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him peace) wealthy in this life,
“Did He not find you impover-
ished and enrich you?” (Surat ad-
Duha, 8). In addition, David (pbuh),
Solomon (pbuh), Dhu'l-Qarnayn (pbuh),
Abraham (pbuh) and his family all en-
joyed great wealth.
It is a glad tiding from Allah that
His faithful servants receive wonderful
blessings in this life both as a reward and as a
source of joy, and as an indication of His gen-
erosity and protection. Just as the unbelievers’
eternal pangs begin in this life, so do the believ-
ers begin to receive the eternal blessings
promised to them.
Another blessing on the sincere believers is
that their bad deeds are changed into good. As
we said earlier, a human being is a creature that
can easily make mistakes. A person may fall into
error, commit sins unknowingly, behave incor-
rectly and say bad things. But the important
thing is that he later repents of these errors and
corrects his behavior. To His servants with such
a sincere morality, our Lord gives glad tidings in
the Qur’an:
Those are people whose best deeds will be
accepted, and whose wrong deeds will be
overlooked. They are among the
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