What has come in Reference to this World and One who Seeks it

“This world appeared to ʿĪsā (a) in the for of a blue-eyed woman. He asked her, ‘How many have you married?’ She said, ‘Many.’ He asked, ‘Did you divorce them all?’ She said, ‘Rather, I killed them all!’ He said, ‘Then woe to your remaining spouses! How can they not take lesson from those who have passed?’” Abū ʿAbdillāh (a) [then] said, “The example of this world is like the salty sea – every time a thirsty person drinks from it, it increases his thirst, until it kills him.”

17.Al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī said, “I heard Abā al-Ḥasan (a) say, ‘[One of the things] that ʿĪsā (a) said to the disciples was, “Do not grieve over what you have missed of this world of yours, just as the people of this world do not grieve over what they have missed from their Hereafter when they acquire their worldly objectives.”’”