I have thrown the world prostrate before you...

I have thrown the world prostrate before you, so do not lift it up after me, for one of the evils of this world is that Allah was disobeyed in it, and one of the evils of this world is that the next world is not attained except by abandoning this one. So pass through this world without making it your home, and know that the root of all wrong is the love of this world.

Many a vain desire leaves a legacy of lasting sorrow.” (Bihar al-anwar, xiv, 327) [Jesus ('a)] said: “Blessed is he who abandons the present desire for the absent promise.” (Bihar al-anwar, xiv, 327) Jesus ('a) said: “Who would build a house on the waves of the sea? This world is that house, so you should not take it as a dwelling.'' (Bihar al-anwar,” xiv, 326) Jesus ('a) said: “Woe to the companion of the world!

How he dies and leaves it and how he relies on it and it deceives him, and how he trusts it and it forsakes him! Woe unto those who are deceived! How that which is repugnant encompasses them and that which is beloved separates from them! And that which is promised will come to them. And woe to those whose endeavors are only for the world and error.

How he will be disgraced before Allah tomorrow!” (Bihar al-anwar, xiv, 328) Jesus, Peace be upon him, is reported to have said: “How can one be of the people of knowledge if the next world is shown to him while he remains involved in this world, and what harms him is more desirable to him than what benefits him?'' (Majmu'at at warram, i, 83) It was said to Jesus ('a): “Teach us a deed for which Allah will love us.” He said: “Detest the world and Allah will love you.

(Tanbih al-khawatir, i, 134) It has been reported by Mujahid from Ibn 'Abbas from the Apostle of Allah, may the Peace and Blessings of Allah be upon him and with his folk: “Verily, Jesus. Peace be upon him, passed a city which had come to ruin and whose foundations had collapsed. He said to some of his disciples: 'Do you know what it is saying?' One said: 'No.' Jesus, Peace be upon him, said: 'It says: “Verily, the true promise of my Lord has come.

My rivers have dried up, though once they were full; my trees have withered, though once they were in bloom; my castles are in ruins and my residents have died.