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118 COMMUNICATION AND ARGUMENT IN THE QUR’AN
uals. Of course, the members of this ruling circle fear that
their established order will be destroyed and that their free-
dom to flout justice and right will be curtailed. Thus, it is
natural for them to oppose any change. The wealth that
Allah gave them from His abundance made them perverse
and led them to associate Allah with His creatures.
No matter how much they claim to believe in Allah, they
are in truth faithless people who desire only the wealth of
this world. Allah may give them what they desire here, but
their situation will be quite different in the Hereafter,
because they did not practice religion, ignored the calls,
and thus persisted in their unbelief. Thus they should fear
their reward: the eternal pangs of Hell. Believers also
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But believers do not desire wealth only to satisfy their
lower selves or to live a life of decadent luxury. Like
Sulayman (as), they desire riches so that they may be close
to Allah and communicate His religion effectively.
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for his sincerity, Allah made him the ruler of the land.
In the past paragraph, we mentioned the unbeliever
who argued with Ibrahim (as). He was unaware of his fate
and did not understand that Allah encompasses all things
and that no one can do anything except by His will. He pre-
sumed to tell Ibrahim (as): “I also give life and cause to
