Page 111 - The Religion Of The Ignorant

Harun Yahya - Adnan Oktar

money. Then come education, status, owning a car and having a
summer house; that is, the list is endless. When people look for
these, they cannot make use of the passion Allah bestows on them.
Then that house does not make any good to them. It looks like an
empty space. It has no effect on them. That car becomes like a mass
of tin, a hunk of metal. These are the things that acquire their values
through love of Allah, the passion felt for Allah. Consequently, our
Prophet (saas) says that those who marry because of possessions
will be deprived of possessions, and those who marry for beauty
will be deprived of beauty. One day a person becomes sick and she
loses her beauty all of a sudden. He may feel disgust; a person may
be disgusted by something he has never thought of before. For in-
stance, he sees the other person in a weak state, feels disgusted and
can never be freed from that feeling.
… Contrary to what one expects, money just causes depression
for such people because they need to take more measures in order to
keep their money. For instance, they feel pain because they cannot
cash their checks. They pay their money into the bank but this time
they worry about whether it will go bust. They put it under their pil-
low, but that is no good, either. He puts it in a jar but then worries
about the jar being found by others. They feel terrible pain and un-
ease. A person can find ease only through the love of Allah; only by
putting his trust in Allah can he feel at ease. In other words, pain
and unease increase as the amount of money one has rises. We also
see this in the outside world. There are a lot of cases. I do not want to
go into too many examples here but people encounter it a lot.

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