Allah the Most High has said...

Allah the Most High has said: ‘Know that this world’s life is only sport and play and gaiety and boasting among yourselves, and a vying in the multiplication of wealth and children, like the rain, whose causing the vegetation to grow pleases the husbandmen; then it withers away so that you see it become yellow, then it becomes dried up and broken down; and in the hereafter is a severe chastisement and (also) forgiveness from Allah and (His) pleasure; and this world’s life is naught but a means of deception.’ [^2]” He (S) also said: “Anyone who loves the world harms his life to come.” Imam ‘Ali (a.s.) the Commander of the Faithful said: “Surely the example of this world is like the example of a serpent whose feel is soft but within it is a fatal poison.

A wise person avoids it, but an ignorant child is attracted to it.” He (a.s.) also said: “The greatest sin is the love of this world.” He (a.s.) also said: “If you love Allah expel the love of this world from your hearts.” He (a.s.) also said: “You will never meet Allah the Glorious with an action that is more harmful for you than the love of the world.” He (a.s.) also said: “The love of the world is the source of troubles and the root of afflictions.” He (a.s.) also said: “The love of the world destroys the intelligence, deafens the heart from the voice of wisdom, and causes a painful punishment.” He (a.s.) also said: “In the same way that the sun and the night cannot come together, the love of Allah and the love of this world do not come together.” He (a.s.) also said: “Surely this world and the hereafter are two confronting enemies and two divergent ways; anyone who loves this world and befriends it hates the hereafter and shuns it.

They are like the east and the west; so if anyone goes to one, he will be remote from the other.