Who Shall Succeed?

Beyond this world is another world for us. This world and its delights cater to the animal within us. These pleasures all fill our animal nature, while our real self slowly dies.
They say, “The human being is a rational animal,” yet we consist of two things. Lusts and desires feed our animality in this material world. But as for our true essence, its food is knowledge, wisdom, and the sight of God. The animality within us flees away from God, while our spiritual self flees away from this world.
"One of you is an unbeliever, And one of you a believer." Two people are warring within you. Who shall succeed? The one that Fortune makes her friend.
Fihi Ma Fihi Discourse 12, A. J. Arberry