Hadith 82

(The book) ‘Tuhaf Al Uqool’ –
‘Amir Al-Momineen-asws said: ‘I-asws caution you of the world for it is sweet, green (young/beautiful). It is surrounded by the lustful desires, and it is beloved with the current and built with the (future) hopes and adorned with the deceptions. Its joy is not permanent, and its sudden disasters cannot be trusted. It is deceitful, harmful, transient, depleting, destructive, treacherous, not returning when it stays away to the wishes of the people desirous regarding it and are satisfied with it. It becomes like what Allah-azwj the Glorious Said: like water We Send it from the sky, so it mingles with the vegetation of the earth, then it becomes shattered which the winds scatter. And Allah was always Able upon all things, Powerful [18: 45]. Along with it, a person does not happen to be in joy from it except it’s consequence would be tears, and he did not receive any of its hidden comforts except from its apparent harms, and it does not shade in it a drizzle of prosperity except it pours upon it a downpour of afflictions. If in the morning it gives victory, there is no safety that there would be defeat for him in the evening; and if a side from it is fresh for a person and sweet, it will be bitter upon it from (the other) side; and no person from is in a wing of safety in the evening, except he would be in most scary fear in the morning. It is deceitful, whatever in it is to perish. The ones upon it will perish. There is no good in anything from its provisions except the piety. One who takes little from it will have plenty from what he can rely on, and one who takes plenty from it will not stay for him and will decline from him after a little while. How many have trusted with it have been disillusioned by it, and ones coveting it have been knocked down by it, and ones with caution having been deceived by it; and how many were masterful with were made lowly by it, and ones with pride were returned as fearful, impoverished by it, and how many with a crown have been overthrown for the hands and the mouth. Its authority is disgrace, and its life is gloomy, and its freshness is salty, and its sweetness is bitter. It’s living one is a target of death, and its healthy one is a target of sickness, and its secure one is a target of wrongdoing, and it’s kingdom is stripped, and its mighty ones are overcome, and its fortified one is overturned, and its neighbour is made to flee. And from behind all that there are pangs of death, and it’s exhalation, and emerging horrors, and the pausing in front of the Just Judge for Him to Recompense those committers of evil for what they had done, and (for) Him to Recompense those did good, with the Goodness [53: 31]. Aren’t you (living)