Child of Adam, you are in need of your worldly portion and your portion in the hereafter, but you are more in need of the hereafter. If you put your worldly portion first, you shall lose that of the hereafter and threaten your worldly one. If you put the hereafter first, you will succeed in your worldly portion and put in its rightful place.

—Mu’adh b. Jabal

[Isfahani, Hilya I. 234]

(Read on pg 19, Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya, The Invocation of God. The Islamic Texts Society. UK:2000.)