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Islam and Buddhism

Wealth and sons are the embellishment of the life of this world.
But, in your Lord's sight, right actions that are lasting bring a bet-
ter reward and are a better basis for hope. (Qur'an, 18: 46)

People must be wary of growing attached to transient and de-
ceptive baubles in this life, because life in this world is very short.
Wealth, beauty and worldly possessions are worthless in the afterlife.
The buried body will decay; time will destroy material possessions.
Everyone will be brought into the presence of God to give an account.

Moreover, if you ask a thirty-year-old what he has experienced up to
this point, he'll say that his life has passed by very quickly. He may
live another thirty or fifty years in the same way, before his life will
come to an end.
In several verses, God draws our attention to the fact
that the span of life in this world is short; He informs us
that in the afterlife, people will openly confess this:
On the day We gather them together—when it will seem if

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