HOW TO GAIN INNER PEACE? 4

OUR WANTS ARE UNLIMITED

One can hardly find a person in this world who would say that all his wants and wishes have been fulfilled. This is because wants are unlimited. Every time a person’s present wishes get fulfilled, he wants something else, and something more. For example, an unemployed person desperately wants a job. But once he gets a job he starts noticing that other people are earning more than him, so he wants a higher paying job. Once he gets that higher paying job he notices that there are still some people who are earning more than him so he wants an even higher paying job. This cycle is never ending because no matter how much a person earns there is always going to be someone who may be earning more than him. A person can spend his entire life running this race but can never win it.

The only people who do fulfil all their wishes in this world are the ones who understand the reality of this world; the Prophets and their followers, the people who have understood that this world is a temporary abode, we are here on borrowed time which can come to an end any moment, and all we need to earn is to just enough to sustain us till that last moment. There is no sense in trying to earn more than we need to sustain ourselves and to gather too much wealth or worldly comforts as we won’t be able to take any of this to the next world once our time here is up. It doesn’t mean that we shouldn’t enjoy worldly comforts if Allah Ta’alah blesses us with them out of His kindness, what it means is that they should not become the sole purpose and focus of our entire existence.