The Words of Imam Ali a.s
Regards This World
I warn you against this world because
it is sweet and dewy. It is surrounded
by passions, preferred for its
immediateness, built with hopes, and
adorned with deceit. Its joy is
impermanent and its disasters are
befalling without any expectation.
It is surely deceitful, harmful,
transient, fleeting, destructive, and
traitorous. In its ultimate nearness to
those who desire and are satisfied
with it, it is no more than being as
God the Majestic says about it:
This world resembles the (seasonal)
plants that blossom by the help of
the water which God sends from the
sky. After a short time all of them
fade away and the winds scatter them
(and turns them into dust). God has
power over all things.
Nevertheless, if it gives joy to
somebody it will follow it up with
distress. If it faces with ease it will
turns the back with di