Page 57 - The Moral Values of the Qur'an

“people who buy the life of this world at the price of
the Hereafter”. For them Allah decrees: "Their
penalty shall not be lightened, nor shall they be
helped.” (Surat al-Baqara, 2:86)
Another verse states:

“Those who rest not their hope on their meeting with
Us, but are pleased and satisfied with the life of the
present,, and those who heed not Our Signs; their abode is
the Fire, because of the evil they earned.”(Surah Yunus,
10:7-8)
Those who forget that this world is only a
temporary place for trial and who are not careful of
Allah’s Signs, but are satisfied only with the worldly
play and amusements of this life, assume them as
their own, and even deify them will surely deserve
the grevious penalty. The Qur’an describes the status
of such people:

“Then, as for him who transgresses all bounds, and
prefers the life of this world, then surely the hell, that is the
abode.” (Surat an-Naziat, 79:37-39)

20 The Real Owner of All Possessions

Most often, it is the fight for possessions that leads
people to sorrow and pain. In fact, the entire life of

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