156. Since the people inclined to the dunya have a bilious temperament the dunya tastes sweet to them and the Deen bitter. 157. Something enduring is worth taking and something fleeting is not worth taking. 158. Even if this world had all pleasures and beauties, its passing nature, however, is a defect which obliterates all its virtues. 159. This world is not something great and wonderful; in fact it is incomplete and ephemeral. 160. Deen will remain for ever; it serves one in this world and it will stay with one in the Aakhirat.
