قَالَ رَجُلٌ لِأَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) وَ اللَّهِ إِنَّا لَنَطْلُبُ الدُّنْيَا وَ نُحِبُّ أَنْ نُؤْتَاهَا فَقَالَ تُحِبُّ أَنْ تَصْنَعَ بِهَا مَا ذَا قَالَ أَعُودُ بِهَا عَلَى نَفْسِي وَ عِيَالِي وَ أَصِلُ بِهَا وَ أَتَصَدَّقُ بِهَا وَ أَحُجُّ وَ أَعْتَمِرُ فَقَالَ ( عليه السلام ) لَيْسَ هَذَا طَلَبَ الدُّنْيَا هَذَا طَلَبُ الْآخِرَةِ .
Translation
Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father, from Ibn Abu Umeyr, from Hisham Bin Salim, from Abdullah Bin Abu Yafour who said, ‘A man said to Abu Abdullah<sup>asws</sup>, ‘By Allah<sup>azwj</sup>! We tend to seek the world and we love to achieve it’. So he<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘What is that which you love to do with it?’ He said, ‘Improve by it upon myself, and upon my family, and matain relationships with it, and give in charity with it, and perform Hajj and Umrah’. So he<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘This is not seeking the world. This is seeking the Hereafter’.
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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