Verily the world and the hereafter are two opposing enemies and two different paths, so whoever loves and befriends the world has despised the Hereafter and has made it his enemy. They [the world and the Hereafter] are like the east and the west and whoever walks between them, however much he gets close to one, he distances himself from the other. After all, they are like two wives of the same husband Imam Ali (as)