Chapter 7 - On Blaming the World

God's Prophet (a.s) said: “The world is a prison for a believer and a cause of his grief. But it is the Heaven for the pagans, and is a source of comfort for them.”

a man complained to Imam Sadiq (a.s) about his hard life. The Imam asked: “How is it my fault? You have chosen it yourself.” The man asked: “When did I choose it?” Imam Sadiq (a.s) said: “ God offered you this world and the Hereafter. You preferred the Hereafter. In this world the believers are guests of the pagans. In this world you eat, drink, wear clothes and get married. But in the Hereafter, they will not eat, drink, wear clothes or get married. They will ask you to intercede on their behalf in the Hereafter, and you will not intercede for them. God the Almighty said that they would ask you: “Pour down to us water or anything that God doth provide for your sustenance” but they will be told that: “Both these things hath God forbidden to those who rejected Him.” [The Holy Quran: Araf 7:50]