316 – ʿAlī ibn Abī Maryam narrated to us, from Abū Masʿūd al-Qattāt, who said: Ibn al-Sammāk declared:

“The share of worldly evil that we fear is greater than the evil from it in which we presently find ourselves. The world’s evil only outweighs everything for us at the moment we part from it—if, because of it, we proceed to ruin.”