قَالَ أَبُو عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) كَمْ مِنْ طَالِبٍ لِلدُّنْيَا لَمْ يُدْرِكْهَا وَ مُدْرِكٍ لَهَا قَدْ فَارَقَهَا فَلَا يَشْغَلَنَّكَ طَلَبُهَا عَنْ عَمَلِكَ وَ الْتَمِسْهَا مِنْ مُعْطِيهَا وَ مَالِكِهَا فَكَمْ مِنْ حَرِيصٍ عَلَى الدُّنْيَا قَدْ صَرَعَتْهُ وَ اشْتَغَلَ بِمَا أَدْرَكَ مِنْهَا عَنْ طَلَبِ آخِرَتِهِ حَتَّى فَنِيَ عُمُرُهُ وَ أَدْرَكَهُ أَجَلُهُ . وَ قَالَ أَبُو عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) الْمَسْجُونُ مَنْ سَجَنَتْهُ دُنْيَاهُ عَنْ آخِرَتِهِ .
Translation
From him, from one of our companions, raising it,said, ‘Abu Abdullah<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘How many are the ones who seek for the world and do not achieve it, and its achievers have separated from it (have died). So do not pre-occupy ‘Nafs’ (yourselves) in seeking it (too much) from performing your deed, and beseech it from its Giver and its Owner. So how many are the greedy ones upon the world were cut down and pre-occupied themselves with whatever they achieved from it, (while keep themselves away) from seeking the Hereafter - until one’s life-time perished and he realised his death’. And Abu Abdullah<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘The (real) prisoner is that one whose world has imprisoned him from his Hereafter’.
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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