The hereafter

There is no joy in which the king should take satisfaction save a joy attended by hope of a good hereafter;

and do not lead him into the fancy that partaking of them removes tedium or weariness and is more profitable than casting them aside, for that is among the most contemptible and the basest of fancies, and a more ruinous bargain than his who sells the sufficiency of life and the noblest of the works that lead to the everlasting felicities for the meanest of bestial acts, which are the doing of boys and women.

Know that when I love a servant I withdraw this world from him, set him to work for the hereafter, and show him the defects of this world so that he guards against it and works the work of the people of the Garden, through My mercy toward him;

and if the soul has an innate orientation toward passing from this world over to the world of the hereafter, and an essential, substantial motion toward nearness to God, exalted be He, toward entry into the world of spirits and toward being veiled from the abode of darknesses and the corporeal veils — for embodiment is the very veil, and darkness, and ignorance — then what is the cause of souls' a …

One holds it impossible (1), another holds it admissible — but he did not light upon the point that in the vision of Him in the abiding abode there is a kind of apprehension.

and that there is no enemy more hostile to the son of Adam than his own soul, which wants nothing but this world and loves nothing but it, while the spirit calls to the hereafter and gives it preference.