the Exalted says:

“Indeed, mankind was created anxious:
when evil touches him, impatient,
and when good touches him, withholding—
except those who pray.”

What is truly blameworthy is whatever distracts one from the obligatory deeds that benefit one in the Hereafter. Whatever distracts from recommended deeds that benefit one there constitutes a shortcoming. Also blameworthy is whatever brings more harm than benefit in the Hereafter. These three principles settle the matter. Thus, it is clear that what is praiseworthy in this world may lie either in the presence of something or in its absence.

Errors may arise in renunciation, just as they do in scrupulousness:

First, some people renounce things that benefit them without causing harm, thereby neglecting obligatory or recommended acts—as when someone abstains from marriage to women, from meat, and the like. Yet the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said: “But I fast and break my fast; I marry women and eat meat. Whoever turns away from my Sunnah is not of me.”

Second, a person’s renunciation may lead him to commit prohibited acts—as when someone forgoes wealth or benefits lawfully available to him, then needs them and obtains them unlawfully, begs from people in a forbidden manner, or looks expectantly to them; such expectation is disliked.

Third, some renounce things out of laziness, idleness, and a desire for ease, rather than to seek the abode of the Hereafter through righteous deeds and beneficial knowledge. For when a servant is given to renunciation but remains idle, he becomes utterly corrupt. Such people cultivate neither this world nor the Hereafter, as stated by