Page 87 - In The Name Of Allah, The All-Merciful And Most Merciful

Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)

of Rising. (Surah Al ‘Imran, 180)
Believers have a totally different understanding of wealth
and possessions. First of all, it is not so important to have pos-
sessions, because believers devote themselves to earning His
good pleasure by using what they have in His path, instead
of amassing possessions for themselves, as the unbelievers

do. Believers never pursue worldly gain, but always direct
themselves toward whatever will earn them eternal life and
an exalted status in Allah’s sight. Allah announces these good
tidings to them in the Qur’an:

Allah has bought from the believers their selves and their
wealth in return for the Garden. They fight in His Way,
kill and are killed. It is a promise binding on Him in the
Torah, the Gospel, and the Qur’an. And who is truer to
his [or her] contract than Allah? Rejoice, then, in the bar-
gain you have made. That is the great victory. (Surat at-
Tawba, 111)
All prophets, messengers, and sincere believers who
were aware of this truth acted with the knowledge that their
possessions actually belonged to Allah, and so used them to

earn His good pleasure. For example, the Qur’an says that be-
lievers who possess a moral character and mercy will give
“…; those who honor their contracts when they make them,
and are steadfast in poverty and illness and in battle” (Surat
al-Baqara, 177). And, unlike some people, believers spend of
their wealth not for show, but “spend their wealth, desiring
the pleasure of Allah and strengthen their souls” (Surat al-

Baqara, 265). Therefore, if they lose some of their possessions,

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