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If one ponders deeply on all that is said here, one will soon realise this amazing, extraordi-
nary situation by oneself: that all the events in the world are but mere imagination…
forms of prosperity that they either possess or strive to possess. They con-
centrate only on this world while forgetting the hereafter. They are
deceived by the "fair and alluring" face of the life of this world, and fail to
keep up prayer, give charity to the poor, and perform worship that will
make them prosper in the hereafter. They say instead, "I have things to do",
"I have ideals", "I have responsibilities", "I do not have enough time", "I
have things to complete" and "I will do it in the future". They consume
their lives trying to prosper only in this world. In the verse, "They know
but the outer (things) in the life of this world: but of the End of
things they are heedless" (Surat ar-Rum: 7), this misconception is
described.
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