Decline and destruction of this world

Nahj al-Balāgha · Volume 1 · Section 64 · 5 narrations

Hadith 243

O creatures of Allāh! Fear Allāh and anticipate your death by good actions. Purchase everlasting joy by paying transitory things — pleasures of this world. Get ready for the journey, for you are being driven, and prepare…

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Hadith 244

Certainly, Allāh has not created you aimlessly nor left you as useless. There is nothing between anyone of you and Paradise or Hell except death that must befall him. The life that is being shortened every moment and…

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Hadith 245

So everyone should fear Allāh, should admonish himself, should send forward his repentance and should overpower his desire, because his death is hidden from him, his desires deceive him and Satan is posted on him and he…

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Hadith 246

We ask Allāh, the Glorified, that He may make us and you like one whom bounty does not mislead, whom nothing can stop from obedience of Allāh and whom shame and grief do not befall after death.

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