Protect your faith with your worldly life and you will gain both, but do not protect your worldly life with your faith lest you lose both.
Woe to you, O child of Adam! Know that hardness of heart, lethargy of satiety, and the pride of power hinder good deeds and bring sluggishness. They make one forget remembrance and heedless of impending death; to the point that a person trapped in worldly attachment is as though intoxicated by wine.
Whoever disobeys worldly desires, the world obeys them.
Due to worldly attachment, ears have grown deaf to hearing wisdom and hearts have become blind to the light of insight.
Make this world your prison so that the hereafter may become your paradise.
Whoever serves the world, the world uses them, and whoever serves God, the world serves them.
Whoever humiliates himself for worldly people will be stripped of the garment of virtue.
The example of the world is like sea water—whenever a thirsty person drinks from it, it only increases their thirst until it kills them.
If you knew about the world what I know, your souls would find relief from it.
The one who is greedy for worldly things is like a silkworm; the more it wraps itself in silk, the further its escape becomes, until it dies of suffocation.
Indeed, when you turn your back on the world, it will welcome you.
Divide this world into just two words: one word for seeking the lawful, and one word for the hereafter; any third word besides these two is harmful and of no benefit, so do not desire it.
The world is like your shadow: if you stand still, it stands still, but if you chase it, it moves further away.
How can I describe an abode whose beginning is pain, whose end is annihilation, for whose lawful one is held accountable, and for whose unlawful one is punished?