✦⋆· 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!"

✦⋆· "The world has been named Dunya because it is lower than every thing, 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."

● Imam Ali (as) said [regarding the world], "Do not ask in it for what is more than a sufficient means of living and do not seek from it more than what you need."

● "The world is the abode of the hypocrites and it is not the abode of the pious ones, so take from the world enough to keep your body strong, to keep yourself alive and to gain provision for your Resurrection."

● "Beware of the world, for verily with regards to its lawful things there is accountability and with regards to its unlawful things there is punishment, its beginning is hardship and its end is annihilation."

● "Beware of this deceptive and deceitful world that has been beautified by its ornaments and has seduced through its delusions... such that it has become like an unveiled bride upon whom everyone's eyes are gazing."

● "Beware of the world, for verily it is deceptive, delusive and deceitful, it is a giver that deprives, and one who clothes yet leaves you naked."

● "Beware of the world, for verily it is the enemy of the friends of Allah and the enemy of His enemies too. As for the friends of Allah, it fills them with grief and as for Allah's enemies, it deludes them."

● "Verily the world is a house of deception and deceit, it takes a spouse everyday, kills a family every night and splits up a group every hour."

● "Do not allow the abundance of what amazes you in it to deceive you because it will be only a little that you take from it."

● "Being happy with the world is foolishness."

● "It is deceitful, and all that is in it is deceptive. It is perishable and all that is on it will perish. There is no good in any of its provisions except in piety and Godwariness."

● Imam Ali (as) with regards to Allah's verse: "Under it there was a treasure belonging to them", said, 'that (the treasure) was a golden tablet upon which was written... : I wonder at those who see the world and the fluctuating states that people experience, how can they be satisfied with it?"

● "O World, deceive those who are ignorant of your tricks and who are unaware of the snares of your sly deceptions."

● "The one who worships the world and prefers it over the Hereafter seeks an unhealthy outcome."

● "View the world through the eyes of one who has renounced it and separated from it, and do not view it through the eyes of one who loves it passionately and tenderly."

● Imam Ali (as) heard someone abusing and blaming the world and said to him, "O you, who is blaming the world, who have been allured and enticed by it, and have been tempted by its false pretenses.

You allowed yourself to be enamored of, to be captivated by it and then you accuse and blame it.

Have you any reason or right to accuse it and to call it a sinner and seducer? Or is the world not justified in calling you a wicked knave and a sinning hypocrite?

When did it make you lose your intelligence and reasoning?

And how did it cheat you or snake false pretenses to you?

Did it conceal from you the fact of the ultimate end of everything that it holds, the fact of the sway of death, decay and destruction in its domain?

Did it keep you in the dark about the fate of your forefathers and their final abode under the earth?

Did it keep the resting-place of your mother's a secret from you? Do you not know that they have returned to dust?

Many times you must have attended the sick persons and many of them you must have seen beyond the scope of medicine.

Neither the science of healing nor could your nursing and attendance nor your prayers and weeping prolonged the span of their lives, and they died.

You were anxious for them, you procured the best medical aid, you gathered famous physicians and provided best - medicines for them.

Death could not be held back and life could not be prolonged. In this drama and in this tragedy did the world not present you with a lesson and a moral?

Certainly, this world is a

house of truth for those who look into it carefully, an abode of peace and rest for those who understand its ways and moods and it is the best working ground for those who want to procure rewards for life in the Hereafter.

It is a place of acquiring knowledge and wisdom for those who want to acquire them, a place of worship for the friends of Allah and for Angels.

It is the place where Prophets received revelations of Allah.

It is the place for virtuous people and saints to do good deeds and to be assigned with rewards for the same.

Only in this world they could trade with Allah's Favors and Blessings and only while living here they could barter their good deeds with His Blessings and Rewards.

Where else could all this be done?

Who are you to abuse the world when it has openly declared its mortality and mortality of everything connected with it, when it has given everyone of its inhabitants to understand that all of them are to face death, when through its ways it has given them all an idea of calamities they have to face here, and through the sight of its temporary and fading pleasures it has given them glimpses of eternal pleasures of Paradise and suggested them to wish and work for the same.

If you study it properly you will find that simply to warn and frighten you of the consequences of evil deeds and to persuade you towards good actions, every night it raises new hopes of peace and prosperity in you and every morning it places new anxieties and new worries before you.

Those who passed such lives are ashamed of and repent the time so passed abuse this world.

But there are people who will praise this world on the Day of Judgment that it reminded them of the Hereafter and they took advantage of these reminders.

It informed them of the effects of good deeds and they made correct use of the information it advised them and they were benefited by its advice."

✦⋆· "The world is of two types: that which causes one to attain [success in the Hereafter] and that which is cursed."

✦⋆· "The world is the best aid for the Hereafter."

✦⋆· "The status of this world according to me is just as a dead body, where I will only eat from it if I am compelled to do so."

● "The fountainhead of every mistake is love of the world."

● "The one who attaches his heart to the world has attached his heart to three things, endless worry, false expectation and an unattainable hope."

● "Whoever increasingly becomes ensnared by the world, his distress will be greater when separating from it."