Ali's admonition on piety and the afterlife

370. It is related that it was seldom that Amīr al-mu’minīn, peace be upon him, ascended the pulpit and did not utter the following before his sermon:

O’ people, fear Allāh for man has not been created for naught so that he may waste himself, nor has he been left uncared for so that he may commit nonsensical acts. This world which appears beautiful to him cannot be the…