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grass; but such things give no real nourishment; they soon wither, become dry, and crumble to pieces, like the worldly
pleasures and pomps, boasting and tumults, possessions and friends. (57.20)
5304 Kuffar is here used in the unusual sense of 'tillers or husbandmen', because they sow the seed and cover it up with
soil. But the ordinary meaning, 'Rejecters of Truth', is not absent. The allegory refers to such men. (57.20)
5305 nets set by Satan to deceive man. The only thing real and lasting is the Good Life lived in the Light of Allah. (57.20)
58:17 - Of no profit whatever to them against Allah will be their riches nor their sons: They will be
Companions of the Fire to dwell therein (for aye)! 5358
5358 They may arrogantly boast of riches of alliances and followers in man-power. But what are such worldly advantages
before the Throne of the Disposer of all events? They must come to utter misery. (58.17)
63:9 - O ye who believe! let not your riches or your children divert you from the remembrance of
Allah. If any act thus the loss is their own. 5476
5476 Riches and human resources of all kinds are but fleeting sources of enjoyment. They should not turn away the good
man from his devotion to Allah. "Remembrance of Allah" includes every act of service and goodness, every kind
thought and kind deed, for this is the service and sacrifice which Allah requires of us. If we fail in this, the loss is our
own, not any one else's: for it stunts our own spiritual growth. (63.9)
64:15 - Your riches and your children may be but a trial: but in the Presence of Allah is the highest
Reward. 5496
5495 For the different words for "forgiveness", see n. 110 to ii. 109. (64.14)
Sahih Al-Bukhari Hadith
Hadith 8.453 Narrated by
Abu Huraira
The Prophet said, "Riches does not mean, having a great amount of property, but riches is self-contentment."
Al-Tirmidhi Hadith
Hadith 5174 Narrated by
Amr ibn Maymun al-Awdi
Allah's Messenger (peace be upon him) said to a man in the course of an exhortation, "Grasp five things before five others:
your youth before your decrepitude, your health before your illness, your riches before your poverty, your leisure before your
work, and your life before your death."
Tirmidhi transmitted it in mursal form.
RIDICULE:
4:140 - Already has He sent you word in the Book that when ye hear the signs of Allah held in
defiance and ridicule ye are not to sit with them unless they turn to a different theme: if ye did
ye would be like them. For Allah will collect the Hypocrites and those who defy faith all in hell.
649
649 Cf. vi. 68, an earlier and Makkan verse. Where we see or hear Truth held in light esteem, we ought to make our
protest and withdraw from such company, not out of arrogance, as if we thought ourselves superior to other people,
but out of real humility, lest our own nature be corrupted in such society. But it is possible that our protest or our
sincere remonstrance may change the theme of discourse. In that case we have done good to those who were
inclined to hold Truth in light esteem, for we have saved them for ridiculing Truth. (4.140)
9:79 - Those who slander such of the believers as give themselves freely to (deeds of) charity as
well as such as can find nothing to give except the fruits of their labor and throw ridicule on
them Allah will throw back their ridicule on them: and they shall have a grievous penalty. 1333
1333 When financial help is necessary for the Cause, every Muslim contributes what he can. Those who can afford large
sums are proud to bring them in of their own free-will, and those who are very poor contribute their mite or their labour.
Both kinds of gifts are equally precious because of the faith and good-will behind them, and only cynics will laugh at
the scantiness of the one or the lavishness of the other. Sometimes they not only laugh, but attribute wrong motives to
the givers. Such conduct is here reprimanded. (9.79)
11:38 - Forthwith he starts constructing the Ark: every time that the Chiefs of his People passed by
him they threw ridicule on him. They threw ridicule on him. He said: "If ye ridicule us now we
(in our turn) can look down on you with ridicule likewise! 15311532
1531 The ridicule of the sinners, from their own point of view, was natural. Here was a Prophet turned carpenter! Here was
a plain in the higher reaches of the Mesopotamian basin, drained by the majestic Tigris, over 800 to 900 miles from
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