Imam Al-Sadiq

said: "Be patient. Surely, Allah will make an ease for you." He kept silent for an hour, then he
came to the man and asked him: "Tell me about the prison of Kufa. How is it?" The mall
answered: "May Allah make you righteous, it is narrow and nasty. And its people are in the
worst condition." So, al- Sadiq, peace be on him, said: "You are in prison and you want
wideness in it, did you not know that life in this world is a prison for the believer."
Also consider carefully the following words of al- Sadiq, peace be on him: "Whoever enters
upon morning and evening and life in this world is his greatest intention, Allah will put
poverty between his two eyes and scatter his affair, and he will not get anything of life in this
world except that which has been allotted for him. And whoever enters upon morning and
evening and the hereafter is his greatest intention, Allah will put riches into his heart and
gather his affair."(337)
I (the author) say: That is because he whose intention is the life in this world, his appetites stir
him frequently to satisfy them while he is not able to satisfy them. So, he is always in need of
many things. Accordingly, poverty is always before him, his intention is branching because
the affairs of this life are branching, so his affairs scatter. Nevertheless, he does not get
anything of this wide life but that which has been assigned for him. As for him whose
intention is the future life, Allah will put content into his heart, so whoever is satisfied is rich.
Accordingly, his intention is not branching according to the branching affairs of life. Thereby,
his affairs come together and his mind is calm.
Also he, peace be on him, shows you the sorrow of those who seek the mortal life in this
world. He, peace be on him, said: "He whose longing is much for life in this world, his sorrow
is more when he leaves it."(338)
Concerning those who are absorbed in the life in this world, he, peace be on him, said: "He
whose heart cleaves to the life in this world (suffers from) three qualities: unperishable worry,
unobtainable hope, and inaccessible wish."(339)
I (the author) say: These are some examples of the words of al- Sadiq, peace be on him
concerning the life in this world and those who are deceived by it. He said these words to
awaken the heedless and warn them against the deceiving pleasures of the life in this world.
Hypocrisy:
Hypocrisy means seeking a position in the hearts of people through performing good deeds or
acts indicating them such as clothes, appearance, movements, and rests.
Hypocrisy is among the cardinal sins. The Verses and the traditions have dispraised it.
Concerning it many traditions have been mentioned on the authority of al- Sadiq, peace be on