سورة هود

Imam Sadiq (peace be upon him): A man asked my father (Imam Baqir (peace be upon him)) after the standing at Arafat had ended: "Has Allah disappointed all these people and not accepted their prayers?!" My father said: "Whoever stops in this plain, Allah forgives him, whether he is a believer or a disbeliever. However, those who are forgiven fall into three ranks: first, the believer whom Allah has forgiven, and ... and third, the disbeliever who is present here for the sake of the finery of the life of this world — Allah forgives all the sins he has committed up to now, on the condition that he repents from disbelief and polytheism during the rest of his life. But if he does not repent, the Lord grants him his reward in full and does not deprive him of the reward for being present in this place; for He Himself has said: مَن کَانَ یُرِیدُ الحَیَاةَ الدُّنْیَا وَ زِینَتَهَا نُوَفِّ إِلَیْهِمْ أَعْمَالَهُمْ فِیهَا وَ هُمْ فِیهَا لاَ یُبْخَسُونَ، أُوْلَئِکَ الَّذِینَ لَیْسَ لَهُمْ فِی الآخِرَةِ إِلاَّ النَّارُ وَحَبِطَ مَا صَنَعُواْ فِیهَا وَ بَاطِلٌ مَّا کَانُواْ یَعْمَلُونَ [Whoever desires this world's life and its finery, We will pay them in full their deeds therein, and they shall not be made to suffer loss in respect of them. These are they for whom there is nothing but fire in the hereafter, and what they wrought in it shall go for nothing, and vain is what they do]."

The Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him and his family): [The Prophet's (peace be upon him and his family) address to Abdullah ibn Mas'ud]: After me a group will come [in the end times] who will eat colourful and delicious foods, ride four-legged animals, adorn themselves as women adorn themselves for their husbands, display their adornment to others like women, and their clothing will be the clothing of tyrant kings. These are the hypocrites of the ummah in the end times ... They claim to be upon my religion and sunnah, upon my path and way. They are far from [the way of] me and I am free of them. O son of Mas'ud! Do not sit with them in gatherings, do not buy and sell with them in the markets, do not show them the road, do not give them water. Allah the Exalted has said: مَنْ کانَ یُرِیدُ الحَیاةَ الدُّنْیا وَ زِینَتَها نُوَفِّ إِلَیْهِمْ أَعْمالَهُمْ فِیها وَ هُمْ فِیها لا یُبْخَسُونَ [Whoever desires this world's life and its finery, We will pay them in full their deeds therein, and they shall not be made to suffer loss in respect of them]. And Allah the Exalted says: Whoever desires the harvest of the hereafter, We will increase for him his harvest, and whoever desires the harvest of this world, We give him of it, but he has no share in the harvest of the hereafter. (Shura/20)

Imam Ali (peace be upon him): By Allah, this world of yours is, in my eyes, nothing but a resting place of travellers who alighted at a watering-hole, and when their caravan-leader calls out to them, they must move on. Its pleasures, in my eyes, are like hot water and pus that I drink, and like a bitter, unpleasant draught that I gulp down mouthful by mouthful, and a viper's venom that is constantly poured into me, and a collar of fire that chokes my throat. I have patched this cloak of mine so many times that I am now ashamed before the one who patches it, and in the end he said to me: 'Throw it away and do not want it patched any longer.' I said [to the world]: 'Get away from me! For those who travel by night [reluctantly, driven by the caravan-leader, praise their labour in the morning at the distance they have covered], and the weariness of sleeplessness is wiped away from us. If I wished, I could clothe myself in a patterned garment of your fine silk brocade (abqari), and eat the pith of wheat with the breasts of your chickens, and drink pure water from your delicate crystal vessels; but I affirm the word of Allah the Mighty and Majestic, who says: مَنْ کانَ یُرِیدُ الحَیاةَ الدُّنْیا وَ زِینَتَها نُوَفِّ إِلَیْهِمْ أَعْمالَهُمْ فِیها وَ هُمْ فِیها لا یُبْخَسُونَ، أُولئِکَ الَّذِینَ لَیْسَ لَهُمْ فِی الْآخِرَةِ إِلَّا النَّار [Whoever desires this world's life and its finery, We will pay them in full their deeds therein, and they shall not be made to suffer loss in respect of them. These are they for whom there is nothing but the Fire in the hereafter].'

Imam Ali (peace be upon him): Are you not living in the dwellings and homes of those before you, whose lives were longer than yours, whose traces were more enduring, whose numbers were greater, whose armies were denser, and who were more stubborn than you against the truth? How did they worship the world? And how did they prefer it over themselves? Then, in utter humiliation, they departed from it and left. Even so, do you prefer this [worthless and faithless] world? Are you greedy for this world? Do you set your hearts on this world? Allah says: مَنْ کانَ یُرِیدُ الحَیاةَ الدُّنْیا وَ زِینَتَها نُوَفِّ إِلَیْهِمْ أَعْمالَهُمْ فِیها وَ هُمْ فِیها لا یُبْخَسُونَ. أُولئِکَ الَّذِینَ لَیْسَ لَهُمْ فِی الْآخِرَةِ إِلَّا النَّارُ وَ حَبِطَ ما صَنَعُوا فِیها وَ باطِلٌ ما کانُوا یَعْمَلُون [Whoever desires this world's life and its finery, We will pay them in full their deeds therein, and they shall not be made to suffer loss in respect of them. These are they for whom there is nothing but the Fire in the hereafter, and what they wrought in it shall go for nothing, and vain is what they do].

Ali ibn Ibrahim (may Allah have mercy on him): Whoever performs a good deed so that Allah may give him its reward in this very world, Allah will give him his reward in this world; but in the hereafter, the Fire will be his.