مهما رأيت إنسانا يسيء الظن بالناس طالبا للعيوب فاعلم انه خبيث الباطن وأن ذلك خبثه يترشح منه، وإنما رأى غيره من حيث هو، فإن المؤمن يطلب المعاذير، والم… - Al-Ghazali

"Another dangerous property of worldly things is that they at first appear as mere trifles, but each of these so-called "trifles" branches out into countless ramifications until they swallow up the whole of a man's time and energy. Jesus (on whom be peace!) said, "The lover of the world is like a man drinking sea-water; the more he drinks, the more thirsty he gets, till at last he perishes with thirst unquenched.

السعادة كلها في أن يملك الرجل نفسه، والشقاوة كلها في أن تملكه نفسه.

A fourth group of people climbs from ignorance and pretends to possess the rational faculty. They suppose that the highest felicity is the expansion of honor and fame, the spread of reputation, a multiplicity of followers, and the influence of the command that is obeyed. Hence, you see that their only concern is eye service and cultivation of the things upon which observers cast their glance. One of them may go hungry in his house and suffer harm so that he can spend his wealth on clothes with which to adorn himself so that no one will look at him with the eye of contempt when he goes out. The types of these people are beyond count. All of them are veiled from Allah by the sheer darkness that is their own dark souls.