No love for worldliness in heart is a means of Love for Allah عَزَّوَجَلَّ:

Dear Islamic brothers! One more means of gaining Allah’s love is to dispel the love of the worldliness from your heart. But regretfully, attracted by the world and its colourfulness the relish of love for Allah عَزَّوَجَلَّ is running out from our hearts. If we had been sincere in love with Allah عَزَّوَجَلَّ, our Salahs would have never been missed, fasts of Ramadan would have never been missed and we would have not been heedless of paying Zakat. So it has become obvious that it is the curse of the love for the worldliness due to which we couldn’t seek love for Allah عَزَّوَجَلَّ. Therefore, get rid of the love of this world as soon as possible as there is only loss in its love.

Sayyiduna Abdullah Bin Mas’ood رَضِىَ اللهُ تَعَالٰی عَـنْهُ has narrated that the Beloved Prophet صَلَّى اللهُ تَعَالٰى عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم has said: The one who is made to drink the sweet drink of the world must have the taste of three things:

1.         Such trouble that will not dispel his tiredness

2.         Such greed by which he will not be rich

3.         Such a desire which he will not be able to satisfy, because this world is one that demands and that is demanded, therefore whoever asks for this world, the hereafter will search him until he dies. When he dies, it will seize him. Whoever asks for the Hereafter, the world will keep on searching him until he achieves his full quota of sustenance from it.

(Tabarani Kabeer, vol. 10, pp. 162, Raqm 10328)

A Shaykh of Basra went to Sayyidatuna Rabi’a Basri رَحْمَةُ اللهِ تَعَالٰی عَلَيْهَا and started complaining about the world, she رَحْمَةُ اللهِ تَعَالٰی عَلَيْهَا said, ‘Perhaps you are more attached to the world because the person who loves someone more and more, mentions him a lot. If you had not been attached to the world, you would have never talked about it. (Tazkira-tul-Awliya, pp. 76)  

اِلٰہی! واسطہ دیتا ہوں میں میٹھے مدینے کا     بچا دُنیا کی آفت سے بچا عُقْبیٰ کی آفت سے

صَلُّوۡا عَلَى الۡحَبِيۡب           صَلَّى اللّٰهُ تَعَالٰى عَلٰى مُحَمَّد