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102:1 - The mutual rivalry for piling up (the good things of this world) diverts you (from the more
serious things) 6257
6257 Acquisitiveness, that is, the passion for seeking an increase in wealth, position, the number of adherents or followers
or supporters, mass production and mass organisation, may affect an individual as such, or it may affect whole
societies or nations. Other people's example or rivalry in such things may aggravate the situation. Up to a certain point
it may be good and necessary. But when it becomes inordinate and monopolises attention, it leaves no time for higher
things in life, and a clear warning is here sounded from a moral point of view. Man may be engrossed in these things
till death approaches, and he looks back on a wasted life, as far as the higher things are concerned. (102.1)
41:26 - The Unbelievers say: "Listen not to this Qur'an but talk at random in the midst of its
(reading) that ye may gain the upper hand!" 4496
4496 A favourite trick of those who wish to dishonour Revelation is, not only not to listen to it themselves, but to talk loudly
and insolently when it is being read, so that even the true listeners may not be able to perform their devotions. They
think that they are drowning the voice of Allah: in fact they are piling up misery for themselves in the future. For
Allah's voice can never be silenced. (41.26)
104:1 Woe to every (kind of) scandal-monger and backbiter 6266
6266 Three vices are here condemned in the strongest terms: (1) scandal-mongering, talking or suggesting evil of men or
women by word or innuendo, or behaviour, or mimicry, or sarcasm, or insult; (2) detracting from their character behind
their backs, even if the things suggested are true, where the motive is evil; (3) piling up wealth, not for use and
service to those who need it, but in miserly hoards, as if such hoards can prolong the miser's life or give him
immortality: miserliness is itself a kind of scandal. (104.1)
Sahih Al-Bukhari Hadith
Hadith 8.446 Narrated by
Sahl bin Sad
I heard Ibn Az-Zubair who was on the pulpit at Mecca, delivering a sermon, saying, "O men! The Prophet used to say, "If the
son of Adam were given a valley full of gold, he would love to have a second one; and if he were given the second one, he
would love to have a third, for nothing fills the belly of Adam's son except dust. And Allah forgives he who repents to Him."
Ubai said, "We considered this as a saying from the Qur'an till the Sura (beginning with) 'The mutual rivalry for piling up of
worldly things diverts you...' - (102.1) was revealed."
Al-Muwatta Hadith
Hadith 31.56
Hoarding and Raising Prices by Stock-Piling.
Yahya related to me from Malik that he had heard that Umar ibn al-Khattab said, "There is no hoarding in our market, and
men who have excess gold in their hands should not buy up one of Allah's provisions which he has sent to our courtyard and
then hoard it up against us. Someone who brings imported goods through great fatigue to himself in the summer and winter,
that person is the guest of Umar. Let him sell what Allah wills and keep what Allah wills."
PLAGUE:
2:59 - But the transgressors changed the word from that which had been given them; so We sent
on the transgressors a plague from heaven for that they infringed (our command) repeatedly.
7:133 - So We sent (plagues) on them wholesale death Locusts Lice Frogs and Blood: signs openly
Self-explained; but they were steeped in arrogance a people given to sin. 10901091
1090 Tufan = a widespread calamity, causing wholesale death and destruction. It may be a flood, or a typhoon, or an
epidemic, among men or cattle. Perhaps the last is meant, if we may interpret by the Old Testament story. See also
Exod. ix. 3, 9, 15; xii. 29. (7.133)
1091 In xvii. 101, the reference is to nine Clear Signs. These are: (1) the Rod (vii. 107), (2) the Radiant Hand (vii. 108), (3)
the years of drought or shortage of water (vii, 130), (4) short crops (vii. 130), and the five mentioned in this verse, viz.,
(5) epidemics among men and beasts, (6) locusts, (7) lice, (8) frogs, and (9) the water turning to blood. (7.133)
7:134 - Every time the penalty fell on them they said: "O Moses! on our behalf call on thy Lord in
virtue of his promise to thee: if thou wilt remove the penalty from us we shall truly believe in
thee and we shall send away the children of Israel with thee." 1092
1092 The demand of Moses was two-fold: (1) come to Allah and cease from oppression, and (2) let me take Israel out of
Egypt. At first it was laughed at and rejected with scorn. When the Plagues came for punishment, each time the
Egyptians suffered, they promised amendment and begged Moses to intercede and cause the plague to cease. But
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