The Prophet (S) stated that...

The Prophet (S) stated that, “Both the material world and the next life are in search of something and also are things which others are searching for.” Whatever direction we place ourselves, we see that these two things (the material world and the next life) are at the opposite side! When we aim to seek the next life, we see the material world coming after us and we become that which the material world is looking for!

Allah (SwT) has promised that whatever sustenance He has decreed for us will definitely reach us, thus even though we seek the next life (and seek to distance ourselves from the transient world), the material world still comes after us and is in search of us! The opposite of this theorem is also applicable that if we go in search of the material world, the next life will come looking for us! It will come in search of us to pull us closer to death.

We would be so engulfed in the material world, that death would come upon us and we would not even realize it! We must not think that if one goes in search of the next world that he must deprive himself of the…