Hadith 265

The thirty-eighth is from Ibn Abbas who said, ‘I heard Rasool-Allah-saww saying: ‘Surely, love of the world will not settle in the heart of a servant except it will entrap him in it with three – pre-occupation its trouble not depleting, and poverty it’s riches not being reached, and hopes it’s ending is not attained. Indeed! The world and the Hereafter are two seekers and sought(s). A seeker of the Hereafter is sought by the world until his sustenance is completed, and a seeker of the world is sought by the Hereafter until the death seizes him suddenly. Indeed, and the fortunate is one who chooses a lasting one, the bounties of which are permanent, over the perishing over whose Punishment will not deplete, and he sends ahead for what he is going ahead to than what is in his hands before he leaves it behind for the one who will be happy with spending it, and he would be miserable at having collected it’’. [353]