REMOVE THE
LOVE OF DUNYA (MATERIAL POSSESSIONS) FROM YOUR HEART
In this
Hadith, the Holy Prophet ﷺ
has advised the best treatment for removing the love of Dunya from our hearts
and gaining inner peace and tranquility in this world. It requires that while
one does consume and sue material possessions, he should not fall in love with
these. A human being needs to have material possessions because he cannot
survive in this world without them. How would a person live if he doesn’t have
food to eat, clothes to wear, or a roof over his head? He does require all of
these to fulfill his needs, but these material possessions should not become
his ultimate goal and his sole purpose of existence, and he should not be
spending every waking moment worrying about how to increase his material wealth.
This will only happen if a person develops contentment (قناعت).
When a person becomes content then he does possess material wealth but he is
not in love with them. The easy way to tell whether a person is in love with
material wealth is that he always feels that what he has is not enough for him,
he always wants to earn more than he did the previous day, his focus is not on
whether what he has is enough to satisfy his needs, he just has an insatiable
appetite for making more and more money. From the moment he wakes up, till the
moment he falls asleep, all he is preoccupied with is how to earn more. This
love for material possessions then leads to greed (حرص).
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