Without the company of the friends of Allah Ta'ala, worldly people remain intoxicated by these toys of dust. They witness such beauty turning to dust before their eyes in spite of which they are not convinced that these are toys made of dust. Ah! For the sake of such toys of dust, they destroy their eternal life where there will no longer be death. This is shear foolishness. What can be said? Allah Ta'ala has made this world a place to a take lesson from. On seeing a sixteen-year-old girl, one’s intelligence is lost. It is said, “She makes me lose my senses.” When the air-hostess of any airline puts on makeup, one’s Nafs immediately “picks up.” Yet, look at the same woman in her old age, look at her once she retires, look at her when she becomes an old woman of sixty who shuffles along, will your Nafs still incline towards her and desire her? Will you still express love for her? Or will you flee from her? Similarly, the sixteen-year-old boy, that one inclines towards and desires, will become an old man of sixty. Why then do you flee on seeing him in this old age of his? Why do you say, “I am upset at seeing you.” Why are you now fleeing from those who were the cause of your forgetting Allah Ta'ala? Only now, after beauty has gone, your senses have been restored, but now there is no reward in doing so. Had you abstained and protected yourself in your youth, you would have attained Allah Ta'ala.

Ah! The entire world is a corpse! This world is a graveyard of corpses! Understand that those who are walking around today are in effect lying in their graves. Every person in the world today will, in a hundred years time, be buried within the bowels of earth. After every century, the inhabitants of the world are to be found under tons of soil. Ponder a little! Over whom are we sacrificing our lives? What is the meaning of sacrificing our loves over those who are corpses? Do not look at their present beauty. Rather look at their decline due to which you will remain safe.

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Ponder over their old age before you are taken in by their youth so that you do not hand over your heart to them.

(Taken from “The enjoyment of Zikr and Pleasure in giving up Sins”)