مُصَاحِبُ [مُصَاحَبَةُ] الدُّنْيَا هَدَفُ النَّوَائِبِ وَالْغِيَرِ

One who accompanies this world is a target of calamities and mishaps

المصدر : غرر الحكم ودرر الكلم

الدُّنْيَا لَا تَصْفُو لِشَارِبٍ وَلَا تَفِي لِصَاحِبٍ

This world is neither clean for any drinker [to drink from] nor is it loyal to any owner

المصدر : غرر الحكم ودرر الكلم

الزَّمَانُ يَخُونُ [مَنْ‏] صَاحَبَهُ وَلَا يَسْتَعْتِبُ لِمَنْ عَاتَبَهُ

Time betrays its companion and does not please the one who blames it

المصدر : غرر الحكم ودرر الكلم

إِنَّ الدُّنْيَا تُخْلِقُ الْأَبْدَانَ وَتُجَدِّدُ الْآمَالَ وَتُقَرِّبُ الْمَنِيَّةَ وَتُبَاعِدُ الْأُمْنِيَّةَ كُلَّمَا اطْمَأَنَّ [بِهَا] صَاحِبُهَا مِنْهَا إِلَى سُرُورٍ أَشْخَصَتْهُ مِنْهَا إِلَى مَحْذُورٍ

Verily this world wears out the bodies, renews hopes, brings death near and takes aspirations far awayEvery time its inhabitant becomes contented and pleased with it, it sends him back to adversity

المصدر : غرر الحكم ودرر الكلم

إِنَّ الدُّنْيَا لَمَشْغَلَةٌ عَنِ الْآخِرَةِ لَمْ يُصِبْ صَاحِبُهَا مِنْهَا سَيْباً إِلَّا فَتَحَتْ عَلَيْهِ حِرْصاً عَلَيْهَا وَلَهَجاً بِهَا

Verily this world is a means of distraction from the HereafterIts companion obtains nothing from it except that it opens for him [the door of] greed for it and attachment towards it

المصدر : غرر الحكم ودرر الكلم

جَارُ الدُّنْيَا مَحْرُوبٌ وَمَوْفُورُهَا مَنْكُوبٌ

The one who seeks refuge in this world is ruined and the one who takes his fill from it is destroyed

المصدر : غرر الحكم ودرر الكلم

مَنْ أَمِنَ الزَّمَانَ خَانَهُ وَمَنْ أَعْظَمَهُ أَهَانَهُ

Whoever feels safe from time is betrayed by it and whoever regards it as great is humiliated by it

المصدر : غرر الحكم ودرر الكلم