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THIS LIFE IS NOT OUR REAL LIFE

any people think that they can make a perfect life for
M M themselves in this world. They think that if they can ac-
quire enough material possessions, they will experience total
personal satisfaction and happiness. According to the most
widespread opinion, a person's life will be perfect after he or
she has attained material wealth, gotten married with this in-
tention in mind, and is respected by society because of his or
her influential and well-established career.
The Qur'an does not support this view, for it states that
this present life will never be perfect and without problems, as
it is designed like that.
The root of dunya (world) has a very important meaning
in this sense: It is a derivative of the adjective "daniy": low, un-
refined, basic and worthless. "World" means a space charac-
terized by these traits. So, the Qur'an often emphasizes this
worldly life's worthlessness and unimportance. It refers to