Those who run after Dunya

Bismillahi 'r-rahmani 'r-raheem

"You are running for the world to earn things from the world but you are not going to. If you are not making Allah happy with you then the world is not going to give you the best of it. It's going to give you only the headaches of it and the burdens of it because the world has also been ordered by the Creator Allah (subhana wa ta'ala) that, "Those who run after you, run away from them. Cheat them and fool them saying to them, `I am yours. Come, come.' And they will be busy with you running after you all the time. But never give any treasure to them. Keep them wandering, keep them in pain, keep the mind suffering and keep them running after you. Any minute, any second they turn away from you and they turn their faces towards Me then put all the treasures under their feet." This is the order that Allah has given to this world. Except man, all other creatures are obeying the order. Except man. Man has been created in Ahsani Taqweem, as the most perfect one, but man is the one that is disobeying the order. All other creatures and anything that you are seeing, alive or dead (to you it's dead but in the Divine Presence everything has a life, everything in existence has a life in their own world) are obeying that order."

- Sheykh Abdul Kerim al-Haqqani al-Qubrisi.