For example...

For example, Solomon (a) and many of the prophets and Imams (a) have found pleasure in worldly blessings; however, they have employed them for obtaining prosperity and God’s paradise in the Hereafter Therefore, there is neither a direct nor a counter-relationship between the blessings of this or the next life.

All the blessings and disasters of this world have been distributed amongst the people based on God’s perfect wisdom (al-Zukhruf:32), and all shall be tested through them (al-Anfāl:28, al-Anbiyā:35, al-A’rāf:168, al-Kahf:7, al- Māidah:48, al-An’ām:165, al-Naml:40, Āl-‘Imrān:186). Thus, enjoying or being deprived from worldly blessing does not by itself indicate living close to or far from God’s mercy and will not lead to prosperity…