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Dangerous Wolves
this behaviour to be that of the hypocrites, and without doubt, it can never be the behaviour of a Muslim.[1]
May Allah remove the love of wealth from our hearts and replace it with love of the Prophet صَلَّى الـلّٰـهُ عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم.
As mentioned in hadith, a man once came to the Prophetic presence and asked, “O Messenger of Allah! I do not like death. What has happened to me?” (As in, “My heart is inclined towards the world instead of the Hereafter. I do not like death, even though it leads to Paradise.”)
The Prophet صَلَّى الـلّٰـهُ عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم asked in reply, “Do you have wealth?” The man said yes, to which the Prophet صَلَّى الـلّٰـهُ عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم explained:
Send your wealth forward ˹by spending it in charity for the Hereafter˺, as a person’s heart is with his wealth. If he sends it forward, he desires to meet with it. Yet, if he leaves it behind, he wishes to remain behind with it.[2]
A man informed a pious person that so-and-so person was accumulating wealth. The pious person responded, “He is gathering wealth, but is he accumulating days to spend that wealth?”[3]
It is clear to everyone that no matter how much wealth you possess, it will not benefit you unless you spend it, and to do this you need time! In other words, you can only spend that money if you are alive. Unfortunately, we strive to attain wealth and increase our bank balances, but we are heedless about how long we have left in this world.
صَلُّوۡا عَلَى الۡحَبِيۡب صَلَّى اللّٰهُ عَلٰى مُحَمَّد
BOOK TOPIC
- Dangerous Wolves
- The excellences of sending salāt upon the Prophet صَلَّى الـلّٰـهُ عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم
- Two dangerous wolves
- Love of wealth and status leads to hypocrisy
- Harms of loving wealth
- 1. Evil greed
- The tale of ThaꜤlabah b. Abū Ḥāṭib
- An evil practice of hypocrites
- Send your wealth forward
- Accumulating Wealth
- 2. شُحّ
- The perils of شُحّ
- Loving fame
- Love of status is more dangerous than love of wealth
- What was the Hereafter made for?
- Undeserving praise
- Faults will be exposed
- Love of status destroys faith
- Pious Deed 23
- Pious Deeds Mobile Application
- Sunnahs and etiquettes of sneezing
