It is narrated from Hazrat Raja bin Haywah that he says: Hazrat Abu Darda (may Allah be pleased with him) gathered the people of Damascus and then said: Listen to your well-wishing brother. Do you accumulate that which you will not eat? And do you hope for things which you will not attain? And do you build that in which you will not live? Where are those who were before you? They accumulated much and made distant hopes, and built strong (buildings). Then what they accumulated became useless, their hopes deceived them, and their homes became graves.