because of importance of Allu suffah. Allah says: "And keep yourself patient (by being) with those who call upon their Lord in the morning and the evening,
seeking it is countenance and let not your eyes pass beyond them desiring adornments of the worldly life, and do not obey one whose heart we have made heedless of our remembrance and who follows his desire and whose affair is ever (in) neglect.(18 v 28)³³.
The poet continues to exercise his mental activeness by saying that the longer you chase the world, the farther it runs away from and displeases you. He makes an allusion to the uncertain and illusive nature of the universe by drawing a similarity between the world and afternoon shadow or day dream. He says the world is a perfect example of a give-and- take theory. It gives with one hand and collects more than what it has given. The poet laments that you cannot eat your cake and have it and as such make hay while the sun still bright. Stop being deceived by your age. As-Sahili poses rhetorical comment that how many millions of your peers are victims of premature death? What gives you the effrontery that you will live to touch your grey hair? The more one is engrossed in the world, the more it hampers one's afterlife. The poet says an antidote to eternal damnation is the relationship you have with your God. The poet warns that his advice should not be seen as farrago of mumbo jumbo. The poet quizzes that would there be a person who like to be imprisoned when the hope of freedom glooms?
33.
Allah says (Surah Al-hadid)
وما الحيواة الدنيا إلا متاع الغرور³⁴
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33. A.A Yusuf: the holy Qur;an, text, Translation and Commentary 1963, Baerut Lebanon: Darul-Arabiyah.
34. Ibid