I am no more in this world than like a rider who rested...
I am no more in this world than like a rider who rested under a tree then he left it and went on…” [^11] His executor Imam Ali (A.S.) says: “I beware you of this world as it is an abode to be left and not an abode of hope and enjoyment, it has adorned herself with its arrogance, cheated by its ornaments, it is despised by its creator so He mixed its “halaal” with its “haraam”, its evil with its god, its life with its death and its sweat with its bitter, Allah Hasn’t recommended it to his lovers and Hasn’t refrained from granting it to His enemies, its good is little, its evil is forth coming, what is collected in it is exhausted, its properties are spoliated, its prosperous building demolishes, so what good has an abode which is ruined like the ruin of building, and an age exhausted just as food is exhausted, and a duration which runs out as the journey runs out…”[^12] Alsheikh Aldailemi says: No one could express the reality of this world as Ameeral mu’amineen (A.S.) did by his saying: “It is a residence surrounded by calamities, known of treachery, its circumstances do not last, its dwellers are not safe, her states are changeable, she deals with her inhabitants in various ways, living in it is dispraised, security in it is nonexistent, her inhabitants in her are but targets, she hits them with her arrows and exterminates them by her death…”[^13] It was natural that this deep realization of this world leads to an extreme precaution of it.
It is enough to give this narration as an example: Muaweia asked Zerrar Ebna Zumrah Alsheibaani about Ameer Almu’amineen (A.S.), he said: I give a witness that I have seen him in some of his circumstances as night had loosened its curtains while he was standing in his (Mihrab), gripping his beard, fidgeting like a snake- bitten person, crying like a grieved man saying: “O world’, O world’ away from me, have you molested me, or have you longed for me?! May this time not approach, how impossible!
Cheat other than me; I have no need to you, I have divorced you three times, without possibility of returning as your living is short, your importance is little, your hope is mean alas!