✍🏻 Al-Hasan al-Bashri rahimahumallah said,
“May God bless someone who seeks wealth in a good way, spends it modestly, and gives the rest.
Direct the rest of this property in accordance with what God has directed.
Put it in the place commanded by God.
Indeed, the generation before you took the world as much as they needed.
As for more than that, they put others first.
Know, indeed, death is so close to the world that it shows its various evils.
For God's sake, not a single sensible person feels happy in the world.
Therefore, beware of these forked roads, whose mouths are astray and whose promise is hell. I met a group of people from this early generation of people.
When the night has lowered its veil of darkness, they stand up, then (prostrate) spread their faces. Tears welled up in their cheeks.
They prayed to their Maula (i.e. Rabb) to free His servants (from hell).
When doing pious deeds, they are happy and ask Allah to accept the deed.
On the contrary, when they commit a crime, they grieve and ask God to forgive them. "