If people become content with the world, be content with God.
If they rejoice in the world, rejoice in God.
If they find comfort in their loved ones, make your comfort in God.
And if they seek to know their kings and leaders and draw close to them to obtain honor and elevation through them, you seek to know God and draw close to Him.
In doing so, you achieve the ultimate honor and elevation.
Some ascetics said,
I have not known anyone who has heard of Paradise and Hell to have an hour pass without obeying God through remembrance, prayer, reading, or charity.
A man said to him, 'I cry often.'
He said, 'It is better for you to laugh while acknowledging your sins than to cry while boasting of your deeds.'
Indeed, the boastful person's deeds do not rise above his head.
He said, 'Advise me.'
He said, 'Leave the world to its people, as they have left the Afterlife to its people.'
And be in the world like a bee.
If it consumes, it consumes from the good, and if it gives, it gives from the good.
And if it lands on something, it does not break it or scratch it.
