"The more people increase in comfort and luxury and the more they open up before the people [with the Dunya], the more evils will open up before them. It is comfort and luxury that destroys a person. Because if a person was to concern himself with comfort and luxury and providing enjoyment to his body, he will become negligent of providing enjoyment to his heart, and his greatest worry will become providing enjoyment to this body that is doomed to become worms and rotten.
This is the ordeal, and this is what has harmed people today. You can hardly find anyone except that they say: "What is our palace? What is our car? What is our furniture? What is our food?" Even those who study [Islamic] knowledge, some of them only study in order to gain rank or status to reach the blessings of the Dunya. As if man was not created for a significant purpose. The Dunya and its blessings are only a means, nothing more. We ask Allah to make us and you use it as a means.
Ibn Taimiyyah, may Allah have mercy upon him, said: "A person should use money as he uses a donkey to ride, and as he uses the toilet to relieve himself."
These are the ones who know money and its value. So do not make money your greatest worry, rather ride on money, for if you do not ride on it, it will ride on you, and your worry will become the Dunya.
For this, we say, that the more the Dunya opens up before the people, and they end up concerning themselves with it, they will lose as much of the Akhira as they have gained from the Dunya. The Prophet (SAW) said: "By Allah, I am not afraid of your poverty," meaning I am not afraid of poverty for you, for the Dunya will open up before you, "but I am afraid that you will lead a life of luxury as past nations did, whereupon you will compete with each other for it, as they competed for it, and it will destroy you as it destroyed them." [Bukhari and Muslim].
The Messenger (SAW) spoke the truth. This is what has destroyed the people today. What has destroyed the people today, is their competing with one another for the Dunya, and them being as if they were only created for it, and not it created for them. So they have preoccupied themselves with what was created for them over what they were created for. This is backwardness. We ask Allah for protection."
Explanation of Riyadh-us-Saliheen [Chapter 10: Hastening to do Good Deeds, Hadeeth #92].
Madeenah, Saudi Arabia
24th of October 2010
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asalaamu alaykum brother, my name is Khaled. I love your blog. you speak the words of the truth. i mean i live in england, and sometimes i feel like all people want in life is to be rich. i ask anyone what they want to do in life, they always answer me with "i want to be rich". this happens even in my own house. I'm sick of living in such a materialistic society, where everyone judges each other by what they wear, what they got or look like. evryone is filled up with pride. there all narrow minded and superficial and wants to be better then the other.
sometimes i feel like evryone is blinded by the truth and beauty of this world because of money, status and power.
I dont really care for the dunya in terms of chasing wealth. my dream is to study islam to its fullest and try my best to help others, especially the ones that are poor or under harsh political rule. i have always wanted to bring change to people's lives, no specific race or country. and i want to do this all for the sake of allah.
please brother i would like to ask you to make atleast one dua that i'll get accpeted into University of Medina. may allah have mercy on you......
asalamualikum... could you please the accepted list of students of ummul quraa for this new coming year, 2011-2012
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