2      The things whose benefit is limited to the world only and one cannot get any fruit of it in the Hereafter such as getting pleasure from sins and gaining benefits more than the need from permissible things, for example a piece of land, property, gold, silver, nice clothes and eating delicious foods are all included in the condemnable type of the world.

3     The type in which there are things that are helpful in performing virtuous deeds like essential food, clothes are also a good type of the world, but this world will be condemnable if one aims to get only immediate worldly benefit and pleasure from it. (Summarized from: Ihya-ul-‘Uloom, vol. 3, pp. 270-271)

مت لگا تُو دل یہاں پچھتائے گا         کس طرح جنّت میں بھائی جائے گا؟

لندن و پیرس کے سپنے چھوڑ دے     بس مدینے ہی سے رشتہ جوڑ لے

صَلُّوۡا عَلَى الۡحَبِيۡب              صَلَّى اللّٰهُ تَعَالٰى عَلٰى مُحَمَّد

Dear Islamic brothers! The world is like an inn in which travellers come and stay and after staying for a few days they leave. The one who goes to an inn and stays for a few days never has high hopes and takes interest in its liveliness. We, therefore, should not engross ourselves in this temporary home [the world], because one day we have to depart from it. This world is not our destination, but Paradise. Let’s listen to three blessed sayings of the Beloved Rasool صَلَّى اللهُ تَعَالٰى عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم in order to increase disinclination in the world and develop contemplation of the Hereafter in the heart and get the Madani pearls of advice and admonition. 

1     The Beloved Rasool صَلَّى اللهُ تَعَالٰى عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم has said: Allah عَزَّوَجَلَّ will make all the affairs of the person who is always worried about the world (and does not care for the religion) troublesome and his poverty will always be in front of him and he will get the world as much as is written in his destiny and the one whose intention is towards the Hereafter, Allah عَزَّوَجَلَّ will make all of his matters proper for his ease of mind and will put the unwillingness of this world in his heart and the world will come to him by itself. (Ibn Majah, vol. 4, pp. 424, Hadees 4105)