(161) It is related by Qatadah bin Noman that the Apostle of God said: “When God loves anyone, He makes him avoid the world, as you make a patient avoid water [when it is harmful for him].”
                                                 -Tirmidhi and Musnad-i-Ahmad
Commentary.-‘This world’ as we have seen, means the world that makes one forgetful of God and in getting absorbed in which there is the loss of the Hereafter. Hence, whom God loves, He protects them against this wretched world as a sick-man is, sometimes, made to abstain from water.