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rank you have will vanish sooner or later and therefore have no

meaning; rather, that all the possessions you seem to have in fact do

not exist at all but are merely an illusion composed of images shown to

you by Allah in order to test you. There is a big difference between

these two statements. In the first case a person, for a temporary

period, may be deceived into believing that possessions really exist

and thus have the ambition to possess them. But in the second

statement, that is, that everything is illusionary, a deliberate attempt

to monopolize everything will not only humiliate that person but cause

unprecedented loss for him.

Although one might not want to acknowledge this fact right away

and would rather deceive himself by assuming everything he owns

truly exists, he will finally die, and when he is recreated in the

Hereafter, everything will become clear. On that day his vision will be

sharp, and he will see everything clearly. If he had spent his life

chasing after imaginary benefits, he will wish he had never lived and

say:

I wish it [i.e., my death] had been the decisive one. My

wealth has not availed me. Gone from me is my

authority. 108

107 Surah Hud, 11:16.
108 Surah al-Haqqa, 69:27-29.

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