Taking Only What is Necessary from the World

Imam Ali (AS) said to a man who complained regarding his needs, ‘Know that everything that you attain in this world that supersedes your required provision, you are considered to be its treasurer for someone else.

Imam Ali (AS) said [regarding the world], ‘Do not ask in it for what is more than a sufficient means of living and do not seek from it more than what you need.

Imam Ali (AS) said, ‘The world is the abode of the hypocrites and it is not the abode of the pious ones, so take from the world enough to keep your body strong, to keep yourself alive and to gain provision for your Resurrection.

Imam al-Sadiq (AS) said, ‘The status of this world according to me is just as a dead body, where I will only eat from it if I am compelled to do so.