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Is your wealth your God..?

Is your wealth your God??

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There is a beautiful example in the Qur’aan by way of two companions. One had abundant worldly wealth. He was arrogant, purse-proud and puffed-up with his possessions, his income and his large family and followings. He looked down on his companion, trying to impress him with his importance and forgetting that what all he had was from God.


His thoughts were engrossed in his property; his hopes built on it and it had become an absorbing passion of his life. In his mind “better” means more wealth and more power; of the kind he was enjoying in this world.

Because of his great income and lavished resources, he would not listen to his companion, who boasted of nothing as his trust was in God. He pointed out to him that the correct way of enjoying all these gifts is to show gratitude to God.

The companion though being less affluent of the two was content and satisfied with whatever he had. He gave him the warning that this world is a fleeting show and God’s punishment is certain to those who are in-ordinate with the goods of this life.

But, he has taken his wealth as his God and thought in his self-complacency that all this would last forever.

It was not wealth that ruined him but the attitude of his mind. He was more unjust to his own soul than to anyone else. In his love of the material, he forgot or openly defied the spiritual; although in reality even what he had, rested on the hollow foundations and was doomed to perish and bring him down with it.

And it happened so; all his wealth was destroyed by a dreadful reckoning, he had nothing left; all that he had was gone. If he had only looked to God, instead of the ephemeral goods of this world, he; like his companion would also have been a happier and fortunate man in the end.

The only help and the only hope; he had already rejected – The One and Only True God. The best Rewards and best success comes from Him and all the other rewards and successes are illusory – vanity – uncertainty – the play of time.

Think again…

And put forward to them the example of two men: to one of them We provided two gardens of grape...Each of those gardens brought forth its produce, and failed not in the least therein,...he said to his companion,...“I am more than you in wealth and stronger in respect of men.” And He went into his garden (while in a state of pride and disbelief), unjust to himself...I think not that this will ever perish...And I think not the Hour (of Judgement) will ever come...His companion said to him, “Do you disbelieve in Him Who created you out of dust?...It may be that my Lord will give me something better than your garden, and that He will send on your garden thunderbolts (torment) from the sky, making it (but) slippery sand!”...So his fruits...which had (now) tumbled to pieces to its very foundation, and he could only say: “Would I had never ascribed partners to my Lord and Cherisher...The (only) protection comes from Allah, the True One, He is the Best to reward, and the Best to give success. (Al-Qur’aan Sura. 18 Ayat. 32-44)


क्या आपका धन आपका भगवान है ??

कुरान में दो साथियों के माध्यम से एक सुंदर उदाहरण है। एक के पास प्रचुर मात्रा में सांसारिक धन था। वह पर्स-गर्व और अपनी संपत्ति, आय और बड़े परिवार और अनुवर्ती के साथ अहंकार में था। उसने अपने साथी को अपने महत्व से प्रभावित करने की कोशिश की और भूल गया कि जो कुछ उसके पास है वह सब भगवान का दिया हुआ था।


उसके विचार उसकी संपत्ति में उलझ गए थे; उसकी आशाएं उस पर बनीं थीं और यह उसके जीवन का एक अवशोषित जुनून बन गया था। उसके दिमाग में "बेहतर" का मतलब अधिक धन और अधिक शक्ति था; जिसका वह इस दुनिया में आनंद ले रहा था।

उसकी महान आय और उत्पीड़ित संसाधनों के कारण, वह अपने साथी को नहीं सुन रहा था, जिसके पास कुछ खास माल दौलत नही थी पर उसका विश्वास भगवान पर था। उसने उसे बताया कि इन सभी उपहारों का आनंद लेने का सही तरीका भगवान के प्रति कृतज्ञता दिखाने में है।

उसका साथी हालांकि कम समृद्ध होने पर भी संतुष्ट और शांति में था। उसने उसे चेतावनी दी कि यह दुनिया एक क्षणिक शो है और भगवान की सजा उन लोगों के लिए निश्चित है जो इस जीवन के सामान के साथ समन्वयित हैं।

लेकिन, उसने अपने धन को अपने भगवान के रूप में ले लिया था और अपनी आत्म-प्रसन्नता में सोचता था कि यह सब हमेशा यूँही चलता रहेगा।

वह धन नहीं था जिसने उसे बर्बाद किया लेकिन उसके दिमाग का रवैया। वह और किसी की तुलना में अपनी आत्मा के लिए अधिक अन्यायपूर्ण था। अपनी सामग्री के प्यार में, वह आध्यात्मिक को भूल गया था और खुले तौर पर भगवान का विध्रोहि बन गया था; जबकि हकीकत में वह एक खोखली नींव पर विश्राम कर रहा था जोकि उसे नाश, बर्बाद और नीचे लाने के लिए काफी थी।

और ऐसा ही हुआ; उसकी सारी संपत्ति एक भयानक गणना से नष्ट हो गई, उसके पास कुछ भी नहीं बचा; वह सब जो वह अपना समझता था, चला गया। अगर उसने केवल इस दुनिया के क्षणिक सामानों की बजाय भगवान को देखा होता, तो वह भी अपने साथी की भांति अंत में एक खुश और भाग्यशाली व्यक्ति होता।

एकमात्र मदद और एकमात्र आशा; वह पहले ही खारिज कर चुका था - एक और केवल एक सच्चा भगवान। सबसे अच्छा पुरस्कार और सर्वोत्तम सफलताएं उससे ही मिलतीं है और अन्य सभी पुरस्कार और सफलताएं भ्रमित हैं - व्यर्थता - अनिश्चितता - समय का खेल।

फिर से विचार करें…

और उन्हें दो पुरुषों का उदाहरण दो: उनमें से एक को हमने अंगूर के दो बगीचे दिए ... प्रत्येक बगीचे ने अपनी उपज दिखाई, और उसमें कुछ विफल नहीं हुआ ... उसने अपने साथी से कहा, ... "मैं मनुष्यों के संबंध में, धन-दौलत में मजबूत और आप से अधिक हूं।" और वह अपने बगीचे में गया (गर्व और अविश्वास की स्थिति में), खुद पर अन्यायपूर्ण ... मुझे नहीं लगता कि यह कभी खत्म होगा ... और मुझे नहीं लगता कि समय (न्याय का दिन) कभी आएगा ... उसके साथी ने उससे कहा, "क्या तुम उसमें नास्तिकता करते हो जिसने तुम्हें मिट्टी से बनाया है? ... हो सकता है कि मेरा भगवान मुझे दे तुमहारे बगीचे से कुछ बेहतर, और वह आसमान से तुम्हारे बगीचे पर थंडरबॉल्ट (अज़ाब) भेज दे, जिससे वह रेत की तरह बह जाए! "... तो उसके सारे फल-बगीचों की नींव टुकड़े टुकड़े हो गई और वह केवल इतना कह सका: "काश मैंने कभी अपने भगवान और पालने वाले के साथ किसी को शरीक नही किया होता ... सलामती (केवल) अल्लाह की तरफ से है, जो एकमात्र सच्चाई है, वही सर्वश्रेष्ठ इनाम देने वाला है, और देने वाला है सर्वश्रेष्ठ सफलता। (अल-कुरान सूर 18 अयत 32-44)

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