O son of Adam, accompany the world with your body whilst you avert it with your heart and with your concern, for indeed you shall stand with your actions, so take that which is in your hands for that which you shall confront, and with death there will come to you your news.

—’Abdullah ibn ‘Umar

(Read on pg 48, Aboo Haatim Muhammad Farooq, From the Best of Mankind. Salafi Publications. Birmingham:2006.)