Hadith 45

‘From sermon of his-asws: ‘(The world) is a house surrounded with the afflictions and well known with the betrayals. Its situations are not constant nor are its dwellers safe. Its situations are variable, and its ways keep changing. The life in it is condemnable and the safety from it is non-existent, and rather its people in it are targets being shot at by its arrows and it annihilates them with its deaths. And know, servants of Allah-azwj! You and whatever you are in from this world, are upon a way of the ones who had passed before you, from the ones who were on longer lives that you, and they dwelled in the houses, and were of further impacts. Their voices have become silent, and their movements have become still, and they bodies have decayed, and their houses are vacant, and their traces have been effaced. And their splendid castles and soft cushions have been replaced with the blocks of rocks and the stones (tombs) and the dug-out graves which have been built for the ruination of its annihilation, and its construction is with the soil. Their places are near to each other while its occupants are lonely, strangers between the people of the places. And the people with free times a busy. They are neither being comforted with the (new) homelands nor are they connecting (communicating) as the connection of the neighbours, based upon the nearness of what is between them and close by houses. And how can there be visitations between them, and the decay has grinded them with the stones and the soil. And it is as if you are going to what they have gone to, and that lying place is catching you, and that depository has gripped you. So how will it be with you if the affairs come to an end with you and the graves expel (its contents)? That is where every soul shall become acquainted with what it sent before, and they would be returned to Allah, their true Master, and it be lost from them what they had been fabricating [10: 30]’’. [59]