What should be the ultimate target for the human being?

In a letter to Ibn Abbas the Governor of Basra, Imam Ali (AS) wrote:

 

What should be the ultimate target for the human being?

Your happiness must be for provisions which are useful for you in the hereafter, and your sorrow must be for losing a thing (a Provision) for the hereafter. Do not get overjoyed for what you attain in the world (worldly goods/properties), and do not get too distressed for what you lose in the world (worldly assets); and dedicate your efforts for the world (you enter) after death [1].

[1] Nahjul Balaghah, Letter 22.

Source: en.shafaqna.com

 

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