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Imam Amir-ul-Mu'mineen Ali [a] said
Amir al-Mu'minin Im?m 'Al? ibn Ab? T?lib (a.s.) with regards to Allah's verse: "Under it there was a treasure belonging to them", said, 'that (the treasure) was a golden tablet upon which was written : I wonder at those who see the world and the fluctuating states that people experience, how can they be satisfied with it?
Ma`ani al-Akhbar, p. 200, no. 1; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 1003 link
He who loves his world has harmed his Hereafter.
Bihar al-Anwar, v. 73, p. 81, no. 43; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 1006 link
Imam Amir-ul-Mu'mineen Ali [a] said
The world is the ground of ruin for the intellects.
Ghurar al-Hikam, no. 921; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 999 link
Imam Amir-ul-Mu'mineen Ali [a] said
The world is a plantation of evil.
Ghurar al-Hikam, no. 401; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 999 link
Imam Amir-ul-Mu'mineen Ali [a] said
The world lowers and abases [mankind].
Ghurar al-Hikam, no. 3; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 999 link
Imam Amir-ul-Mu'mineen Ali [a] said
If you make your religion secondary to your worldly affairs, you have destroyed both your religion and your worldly affairs, and thus you will be among the losers in the Hereafter. But if you make your worldly affairs secondary to your religion, you have safeguarded your religion and your worldly affairs and you will be among the victorious ones in the Hereafter.
Ghurar al-Hikam, no. 3750-3751; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 1008 link
Allocate for yourselves a portion of the world by taking from it that which is lawful of what you desire, and that which does not breach the honourable virtues and that wherein there is no extravagance. And in this way, use it to assist [and improve] the matters of religion, for it has been narrated that, 'The one who abandons their worldly affairs for their religion is not from us, and neither is the one who abandons their religion for their worldly affairs.
Bihar al-Anwar, v. 78, p. 321, no. 18; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 1008 link
Imam Amir-ul-Mu'mineen Ali [a] said
The parable of this world is like your shadow - if you stop, it stands still, and if you chase it, it distances itself from you.
Ghurar al-Hikam, no. 9818; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 1009 link
The parable of this world is like that of a snake, it is soft to touch but it contains a deadly poison. Men of intellect are cautious whereas children extend their arms towards it.
Bihar al-Anwar, v. 78, p. 311, no. 1; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 1009 link
The parable of this world is that of sea water, however much the thirsty man drinks from it, his thirst intensifies until it kills him.
Tuhaf al-`Uqoul, no. 396; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 1009 link
The world was embodied to Jesus (AS) in the form of a blue-eyed woman, and he said to her, 'How many have you married?' she said, 'Lots', so he asked, 'So all of them divorced you?', she replied, 'No, rather I killed all of them', then Jesus (AS) said, 'Woe upon your current spouses, for how do they not take a lesson from your previous ones?!
Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 1009 link
It is narrated in Tanbih al-Khawatir that the archangel Gabriel (AS) said to Prophet Noah (AS), 'O prophet who has lived for the longest number of years, how did you find this world?' he replied, 'Like a house which has two doors, I entered through one and then left through the other.'
Tanbih al-Khawatir, v. 1, p. 131; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 1009 link
Verily this world is a bridge, so cross over it but do not build on it.
al-Khisal, p. 65, no. 95; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 1010 link
This world when compared to the Hereafter is just as if one of you dips his finger in the sea and sees what he comes out with.
Bihar al-Anwar, v. 73, p. 119, no. 110; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 1010 link
Imam Amir-ul-Mu'mineen Ali [a] said
The world is a transitory and mobile thing, even if it waits for you, do not wait for it.
Ghurar al-Hikam, no. 1802; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 1010 link
Imam Amir-ul-Mu'mineen Ali [a] said
O people, verily the world is a passage while the Hereafter is a permanent abode, so take [as much as you can] from the passage for the permanent abode.
Nahj al-Balagha, Sermon 203; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 1010 link
Imam Amir-ul-Mu'mineen Ali [a] said
This world is a transitory place and not a permanent one. The people therein are of two types, the man who has sold his self [to his passions] and thus ruined it, and the man who has purchased his self [by control against his passions] and thus freed it.
Nahj al-Balagha, Saying 133; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 1010 link
[Consider] your sojourn in this world just as a house that you stayed in and [soon] departed from, or an object of perfection that you witnessed in a dream then you awoke and not a thing from it remained with you. I have given you this parable because this world, according to the people of intellect and knowledge of Allah, is just as the shadow in the shade.
al-Kafi, v. 2, p. 133, no. 16; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 1011 link
The world in the eyes of the learned ones is like a shadow.
Bihar al-Anwar, v. 73, p. 126, no. 123; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 1011 link
Luqman(a.s.) said to his son: the world is a deep ocean in which many worlds have already drowned, so make Godwariness your boat, faith its content, trust in Allah its sail, reason its custodian, knowledge its guide and patience its inhabitants.
al-Kafi, v. 1, p. 16, no. 12; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 1011 link
Imam Amir-ul-Mu'mineen Ali [a] said
[The world] is a house surrounded by trials, well-known for treachery, whose conditions do not last, whose inhabitants do not remain safe, its states are variable, its ways are changing, life in it is shameful and security in it is non-existent.
Nahj al-Balagha, Sermon 226; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 1011 link
The world is cursed along with what is in it, except that through which the pleasure of Allah is sought.
Kanz al-`Ummal, no. 6088; Mizan ul Hikmah page No. 997 link
In the Day of Judgment, all affluent people will wish to have only possessed their daily bread in worldly life.
Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1047; Page No. 147 link
In the Day of Judgment, God will bestow the reward of seventy-two truthful men on a child who spends his pre-
Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1048; Page No. 147&148 link
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