The intelligent person must never be deluded by this world and its dazzles

‎"The intelligent person must never be deluded by this world and its dazzles, its beauty and splendors, such that he occupies himself with it as opposed to occupying himself with the eternal Hereafter and the everlasting delight (of Paradise). Rather, he should place the world where Allah has placed it because its end will no doubt perish. Its civilizations shall become ruins, its inhabitants shall die, its magnificence will depart and its greenery will be destroyed. There will remain no arrogant leader in command and no poor and humiliated one, except that the glass of death shall pass over them. Then they will depart to the dust where they will become worn out until they return to what they were in the beginning: ruins (i.e. dust). Then the Knower of the Unseen (Allah) shall inherit the earth and all that is upon it."

- Abu Hatim (Ibn Hibban - rahimahullah)