Quote by Ibn Ata Allah al-Iskandari: “He has given you this world so you may seek the Hereafter.”

This quote states that earthly life is a means to an end, a path for attaining spiritual rewards in the afterlife. It encourages a perspective where worldly existence serves a higher purpose, urging one to look beyond the material.

A core Sufi teaching, emphasizing that the material world should be utilized for spiritual growth and ultimate salvation, rather than being an end in itself. From *Kitab al-Hikam*.

Egyptian Sufi scholar and author born around 1250 in Alexandria, whose Hikam (Book of Aphorisms) is one of the most treasured works in Sufi literature, read and memorised across the Islamic world to this day. He was a leading figure of the Shadhili Sufi order.