From the morals and manners of the Salaf (Pious predecessors) was that they would feel that the world was insignificant as the Messenger of Allah( Peace be upon him) said, “What is the world compared to the Afterlife except like one of you was to put his finger in a sea and see how much water it retains'" He (Peace be upon him) also said, 'If the world meant as much as a wing of a mosquito to Allah, He would, not have let the disbeliever take a drink of water (from it).
Maalik ibn Deenar (Rahimahullah) said, "Beware of the sorcerer (the world) who enchant the hearts of the scholars distracting them from Allah the Most High. Its nature is uglier than the magic Haarut and Maarut came with, since their magic separated a man from his wife, where as the world separates a slave from his Master."
Hasan al-Basri used to say, 'We have met a certain people to whom the world was like something entrusted to them which they would have to give back to its owner. They saw that they did not own anything therein, so they traveled lightly to the hereafter’.
‘Abdullah ibn Mubarak would say “The world is the believers’ prison. The best action in the prison is patience and control of one’s anger. The believer has no country in the world. His land will be there tomorrow in the afterlife.
One of the Salaf used to say:”If you want to be close to Allah then put an iron wall between yourself and your desires”.
Source: from the characteristics of the salaf
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