All this is the sustenance and bestowal from Allah Almighty, whereas in my matter you pleased your wife by disobeying me.’ Having heard this, the disobedient son picked up his blind mother and drove the blessings given by Allah Almighty i.e. camels, cows and goats by shouting happily and took them home. This scene made the greedy wife’s mouth water. She said to her husband, ‘I cannot be happy with you until you leave my mother at the same place where you left your mother so that she can also get the same blessings which your mother has received.’ The husband left the old mother of his wife at the same place where he left his mother and then returned. In the evening, beasts of prey surrounded her. The angel whom Allah Almighty sent to the old mother of the husband came to her. The angel asked her, ‘O old woman! What kinds of sounds are these which I am listening to from your surroundings?  She replied: ‘these are very bad sounds; by Allah Almighty! I am feeling absolute terror. These are the sounds of beasts of prey; they will eat me. The angel said, ‘Bad thing should happen!’ Having said this, the angel left. The beasts of prey attacked her and killed her by tearing her to pieces. In the morning, his greedy wife told him to go and see what happened to her mother. Her husband went to the jungle to know what happened to her mother. When he reached the jungle, he found the bones of his old mother-in-law. (After picking up the bones) he returned home. When he told the state of his greedy wife’s mother, she was extremely grieved. The husband picked up the bones of the old woman in a shawl and placed them in front of her daughter. The greedy woman was consumed by the grief at the death of her old mother and died. (Al-Muntazim, vol. 2, pp. 168)

صَلُّوۡا عَلَى الۡحَبِيۡب     صَلَّى اللّٰهُ تَعَالٰى عَلٰى مُحَمَّد

Dear Islamic sisters! Remember! Greed is a curse; greed makes a person blind; greed hides wisdom; Divine fear gets out of the heart due to the curse of greed; due to greed a person becomes enemy of her relatives; due to greed a person forgets the favours of people; greed excites us to commit backbiting, tale-telling, hurt someone’s feelings and blame others without any reason; greed raises mischiefs; greed makes a person forget the differences between good and bad; greed excites a person to become cruel; greed gets a person deprived of respecting elders; greed eliminates the