Page 235 - Learning from the Qur'an

THEY LIKE TO SHOW OFF
You who believe! Do not nullify your charity by demands for
gratitude or insulting words, like him who spends his wealth,
showing off to people and not believing in Allah and the Last Day.
His likeness is that of a smooth rock coated with soil, which, when
heavy rain falls on it, is left stripped bare. They have no power
over anything they have earned. Allah does not guide people who
do not believe. (Qur'an, 2:264)
Do not be like those who left their homes in arrogance, showing
off to people and barring them from the way of Allah – Allah
encompasses what they do. (Qur'an, 8:47)

THEY ARE BOASTFUL
OF THEIR WEALTH AND POWER
'Ad were arrogant in the land, without any right, saying, 'Who
has greater strength than us?' Did they not see that Allah, Who
created them, had greater strength than them? But they renounced
Our Signs. (Qur'an, 41:15)
He was a man of wealth and property and he said to his
companion, debating with him, 'I have more wealth than you and
more people under me.' (Qur'an, 18:34)
Pharaoh called to his people, saying, 'My people, does the kingdom
of Egypt not belong to me? Do not all these rivers flow under my
control? Do you not then see? Am I not better than this man who
is contemptible and can scarcely make anything clear? Why have
gold bracelets not been put upon his arms and why is there not a
train of angels accompanying him?' (Qur'an, 43:51-53)

THEY TRUST IN THEIR WEALTH
AND THEIR BEING IN THE MAJORITY
Simply because he possesses wealth and sons. When Our Signs
are recited to him, he says, 'Just myths of previous peoples!'
(Qur'an, 68:14-15)

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