The Futility of Pursuing Material Goods

Wealth is temporary and will perish - good deeds and the resulting rewards are eternal. Love of wealth is an unhealthy burden, whereas love for good deeds is healthy. Wealth can buy glasses, but not sight; wealth can buy books, but not knowledge; wealth can buy medicine, but not health.

pg 73 "Wisdom of the Seeker: Volume 1" by Shaykh Zulfiqar Ahmad Naqshbandi