The world and all that it contains of adornments is hateful and dispraised in the sight of Allah, because it takes people away from the purpose of their creation; which is to worship Allah and establish His laws. The exception to such hate and dispraise is the remembrance of Allah and all what is relevant to it of acts of worship, as well as learning religious knowledge and teaching it to others, because this is the purpose of their creation.

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• This world in comparison with the Hereafter is like the amount of water one of you gets when he dips his finger in the sea. Let him see what his finger returns with
• The Messenger of Allah (may Allah’s peace and blessings be upon him) went out and supplicated for the martyrs of the battle of Uhud eight years after (their death), as if he was bidding farewell to the living and the dead
• If I had gold equal to the mountain of Uhud, it would please me that I should have nothing left of it with me after the passage of three nights, except what I might retain to repay a debt
• By Allah, the world is less worthy to Allah than this is to you