Herein they earn His mercy and herein they acquire Paradise by way of profit.

Herein they earn His mercy and herein they acquire Paradise by way of profit.[^4] God Almighty’s words, (وَنِعْمَ دَارُ المُتَّقِينَ) — What a good abode is the house of the pious— relate to the world, according to the interpretation of Imam al-Baqir (A) reported in a tradition by al-Ayyashi. Therefore, this world, being as it is the manifestation of and witness to His Beauty and Majesty, is not at all condemnable in this sense.

That which is condemnable is the world of man himself in the sense of his absorption in the world of carnal nature and his attachment and love for it. That world is the source of all vices and all inward and outward sins, as reported in al-Kafi from Imam al-Sadiq (A): قَالَ الإمَامُ الصَّادِقُ عَلَيْهِ السّلامُ: رَأْسُ كُلِّ خَطِيئَةٍ حُبُّ الدُّنْيَا.

Imam al Sadiq (A) said, “The love of the world is the source of all transgressions.”[^5] And it has been reported from Imam al-Baqir (A) that he said: مَا ذِئْبَانِ ضَارِيَانِ فِي غَنَمٍ قَدْ فَارَقَهَا ر