﴿ بَلْ تُؤْثِرُونَ ٱلْحَيَوٰةَ ٱلدُّنْيَا ﴾

“But nay, [O men,] you prefer the life of this world,”

Nay, but you prefer the life of this world,He said:The believer should not be in this world other than as a man riding a piece of wood in the sea, crying the while, �O Lord! O Lord! (Yā Rabb! Yā Rabb!), in the hope that He may save him from it. Every believing servant who has renounced this world, [will find that] God has placed in charge of him an angel, who will plant in his heart all kinds of wisdom (ḥikam), just as the people of this world plant different kinds of trees in their gardens.His words, Exalted is He: