(6) Mashari al-Ashwaq ila Masari al-Ushaaq
Ibn an-Nuhaas (رحمه الله)
2) “But my relatives and wealth!”
If you say: “my relatives, wealth, children and family hamper me from jihaad”, for Allah (سبحانه و تعالى) has stated words that are clear not concealed: “and it is not your wealth nor your children that bring you nearer to us...” [45]
and the Most High says: “Beautified for men is the love of things they covet; women children much of gold silver branded beautiful horse, cattle and well tilled land. This is the pleasure of the present worlds life, but Allah has the excellent return.” [46]
and the Most High says: “Know that the life of this world is only play and amusement, pomp and mutual boasting among you and rivalry in respect of wealth and children, as the likeness of vegetation after rain , thereof the growth is pleasing to the tiller, afterwards it dries up and you see it turning yellow then it becomes straw. But in the hereafter a severe torment and forgiveness from Allah and good pleasure whereas the life of this world is only a deceiving enjoyment.” [47]
There are many verses similar to this and the proofs are clear and gleaming. In a hadeeth; “If the present world were to be worth the wing of a mosquito in the reckoning of Allah (سبحانه و تعالى) he would not give a disbeliever a drink of water from it.” [48]
and the prophet (صلى الله عليه وسلم ) has said “The space of a whip of any one of you in paradise is better than the present world and that which is in it, a morning march in the cause of Allah or an evening march is better than the present world and that which is in it and the veil of a woman from the people of paradise is better than the present world and that which is in it.” [49]
So how do you let hinder you from this vast kingdom a family? Who after a while will be amongst the dead, tear them apart the hands of the dispersers and split them the decent of diseases. With that which emanates from them of annoyance, enmity, bad manners and malevolence for that which you averted from their share to loss. Their desertion of you when wealth is scarce and their transformation to love of you when situations change.
Greater than this is their abandonment of you on the Day of Consequences, holding you to account for the smallest of things at the moment of the Grand Questioning so much so that each one of them would wish that he be saved and you carry that which is upon him of sins and burdens.
How do you let hamper you that which is in the fair of departure and decline? Fleeing from you when friendship is lost and when relatives disperse. Abandoning you every friend who use to frequent your company, then on the Day of Judgement you will be asked about him, where did you meet? And what did you do?
Oh you who will be questioned! On a day that children will become grey haired, fears intensified, crushing crowds plentiful, disputes heated, every suckling mother shall neglect her suckling infant and every pregnant mother shall miscarry [50] from the fear of that day. The guilty shall be known by their marks and they shall be grabbed by their forelocks and their feet [51].
On that Day the rich shall be held to account for the spot on a date and the skin of a date pip, the significant and the wretched, the incomplete and complete and the poor shall precede the wealthy to paradise by five hundred years [52]. They shall feast, drink and enjoy in the abode of peace, whilst you Oh rich one! Shall be held from them because of your wealth and you will fear that you be ordered to be taken to Maalik [53].
Then do you sadden upon the departure of that [54] which if scarce increases your worries and concerns, if plentiful makes you rich and causes you to transgress, if you die you leave it behind you, of the things which you return. In front of you the standing and accounting for it, what can make you perceive? Give it that the whole world in its entirety is yours, is not to an end its eventuality? Your departure from it is a must, even if you cling to its deceptive glory.
Notes:
45 (Saba:37)
46 (Al-Imraan:14)
47 (Al-Hadeed:20)
48 Narrated by; At-Tirmithi who states that it is saheeh ghareeb, Al-Haakim; saheeh chain of reporters, Abdullah Ibn Al-Mubaarak, Al-Baihaqi in Shu’ab Al-Eeman.
49 Narrated by Al-Bukhari.
50 In reference to Surat Al-Hajj:2
51 In reference to Surat Ar-Rahmaan:41
52 In reference to a hadeeth narrated by At-Tirmithi from Abu Hurrayra who said : The prophet (S.A.W) said : “The poor ones of the Muslims will enter paradise before the wealthy by half a day, and that is five hundred years.” ; hadeeth hassan saheeh. Also narrated by ; Ibn Maaja and Imam Ahmad.
53 Maalik : the custodian angel of the hell fire.
54 Referring to wealth.
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