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For Believers, There is Good in All Things

this world. Our purpose is to remind believers of the hidden
blessings and rewards that being patient brings to them, both
in this world and hereafter.

God Tests Man With Loss of Wealth

The goal of the majority of people in life is to accumulate
as much wealth as possible. To this end, they resort to
whatever means, even illegitimate or illicit. The value that
humans attach to possessions is described in the Qur'an as
"love" for "the embellishment of the life of this world."
To mankind the love of worldly appetites is painted in
glowing colours: women and children, and heaped-up
mounds of gold and silver, and horses with fine
markings, and livestock and fertile farmland. All that is

merely the enjoyment of the life of this world. The best
homecoming is in the presence of God. (Surah Al
'Imran: 14)
Wealth and sons are the embellishment of the life of
this world. But, in your Lord's sight, right actions which
are lasting bring a better reward and are a better basis
for hope. (Surat al-Kahf: 46)
In another verse, God addresses such people with the
words; "And you have an insatiable love of wealth."(Surat
al-Fajr: 20) As we are to understand from this verse, the
ignorant crave wealth. Because, wealth is one of the primary
measures of status in societies whose values are not based on
religion. In these errant societies, people revere, honour and
esteem the well-off. Attaining to such wealth makes its
possessors wrongly suppose that they hold great power.