Example of Worldly life: Salty water, thirst and destruction

 Al-Imām ibn al-Jawzi [may Allāh have mercy on him] said:

“It was said: ‘The example of a person who seeks the worldly-life is like that of a person who drinks [salt] water from the ocean. The more he drinks, the thirstier he becomes, until he is killed by it!’” 

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