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it is a mistake for anyone to disregard Allah and the
Hereafter. It is also commendable to be knowledgeable and
have a good education, however it’s not the goal of life to
become an intellectual hoping to please others, while disre-
garding Allah and the life to come. In the Qur’an, Allah tells
us that this is not the purpose of His creation:

We did not create heaven and Earth and everything in
between them as a game. If We had desired to have some
amusement, We would have derived it from Our
Presence, but We did not do that. (Surat al-Anbiya’: 16-17)
The world is not a place of games and entertainment, but
an arena in which to serve Allah and work toward the
Hereafter. The ideals of those who cannot grasp this truth are
so trivial and fleeting that, even if they attained all their
worldly goals, they would realize their loss when the angels
of death came for them. Imagine a person who has become an
expert in his field and become a world-famous professor. He
has children and grandchildren; he has bequeathed them a
good standard of living. But he has disregarded Allah and
not lived the kind of moral life that pleases Him. Such a per-
son may have worked hard for years, but he has nothing that
counts toward the world to come, where he will live forever.
As pointed out in the Qur’an, such a person has left
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perhaps 70 years that he has lived are of no value. The
Prophet (saas) describes the folly of such people:
“He is the man of wisdom and of consciousness who makes his