Allah's Plan For You & Me

World

✦⋆· Prophet Muhammad (saw) said, "The world is the plantation for the Hereafter."

● "The world is not trouble-free for the believer; how can it be when it is his prison and his trial?"

● "The world is cursed along with what is in it, except that through which the pleasure of Allah is sought."

● "The gravest of the grave sins is love of the world."

● "Love of the world is the origin of every act of disobedience and the beginning of every sin."

● "Searching for what will improve you is not considered love of the world."

● "Verily Allah revealed to the world, 'Tire and wear out the one who serves you and serve the one who rejects you."

● "Do not insult the world for it is the best mount for the believer, because by means of it he attains good and through it he is saved from evil. If a servant [of Allah] says: "May Allah curse the world", the world replies: "May Allah curse the most disobedient one towards his Lord from among us!"

✦⋆· Imam Ali (as) said, "The world has been named Dunya because it is lower than everything, and the Hereafter has been named Akhira because it contains recompense and reward."

● "When this world favors somebody, it lends him the attributes and surpassing merits of others.

But when it turns its face away from him it snatches away his own excellences and fame."

● "People are the sons of the world, and no man can be blamed for loving his mother."

● "By Allah, this world of yours is worse in my eyes than the sweat of a pig in the palm of a leper."

● "Verily your world to me is more worthless than a leaf being gnawed at in the mouth of a locust. What has Ali got to do with perishable things?!"

● "Get away from me, O World! Your rein is on your own shoulders as I have released myself from your ditches, removed myself from your snares and avoided walking into your slippery places."

● "The world is for the one who abandons it and the Hereafter is for the one who seeks it."

● "Beware of the world, for verily it appears sweet and green, surrounded by carnal and base desires."

● "To sever attachments with the wicked world is the greatest wealth."

● "The example of this world is like your shadow for if you stand still, it stands still and if you chase it, it distances itself."

● "The Hereafter is secured through the world."

● "The world is the marketplace of the losers."

● "Love of the world corrupts the intellect, it deafens the heart from hearing wisdom, and it brings about a painful chastisement."

● "The world is the ground of ruin for the intellects."

● "The world is the origin of evil and the place of deceit."

● "The world is a plantation of evil."

● "Love of the world engenders greed."

● "The world lowers and abases [mankind]."

● "Verily Allah - glory be to Him - has made this world for what is after it and has put its inhabitants to trial so that He may know who from among them has the best deeds, and we have not been created for this world, nor have we been commanded to strive for it."

● Imam Ali (as) said to a man who complained regarding his needs, "Know that everything that you attain in this world that supersedes your required provision, you are considered to be its treasurer for someone else."