Hadith 46

(The book) ‘Nahj Al Balagah’ –
‘Fear of Allah-azwj is a key to guidance and a treasure of the Hereafter, and liberation from every ownership (slavery) and salvation from every destruction. By it, the seeker succeeds and the fleer escapes and the desirous one achieves. Therefore work, and the deeds get raised, and the repentance benefits, and the supplication is heard, and situation is calm, and the Pens are flowing (recording the deeds); and rush with the deeds before the age is overturned (into old age), or a withholding illness, or pure death (comes to you). Surely, the death is a demolisher of your pleasures, and dampens your lustful desires, and distances your objectives. (It is) an unloved visitor, a pair not to be overcome, and an unsought killer. It casts its ropes to you and its evils surround you, and aims it’s arrows to you, its sway over you is mighty, and its enmity is continuous upon you, and it hardly misses (turns away) from you. Very soon the gloom of its darkness will overwhelm you, and the severity of its illness, and darkness of its immersion, and nonsensical utterances during its pangs, and pain of its destruction, and darkness of its layers, and bitterness of its taste. It is as if it is coming to you suddenly, so it silences your whisperers, and separates your group, and effaces your impacts, and devastates your houses, and urges your inheritors to be distribute your inheritances between the special intimate ones who did not benefit and the grieving near relatives could not protect you, and additionally, the gloaters were not alarmed (for you). Therefore, it is upon you all with the striving, and the struggling, and equipping, and the preparation, and the providing in the house of provision, and do not let the world deceive you like what the ones before you from the past communities had been deceived and the bygone generations, those who has milked its udders and attained its deceit, and depleted their periods, and worn out its new things. Their dwellings became graves, and their wealth became an inheritance(s). Neither are they recognising the ones who come to them (their graves) nor are they paying attention to the one who cries for them, nor are they responding to the ones calling them. Therefore be cautious of the world for it is treacherous, deceitful, cheating. It gives, prevents, clothes, strips. Its prosperity is not permanent nor are its hardships terminal, nor does its afflictions die down’’. [60]