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SEEING GOOD IN ALL

of wealthy disbelievers who are reluctant to spend of their
wealth. The disbelievers' consideration that their thriftiness
is "clever", and their supposition that hoarding the wealth
they are unwilling to spend for the cause of God is to be of
some benefit for them, is purely ignorant. In the Qur'an, God
informs us that such wealth is evil and will only bring
torment in hell:

Those who are tight-fisted with the bounty God has
given them should not suppose that that is better for
them. No indeed, it is worse for them! What they were
tight-fisted with will be hung around their necks on the
Day of Rising. God is the inheritor of the heavens and
the earth and God is aware of what you do. (Surah Al
'Imran: 180)
In Surat al-Qasas, God relates the story of Qarun. God
bestowed great fortune upon Qarun but he became vain due
to extent of his wealth, and grew insolent towards his Lord.
The case of Qarun, who was destroyed because he remained
inattentive to the warnings, is a lesson for people. Qarun's
story is related in the Qur'an as follows:

Qarun was one of the people of Musa but he lorded it
over them. We gave him treasures, the keys alone to
which were a heavy weight for a party of strong men.
When his people said to him, "Do not gloat. God does
not love people who gloat. Seek the abode of the
hereafter with what God has given you, without
forgetting your portion of the world. And do good as
God has been good to you. And do not seek to cause
corruption in the earth. God does not love corrupters"
he said, "I have only been given it because of