by the moral values of the Qur'an in fact great heedlessness that
believers scrupulously avoid?
How do believers use their wealth and possessions on Allah's path?
What secret does our Lord reveal in the Qur'an for believers who spend
all their wealth and assets on Allah's path?
People who do not live by the moral values of the Qur'an suffer
various pains; these people even make the desire to "possess wealth
and property" their greatest aim in life. Allah describes such people
as "trying to outdo one another in wealth" in the Qur'an (Surat
al-Hadid, 20). But this desire is literally a delusion because it is
AllahWho owns everything in the world. People deceive themselves when
they imagine they "own possessions." They did not personally create
the things they imagine they possess, and they have no power
whatsoever to maintain them. Neither can they prevent them ceasing to
exist. Moreover,there is no question of them "owning" anything;
because they themselves are under the control of Allah, "the king of
Mankind" (Surat an-Nas, 2). In the Qur'an it is revealed that all
objects and entities belong to Allah, our Creator:
"Everything in the heavens and everything on the earth and everything
in between them and everything under the ground belongs to Him."
(Surah Ta Ha, 6)
Believers, who have faith in Allah and attach no undue importance to
the transitory baubles of this world, who know that all things come
from Allah alone and who therefore spend what they have on His path,
may hope for Almighty Allah's mercy and paradise. Since they prefer
the life of the hereafter, which Allah sayswill last for all eternity,
over the life of this world, it is actually they who are the wealthy
ones.
Believers Fervently Spend Their Assets on Allah's Path
As revealed in the verse "[There are men who are] not distracted by
trade or commerce from the remembrance of Allah and the establishment
of prayer and the payment of alms; fearing a day when all hearts and
eyeswill be in turmoil –" (Surat an-Nur, 37) , one ofthe things that
people today most give themselves over to is making money and
possessing goods and property. Yet in that verse,Allah reveals that
believersmust be filled with passion for Him alone, andthat their
hearts can only be contented by repeatingHis name, and that they fear
losing His approval bybehaving in any other way. Believers have a
strong desire to give their possessions to others in need, for the
purpose of gaining the approval of Allah, to whom they are
sopassionately devoted. Another verse reveals howall wealth belongs to
Allahalone:
"Spend in the Way of Allah. Do not cast yourselves into destruction.
And do good: Allah loves good-doers." (Surat al-Baqara, 195)
Someone who thinks by the light of his own criteria thinks that he
will become wealthier by not sharing his possessions with anyone and
hiding and hoarding them, and that this is the only way he can
guarantee his own future. He believes that anything he gives away –
even if he has no need of it – will make him poorer, and that anything
he losesnow will endanger his future comfort. But things are not at
all as he imagines. Allah reveals in the Qur'an, as a miracle, that a
person who spends on His path and who givesalms will acquire greater
possessions and abundance.
But someone who analyzes events only by external criteria may easily
be deceived by this deception of satan's. For example, he may be
aboutto give his shirt to someone in need when satan whispers that if
he does so, he will have to gowithout it, that he may need it one day,
and that it would be better to hold onto it. And indeed, it would
appear on the surface that he would be deprived of a shirt, but if he
forgets that Allah bestows many times over on whom He wishes, on who
has much purity, thenhe has fallen into heedlessness. Indeed, Allah
tells us in one verse that:
"The metaphor of those who spend their wealth in the Way of Allah is
that of a grain which produces seven ears; in every ear there are a
hundred grains." (Surat al-Baqara, 261)
The example in the verse is a secret revealed by Almighty Allah to
believersin the Qur'an. For that reason, believers spend solely in
order to win Allah's good pleasure, mercy, paradise and abundance. So
long as they expend their goods and possessions on Allah's path and
are careful aboutwhat is lawful and unlawful, Almighty Allah will
increase their wealth, smooth their way and create many more
opportunities for them to spend on His path.
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