This world
idea · 2 works · 2 mentions · 4 anchored passages
also in the atlas: This world the place
al-dunyā · this world · الدنيا · the sons of this world · ابناء الدنيا
in the texts
Kitāb al-Safīnah al-Nūḥīyah fī al-sakīnah al-rūḥīyah
Al-dunyā, the present world, figured as a player that toys with those who trust it and as the sphere of gain whose transience the reflecting soul recognises.
when one of you dies, his spirit hovers above his bier, saying, O my family, O my child, let not this world play with you as it played with me.
suppose I live a thousand ages and acquire what no reckoning can contain — what then comes after that?
Bayān zaghl al-ʻilm wa-al-ṭalab
The present world with its felicity and profit, identified as the motive that debases each science under review and voids the practitioner's reward.
“the enjoyment of this world is little, and the hereafter is better for him who fears God.
And if you read it for the spectacle and not for argument, and for this world
So when you see the preacher desirous of this world and thin in religion, know that his preaching gets no further than men's ears.