(162) Abdullah bin Omar relates that the Apostle of God once said to him, grasping his shoulder with his hands: “Live in the world as if you were a stranger or a wayfarer.”
-Bukhari
Commentary.-Just as a traveler does not consider an inn or a foreign country his home, a truthful Believer should, also, not imagine the world to be his real abode and believe as if he was going to live here forever.
The design of life the Divine Apostles have preferred for mankind rests upon the principle that man should treat his earthly sojourn to be purely temporary and prepare ardently for Futurity as if he was actually seeing it, or, rather, living in it. One's life-falls in with the wishes and teachings of the Prophets to the extent to which one succeeds in producing this state within oneself, and those who fall short of it, their life has nothing in common with the precepts taught by the Apostles.