The ones who prefer the worldly life over the Hereafter and avert [people] from the way of Allah , seeking to make it (seem) deviant. Those are in extreme error.


[Qur'aan 14:3]


Ibn Kathiir writes:


ثم وصفهم بأنهم يستحبون الحياة الدنيا على الآخرة ، أي : يقدمونها ويؤثرونها عليها ، ويعملون للدنيا ونسوا الآخرة ، وتركوها وراء ظهورهم


Then He characterized them as loving this worldly life over the next life, meaning that they give it precedence over the life of the next world. They work for this world and forget the next world. And they leave it [i.e. the life of the next world] behind their backs.


ويحبون أن تكون سبيل الله عوجا مائلة عائلة وهي مستقيمة في نفسها ، لا يضرها من خالفها ولا من خذلها


And they love that the way of Allaah become twisted though it is straight in itself and is not affected by the one who opposes it or leaves it.