[Pooya/Ali Commentary 57:20] Refer to the commentary of Anam: 32; Ankabut: 64 and Muhammad: 36. In this life people not only play and amuse themselves and each other, but they show off, boast, and pile up riches, manpower and influence, in rivalry with each other. In childhood man is enamoured of sport and play, in adult age he is seized with feelings of self display, and in old age he is dominated by pride at wealth and offspring. Allah's mercy, pleasure and pardon are free and open to all, like His rain. Those who love the pleasures of this world are delighted with the green of the growth, which soon withers, becomes dry and crumbles to pieces, like the worldly pleasures, pomps, boastings and possessions. The good men take the real spiritual harvest and store it for the hereafter. Once the Holy Prophet drew the attention of his companions to the swollen, rotten and stinking dead body of a goat lying on the ground, and asked them if any of them would buy it for a penny. All refused. Then he said: "The value of the worldly possessions is lower than this corpse." Imam Ali said: "The world is a corpse. Whoever seeks it is a dog." "O Ammar, grieve not if the pleasures of this world are kept away from you. Honey, the best and sweetest food, is the saliva of an insect, the bee. The nicest dress is made of silk which is the refuse of a small worm. The most refreshing scent, musk, is the blood of an animal, the deer. The best drink is water which is also used by animals to quench their thirst. The most passionate act is cohabiting in which urinative organs are used." The Holy Prophet said: "This world is a prison for the believers, and a garden for the disbelievers." "Treat this world as a land to cultivate harvest for the hereafter." Aqa Mahdi Puya says: This world is a test, and the life hereafter is its consequence-punishment or reward.

1. Average age for sports is of a school going child where necessary exercise for body building is religiously permissible, without ruining character. 2. Then comes an age of married life wherein man is deceived by attending dances, cinemas, clubs etc. (both morally and religiously condemned). 3. Then come the age of decoration where time and money are spent in frailty (on vanity). 4. Then follows middle age for winning power and pelf (by involving in politics. 5. Then a desire to pass on the inheritance to perpetuate name and property. These can be compensated by training children on religious grounds, study of scientific subjects to keep the mind healthy, by pilgrimage and study of religious jurisprudence, and creation of trust (any excess of wealth) instead of leaving it in the hands of those about whose spending, as per Divine Commands, you are not confident. The world is a dream within a dream, and as we grow older, each state is an awakening, the youth awakes as they think from childhood, then full grown despises the pursuits of youth as visionary, and the old looks down upon humanity as feverish dreams. Death the last sleep! No, it is the last and final awakening (so far as deeds are concerned). Pleasure and pain may be physical, mental, and spiritual may be true or false having respective effect according to the purpose for which they are courted. Life of Divine Lights courting loss of honour, life, and property simply to win Divine will to maintain Islam are of the highest grade, brought into play, for the public to emulate. Similarly, mind and body both can be regulated to yield eternal fruits, after necessary requirements for the worldly life are achieved.