فَلَا تَنَافَسُوا فِي عِزِّ الدُّنْيَا وَ فَخْرِهَا وَ لَا...

فَلَا تَنَافَسُوا فِي عِزِّ الدُّنْيَا وَ فَخْرِهَا وَ لَا تُعْجَبُوا بِزِينَتِهَا وَ نَعِيمِهَا وَ لَا تَجْزَعُوا مِنْ ضَرَّائِهَا وَ بُؤْسِهَا فَإِنَّ عِزَّ الدُّنْيَا وَ فَخْرَهَا إِلَى انْقِطَاعٍ وَ إِنَّ زِينَتَهَا وَ نَعِيمَهَا إِلَى ارْتِجَاعٍ وَ إِنَّ ضَرَّاءَهَا وَ بُؤْسَهَا إِلَى نَفَادٍ وَ كُلُّ مُدَّةٍ مِنْهَا إِلَى مُنْتَهًى وَ كُلُّ حَيٍّ فِيهَا إِلَى بِلًى Therefore, do not compete regarding honour of the world and its pride, and do not be fascinated by its adornments and its bounties, and do not be alarmed from its harms and its hardships, for honour of the world and its pride is to the termination, and its adornments and its bounties to a reversion, and its harms and its hardship are to a depletion, and all terms from it are to an end-point, and all live in it is to decay .

أَ وَ لَيْسَ لَكُمْ فِي آثَارِ الْأَوَّلِينَ وَ فِي آبَائِكُمُ الْمَاضِينَ مُعْتَبَرٌ وَ بَصِيرَةٌ إِنْ كُنْتُمْ تَعْقِلُونَ أَ وَ لَمْ تَرَوْا إِلَى الْأَمْوَاتِ لَا يَرْجِعُونَ وَ إِلَى الْأَخْلَافِ مِنْكُمْ لَا يَخْلُدُونَ And isn’t there a lesson for you all and insight in impacts of the former ones and in your past forefathers, if you use your intellect? And are you not looking at the dead that they are not returning and to the replacements from you that they will not be living eternally?

قَالَ اللَّهُ وَ الصِّدْقُ قَوْلُهُ- وَ حَرامٌ عَلى‏ قَرْيَةٍ أَهْلَكْناها أَنَّهُمْ لا يَرْجِعُونَ‏ وَ قَالَ‏ كُلُّ نَفْسٍ ذائِقَةُ الْمَوْتِ وَ إِنَّما تُوَفَّوْنَ أُجُورَكُمْ يَوْمَ الْقِيامَةِ فَمَنْ زُحْزِحَ عَنِ النَّارِ وَ أُدْخِلَ الْجَنَّةَ فَقَدْ فازَ وَ مَا الْحَياةُ الدُّنْيا إِلَّا مَتاعُ الْغُرُورِ Allah -azwj Said, and His -azwj Words are truthful: And it is Prohibited upon a town which We Destroyed, that they will not be returning [21:95] ; and Said: Every self shall taste the death, and rather you will be paid fully your Recompense on the Day of Judgement; so the one who is removed far away from the Fire and enters the Paradise he indeed has succeeded; and what is the life of the world except for a deceptive pleasure?