paradise, so do not be selling it except for it’’. [206]
And he-asws said: ‘Two greedy ones are not satiated – the seeker of knowledge and a seeker of world’’. [207]
And he-asws said: ‘The world has been Created for other than itself and has not been Created for itself’’. [208]
And from a sermon of his-asws: ‘Indeed, and the world is a house no one is safe from it except in it, nor can he be rescued by anything which was (done) for it. The people are Tried in it with Fitna, so whatever they are taking from it, there is an extraction for it from him, and he will be Reckoning upon it, and whatever they take from it for other, they will go ahead upon it and will be staying in it. In the view of the ones with intellect, the shade suffices as an explanation. You see it spreading until it diminishes and increases until it reduces’’. [209]
And he-asws said: ‘How can I-asws describe a house whose beginning is fatigue, and its end is annihilation? In its Permissibles there is Reckoning, and in its Prohibitions, there is Punishment. One who is rich in it is tempted, and one impoverished in it grieves, and one who strives for it loses it, and one who sits back from it, it comes to him, and one who is insightful with it will see through it, and one who looks at it, it will blind him’’. [210]