Those who love worldly things are heedless of the hereafter. Those who love the hereafter are heedless of worldly things.
Expect from the world nothing but wealth that oppresses, poverty that distracts, disease that corrupts, old age that debilitates, and death that crushes.
Compared to the hereafter, this world is like putting your finger in the sea. See how much water you can draw!
Those who long for paradise hasten to perform good deeds. Those who fear hellfire are oblivious to desires.
The most wretched of all are those for whom poverty in this world is followed by punishment in the hereafter.
You build what you shall not inhabit, you gather what you shall not eat, and you hope for what you shall not gain.
Those who acknowledge the abode of permanence yet strive for the abode of deception are a strange wonder indeed.
The only possession that are truly yours are the food you have consumed, the clothes you have worn out, and the alms you have given away.
We behave as though duties fall on others, not us, as though death is written for others, not us, as if the dead are travelers who will soon return. We carry their bodies to the grave and consume their wealth as though...
