Reproaching And Disciplining The Self

Amīr al-mu’minīn, peace be upon him, said:
O’ slaves of desires, cut them short because he who leans on the world gets nothing out of it except the pain of hardships. O’ people, take upon yourselves your own training and turn away from the dictates of your natural inclinations.

The Messenger of Allah (saws) said:
“Indeed, whoever is presented with this world and the Hereafter and chooses this world over the Hereafter will meet Allah on the Day of Resurrection with no good deed by which he may protect himself from the Fire. But whoever chooses the Hereafter over this world and abandons the world, Allah will be pleased with him and forgive his evil deeds.”

The Messenger of Allah at the end of his sermon would say:
‘Tuba (a tree in paradise) is for those whose moral behavior is polite, whose consciences are clean, whose privacy as well as public matters are all well, who give the excess in their properties in charity, who hold back their unnecessary words and yield to justice for people against their own souls.