In the Name of Allah, Most Merciful, Most Compassionate
Assalaamu alaykum
Dear Friends
I pray that you are well.
Allah Almighty says,
الْمَالُ وَالْبَنُونَ زِينَةُ الْحَيَاةِ الدُّنْيَا ۖ وَالْبَاقِيَاتُ الصَّالِحَاتُ خَيْرٌ عِندَ رَبِّكَ ثَوَابًا وَخَيْرٌ أَمَلًا ﴿٤٦﴾ وَيَوْمَ نُسَيِّرُ الْجِبَالَ وَتَرَى الْأَرْضَ بَارِزَةً وَحَشَرْنَاهُمْ فَلَمْ نُغَادِرْ مِنْهُمْ أَحَدًا ﴿٤٧﴾ وَعُرِضُوا عَلَىٰ رَبِّكَ صَفًّا لَّقَدْ جِئْتُمُونَا كَمَا خَلَقْنَاكُمْ أَوَّلَ مَرَّةٍ ۚ بَلْ زَعَمْتُمْ أَلَّن نَّجْعَلَ لَكُم مَّوْعِدًا ﴿٤٨﴾ وَوُضِعَ الْكِتَابُ فَتَرَى الْمُجْرِمِينَ مُشْفِقِينَ مِمَّا فِيهِ وَيَقُولُونَ يَا وَيْلَتَنَا مَالِ هَـٰذَا الْكِتَابِ لَا يُغَادِرُ صَغِيرَةً وَلَا كَبِيرَةً إِلَّا أَحْصَاهَا ۚ وَوَجَدُوا مَا عَمِلُوا حَاضِرًا ۗ وَلَا يَظْلِمُ رَبُّكَ أَحَدًا ﴿٤٩[Qur'an Al-Kahf 18:46-49]
Wealth and children are [but] adornment of the worldly life. But the enduring good deeds are better to your Lord for reward and better for [one's] hope. (46) And [warn of] the Day when We will remove the mountains and you will see the earth prominent, and We will gather them and not leave behind from them anyone. (47) And they will be presented before your Lord in rows, [and He will say], "You have certainly come to Us just as We created you the first time. But you claimed that We would never make for you an appointment." (48) And the record [of deeds] will be placed [open], and you will see the criminals fearful of that within it, and they will say, "Oh, woe to us! What is this book that leaves nothing small or great except that it has enumerated it?" And they will find what they did present [before them]. And your Lord does injustice to no one. (49)
No matter what a person attains of this world, it will be reduced to 3 or 5 pieces of cloth that will cover his/her body. So the idiots are the ones who spend their aspiration, energy, intellect, time, and lifespan to accumulate wealth of this world and to enjoy in this short time span.
The wealth and enjoyment of this world is nothing even if a person has delusions that it is great. No matter how many trendy and expensive clothing someone might have in his closet, even if each one has a value of $100 or $1000, the furthest extent that he would attain with it is a rag that cover his body. No matter how delicious, varied and expensive the food, when it enters the body, no matter what it is, its real value, if it is not connected to the religion, is manifested when it exits the body. All food, no matter how and what it is, its exit is the same. Some people take enjoyment of this world with the automobile they ride. If it is $500000, $150000, $30000 or $1000, its real value does not go beyond getting where they want to go. Most people aspire to own a big house. But no matter how big the house, the furthest extent that you would attain with it is the length and width of your body when you lie down to sleep. This is the reality of what we benefit from the worldly things that are cut off from the Hereafter, no matter how valuable they are.
Feeling pride and conceit with what we have -- garment on our body, car we drive, house we live in, or beautiful, accomplished or pious children; these are mere delusions that they are sources of our pleasure or enjoyment. In reality these are not pleasure nor enjoyment. The reality of this pleasure or enjoyment does not return to those things but the pleasure that a person takes from these things goes back in something in the person, not in the clothing, in the car, in the house, or in the children themselves. What it shows is that the person has taken, accepted and satisfied to live in him those attributes that are not pleasing to Allah. So a person who is satisfied with the attribute of arrogance, takes joy with luxurious garment in order to be arrogant or to feel proud because he is wearing it. He is satisfied with the attribute of loving to have a station among people and have people praising him and looking towards him. It makes him feel the pleasure by having the garment to be such and such value or such and such brand. But the pleasure is not in the garment. The pleasure or benefit that we receive in a garment is that it covers the body. The manifestation of delusion returns to the state of illnesses of the people. This would be even worse if people are seeking pleasure from things that Allah has forbidden--this indeed is the manifestation of their nafs (lower self) and the shaytan joining forces against them.
One of the knowers of Allah was asked as to why he turned away from the world. He said, "because of its nature of being rapidly fleeting, its many difficulties and great hardships engaging with it, and the lowliness of the partners that partake along with you. It is very little and not wealthy even if we imagined that it is wealthy. Because of its little wealth and its being rapidly perishing, it will very quickly leave me and I leave it. Many times it made me swallow or face difficulties and pains, and its calamities that are enumerable. Because of the lowliness of the fellow partakers in it, I did not enter a door of the doors of the dunya except that I found a non believer, a corrupt or someone who had fallen from the eye of Allah had beat me to that door and he was partaking along with me from the dunya. I ponder this meaning I despise the world and I become bored of it and I look down upon it and I felt disgust with it."
There is no enjoyment or pleasure from this enjoyments of the dunya that surround us except others partake in this thing of the dunya along with us and maybe they take more than we do and most of them are non believers and the corrupt.
If your soul is about to be seized, would you be thinking about this material world anymore? Will any of it remain with you as the earth starts pouring down onto your new home to separate you from this world? Decide now what you are going to do for the rest of your life.
The castles of this world and all the manifestations of material wealth and affairs of this world are just a mirage without reality. If we understand this, then this is an opportunity to express our weakness and inability to Allah, Mighty and Majestic.
This world is the path we travel along and not a place of abode. If you visit a place for 3 days and stay in a hotel apartment but you like certain fixtures and lighting, hardwood or marble floors, a jet tub in the bathroom, certain brand name mattress, and wallpapered walls, are you going to hire someone to change the fixtures, floors, mattress and the walls? No, you would say, "I would be foolish and being extravagant!" This world we are living in could be less than 3 days. The one who spend his concerns and thoughts in preparing his worldly affairs is like someone who spends his concerns in a hotel apartment that he would be spending for 3 days.
May Allah grant us tawfiq and aid us to draw near to Him. Ameen.
Please don't forget us in your night prayers. Jazakallahu khairan.
And Allah knows best.
Wassalaam
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