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Here you are then: people who are called upon to
spend in the Way of Allah and then some of you are
tight-fisted! But whoever is tight-fisted is only tight-
fisted to himself. Allah is Rich and you are poor. If
you turn away, He will replace you with a people

other than yourselves and they will not be like you.
(Surah Muhammad: 38)

31. Will wealth be of any use in the Hereafter?

Neither being rich nor possessing power in this world
will be of any use in the Hereafter. No matter how much
money or wealth one has in the world, this wealth will not
be of any use when one is dead and buried in the earth. If he
is a disbeliever, he will be treated in the same way as all
other unbelievers and will be flung into the punishment of
Hell. These people who used to get special treatment due to
their wealth will be humiliated in the Hereafter with an in-
comparable humiliation. This is because they were too
proud because of their worldly wealth and rejected the signs
of Allah. In the Hereafter people will be treated based on
their faith in Allah, fear and awareness of Him and the inten-
tion behind the deeds they performed. The wealth or power
which they used to have in the world will not grant them
any privilege. The following verse confirms that wealth is of
no value in the presence of Allah:

We never sent a warner into any city without the af-
fluent people in it saying, "We reject what you have
been sent with." They also said, "We have more
wealth and children. We are not going to be pun-
ished." Say: "My Lord expands the provision of any-

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