The Real Riches

Plenty of provision or abundance do not make a person rich and wealthy; real richness is the benevolence of the heart {Sahih Bhukari}

Allah Ta'ala asks us to ponder upon the fact that He has created all things in the dunya for us. It is important for us to realise that all that we see around us has been created for us but this does not mean that we need to use all that has been created for us. We are not supposed to 'serve' these things; they were created to 'serve' us. Allah Ta'ala tells us in short, not to become slaves of these objects. When we forget the bounties that Allah Ta'ala has bestowed upon us and we become engrossed in the dunya so much so that we become slaves of these objects and begin to like, love, protect and then eventually worship them. The immense love for money that society holds is an example of how begin to worship that which has been created for us.

Allah Ta’ala says that He has created man and jinn for his worship alone, why do we then become the servants on the dunya?

Allah Ta’ala has created everything on the dunya with a fixed purpose. Even those things that we do not have control over such as the sun and the moon are busy in fulfilling the command of Allah Ta’ala.

Commitments of this life are many and encompass everyday of our lives but our main commitment is to Allah Ta’ala. At any moment, the angle of death will come to visit us and all schedules and commitments will disappear forever. No Money, no Family nor friends will accompany us to the grave. It will be our amaal that will remain with us in this dunya and in the hereafter.

Allah Ta’ala causes us to live and causes us to die. When we sleep we undergo the minor death but when daylight breaks we once again come back to life. Allah Ta’ala has bestowed upon us every opportunity to conduct good deeds however we have become so accustomed to waking up from this minor death that we continue to delay these good deeds until later on. How many times have we heard our friends or family remark that they will delay a good deed for later on and then make the change in their life? This is shaytaan playing with us for shaytaan is very intelligent and knows that it is a race against time. When Allah Ta’ala commands for our soul to be taken there will be no ‘later on’ for us to carry out this good deed.

‘Kal naa aye, kabhi naa ayegi yeh kal’
If tomorrow does not come, Tomorrow will never come

Whatever we need to do, we need to do it today. By postponing what we are meant to do, we are postponing our commitment to Rabbul Alameen.

Allah Ta’ala has given us everything from respect, knowledge and abilities to carry out the most skilled of tasks; yet we forget what Rabbul Alameen has given us, and succumb to the tricks of the shaytaan. We put our deen as our final and least important priority. Why is it that we prefer the ‘living idols’ such as our boss or the company over our creator and sustainer?


Real Richness is the benevolence of the heart'