If You Turn Away From Worldly Life-It Has No Choice But To Follow You:
The Dunya is like a shadow—When light Falls on an object, the shadow is that which one sees behind it. In short, the shadow is something that is not real, it is a Fake imagery.
This Dunya(Worldly Life) is only a shadow, and For us to be chasing dunya (this worldly life) while disregarding the hereafter is like chasing after a shadow instead of a person.
Allah has made many promises in the Quran.
And among them is this:
And if you are thankful, then I will increase you. (Quran 14:7)
Rather than running after that which we so desperately seek, if we turn our back to it and are thankful For what we have, then Allah will increase it. So the next time, rather than complain about the lack of money, we should be thankful For the little money that Allah has given us, and He will increase.
It does not mean we do nothing. But that in our pursuit, we remember to thank Allah For what He has already given, and in thanking Him the Dunya will Follow on its own.
Turn Your Back To Dunya:
The Dunya is a tool. It is about how we use it and how our attitude towards it is. When we turn our backs to it, we do not stop utilizing it For what it is. We just do not make it a matter of our concerns. We keep our primary concern to be the Hereafter.
The Prophet (saw)said: "Whoever makes the Hereafter his goal, Allah makes his heart rich, and organizes his affairs, and the world comes to him whether it wants to or not.
And whoever makes the world his goal, Allah puts his poverty right before his eyes, and disorganizes his affairs, and the world does not come to him, except what has been decreed For him". (At-Tirmidhi).
So,the point is that — when a person does not prefer this worldly life to the Hereafter, he starts trying to earn the Hereafter,which is the Real Success.
Such a person knows that the life of this world is a Fraction of a day compared to the Hereafter, so he uses this worldly life to earn the Hereafter.
May Allah(swt) grant us Success in this Life and the Hereafter.(Ameen).
JazakAllah (May Allah Reward You [with] Goodness)For Reading.
