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HARUN YAHYA (ADNAN OKTAR)

wealth and children: like the plant-growth after rain
which delights the cultivators,but then it withers and
you see it turning yellow, and then it becomes broken
stubble. In the hereafter there is terrible punishment
but also forgiveness from Allah and His good pleasure.
The life of the world is nothing but the enjoyment of
delusion. (Surat al-Hadid: 20)

While the believer also enjoys blessings of this world,
unlike the unbeliever, he does not consider them the purpose
of his life. He may desire to possess them, but only for the
purpose of giving thanks to Allah, and to use them to earn
Allah's consent. He does not pursue out of greed. Because, he

knows that that which is of this world is short-lived, just as is
his own life. He knows that, after his death, such things will
be of no benefit to him. Furthermore, he knows that if he
pursues only worldly things, at the expense of nobler goals,
for them he sacrifices his hereafter. In a verse of the Qur'an,
this important truth is related as follows:
To mankind the love of worldly appetites is painted in
glowing colors: women and children, and heaped-up
mounds of gold and silver, and horses with fine
markings, and livestock and fertile farmland. All that is
merely the enjoyment of the life of the world. The best
homecoming is in the Presence of Allah. (Surah Al
'Imran: 14)

The allure of the things of this world is an essential factor
in the test placed upon man in this world. The satan resorts
relentlessly to allurements in his attempts to deceive man.

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