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3:14 -Fair in the eyes of men is the love of things they covet: women and sons; heaped-up hoards
of gold and silver; horses branded (for blood and excellence); and (wealth of) cattle and welltilled
land. Such are the possessions of this world's life; but in nearness to Allah is the best of
the goals (to return to). 354
354 The pleasures of this world are first enumerated: women for love; sons for strength and pride; hoarded riches, which
procure all luxuries; the best and finest pedigree horses; cattle, the measure of wealth in the ancient world, as well as
the means and symbols of good farming in the modern world; and broad acres of well-tilled land. By analogy, we may
include, for our mechanized age, machines of all kinds,-tractors, motor- cars, aeroplanes, the best internal-combustion
engines, etc., etc. In "heaped-up hoards of gold and silver," the Arabic word translated hoards is quanatir plural of
quintar, which literally means a Talent of 1.200 ounces of gold. (3.14)
34:34 Never did We send a Warner to a population but the wealthy ones among them said: "We
believe not in the (message) with which ye have been sent." 3841
3841 Whenever the Message of Allah comes, the vested interests range themselves against it. Worldly power has made
them arrogant; worldly pleasures have deadened their sensibility to Truth. They reject the Message because it attacks
their false position. (34.34)
10:25 - But Allah doth call to the Home of Peace: He doth guide whom He pleaseth to a way that is
straight. 1413
1413 In contrast with the ephemeral and uncertain pleasures of this material life, there is a higher life to which Allah is
always calling. It is called the Home of Peace. For there is no fear, nor disappointment nor sorrow there. And all are
called, and those will be chosen who have sought, not material advantages, but the Good Pleasure of Allah. Salam,
Peace, is from the same root as Islam, the Religion of Unity and Harmony. (10.25)
11:116 - Why were there not among the generations before you persons possessed of balanced
good sense prohibiting (men) from mischief in the earth except a few among them whom We
saved (from harm)? But the wrongdoers pursued the enjoyment of the good things of life
which were given them and persisted in sin. 16191620
1619 Baqiyat: some virtue or faculty that stands assault and is lasting; balanced good sense that stands firm to virtue and is
not dazzled by the lusts and pleasures of this world, and is not deterred by fear from boldly condemning wrong if it
was fashionable or customary. It is leaders possessed of such character that can save a nation from disaster or
perdition. The scarcity of such leaders-and the rejection of the few who stood out- brought ruin among the nations
whose example has already been set out to us as a warning. In xi. 86 the word has a more literal meaning. (11.116)
1620 The exceptional men of firm virtue would have been destroyed by the wicked to whom they were an offence, had they
not been saved by the grace and mercy of Allah. Or perhaps, but for such grace, they might themselves have
succumbed to the evil around them, or been overwhelmed in the general calamity. (11.116)
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)
102:2 - Until ye visit the graves. 6258
6258 That is, until the time comes when you must lie down in the graves and leave and pomp and circumstance of an
empty life. The true Reality will then appear before you. Why not try to strive for a little understanding of that Reality in
this very life? (102.2)
93:11 -But the Bounty of thy Lord Rehearse and proclaim! 6187
6187 Besides the petitioners, who ask for help, there is the case of those who do not ask but are nevertheless poor-poor
but contented in worldly goods, or poor in knowledge or resources and not even knowing that they are poor. If you
are bountifully endowed by Allah, your duty is to make that Bounty spread far and wide. Proclaim it and share
it, as the holy Prophet always did. We all receive Allah's grace and guidance in some degree or other. We all owe it
as a duty to our fellow-men to be kind and helpful to those less endowed in any respect than ourselves. (93.11)
Sahih Al-Bukhari Hadith
Hadith 4.95 Narrated by
Abu Said Al Khud
Allah's Apostle ascended the pulpit and said, "Nothing worries me as to what will happen to you after me, except the
temptation of worldly blessings which will be conferred on you." Then he mentioned the worldly pleasures. He started with the
one (i.e. the blessings) and took up the other (i.e. the pleasures). A man got up saying, "O Allah's Apostle! Can the good
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