Hadith 200

(The book) ‘Al Majaalis’ of Al-Mufeed – from Al Marzubani, from Muhammad Bin Ahmad the scribe, from Ahmad Bin Abu Khaysama, from Abdul Malik Bin Dahir, from Al Amsh, from Abaya Al Asadi, from Ibn Abbas, may Allah‑azwj have Mercy on him, said, ‘Amir Al-Momineen Ali-asws Bin Abu Talib-asws, may the Salawaat of Allah-azwj be upon him-asws, was asked about Words of the Exalted: Indeed! The friends of Allah, there would neither be fear upon them, nor would they be grieving [10: 62]. It was said to him-asws, ‘Who are these friends? ’
Amir Al-Momineen-asws said: ‘They are a people being sincere for Allah-azwj the Exalted in His‑azwj worship, and they look at the esoteric of the world while the people look at its apparent. They recognise its future while the people besides them are deceived with its current, so they leave what they know it (knowledge) would be leaving them, and they kill off from it what they know that it (what they knew) would be killing them’. Then he-asws said: ‘O you who has sickened his soul with the world, the one galloping upon its ropes, the one struggling in its construction what would be ruined from it! Can’t you see the lying places of your forefathers in the decay, and the beds of your sons thrown beneath the soil? How many became sick by your hands and were ill by your palms. The physicians were described for them, and the loved ones were fatigued for them, but neither did your riches avail them nor would your medicine save them’’. [40]