In the Name of Allah, the Gracious, the Merciful
92. Lan tanaloo
albirra hatta tunfiqoo mimma tuhibboona wama
tunfiqoo min shay-in fa-inna Allaha bihi AAaleemun
3:92. Never
shall you attain to righteousness unless you spend from what you love. And
Allah is indeed aware of anything you spend.105 to 107
105. Man loves wealth. He thinks it could bring him
comfort in this worldly life. His thoughts do not go beyond, to the life in the
Hereafter. But Islam teaches him that this worldly life is temporary and only a
test; it is the everlasting life in the Hereafter that really matters. And the
Verse 92 here tells us that unless we overcome our love of wealth by spending
from it, we cannot be righteous enough to deserve comfortable lives in the
Hereafter.
106. We can of course incur necessary expenses,
from our own wealth, on our own selves. But we cannot waste the wealth on
our own selves beyond our genuine needs. Allah would be aware of it, when
we do it. And Verse
2:215 tells us on whose
genuine needs to spend our wealth that is more than our own individual needs.
107. Man loves other things also, besides wealth. He
loves his spouse and children, for example. Verse 92 here could be extended in
its implications to cover these other objects of love too. Our love for our own
children, for instance, should not come in our way of standing firmly for
justice in any matter involving them.
Friday, the 15th
of November 2019.
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