The Importance of Not Being Too Concerned With The Matters of The Worldly Life

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Almighty Allah orders His faithful servants to remember HIM frequently and to refrain from being distracted from HIS remembrance by indulging in their properties and children excessively. 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 Almighty Allah. “Remembrance of Almighty Allah” includes every act of service and goodness, every kind thought and kind deed, for this is the service and sacrifice which Almighty Allah requires of us.

If we fail in this, the loss is our own, not anyone else’s: for it stunts our own spiritual growth. Almighty Allah informs us that if we engage in this life, in its delights and attributes, which busied us from the obedience and remembrance of HIM, for which we were created, will be among the losers. We will lose ourselves and our families on the Day of Resurrection.

“O you who have believed, let not your wealth and your children divert you from remembrance of Allah . And whoever does that - then those are the losers”.Chapter 63 Verse 9]

Extracted from the Interpretation of:
Ibn Kathir and Yousif A. Ali

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Walaikumussalam,

jazakAllah khair for reminder, may ALLAH grant us good companions and may He always keep us on straight path Ameen.

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Ameen

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:jazak:

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Imam Ali AS says:

"O people! Look at the world like those who abstain from it, and turn away from it. By Allah, it would shortly turn out its inhabitants and cause grief to the happy and the safe. That which turns and goes away from it never returns and that which is likely to come about is not known or anticipated. Its joy is mingled with grief. Herein men's firmness inclines towards weakness and languidness. The majority of what pleases you here should not mislead you because that which would help you would be little.

Allah may shower His mercy on him who ponders and takes lesson thereby, and when he takes lesson he achieves enlightenment. Whatever is present in this world would shortly not exist, while whatever is to exist in the next world is already in existence. Every countable thing would pass away. Every anticipation should be taken to be coming up and every thing that is to come up should be taken as just near.

Learned is he who knows his worth. It is enough for a man to remain ignorant if he knows not his worth. Certainly, the most hated man with Allah is he whom Allah has left for his own self. He goes astray from the right path, and moves without a guide. If he is called to the plantation of this world he is active, but if he is called to the plantation of the next world he is slow. As though what he is active for is obligatory upon him whereas in whatever he is slow was not required of him."

As recorded by:

(1) Al-Kulayni, Rawdah, 139;

(2) al-Harrani, Tuhaf, 143;

(3) al-Kulayni, Usul al-Kafi, II, 225;

(4) Ibn Qutaybah, `Uyun, II, 352;

(5) al-Zamakhshari, Rabi`, I, 219;

(6) Ibn Talhah, Matalib, I, 202;

(7) al-Qadi al-Quda`i, Dustur, 48;

(8) al-Khuza`i, al-Fitan, see (9)

(9) Ibn Tawus, al-Malahim, 27;

(10) Ibn al-'Athir, al-Nihayah, V, 131.

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:lkk: :jazak: