Live In This World —Without Allowing The World To Live Inside You:

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ife before the love of Allah — diseases like greed, arrogance, ingratitude, jealousy, vanity all start to take over our heart and destroy our lives.</b></p><blockquote id="594d"><p>Imam Abu Abdullah Jafar as-Sadiq said, “One who passes his evenings and mornings in such a way that the world be his biggest concern, God ordains poverty between his two eyes and causes his affairs to become disjointed and dissipated, while he does not attain anything except what has been apportioned For him.</p></blockquote><blockquote id="e4b9"><p>And as For one<b> — who passes his evenings and mornings while his biggest concern and goal be the Hereafter, God puts contentment to his heart and gives a wholeness and unity to his affairs.”</b></p></blockquote><blockquote id="45f1"><p>(Al-Kulayni, Usul al-Kafi — Tehran, Vol. IV)</p></blockquote><p id="9795">So,aim to live in this world without allowing the world to live inside you because <b>—</b> <b>when a boat sits on water, it sails perfectly, but when water enters the boat, it sinks.</b></p><p id="66aa">So, important point here is to understand the meaning of <b>‘the disapproved world’ —i.e. ‘the world’ in the sense in which it is necessary For the person seeking the Hereafter to shun it.</b></p><p id="18ef">Love of the world destroys man eternally, and it is the source of his affliction with inward and outward villainies.</p><p id="07e6"><b>Don't think about what others can do For you, ask yourself wha

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t you can do For others with the power you have.</b></p><p id="e8c9"><b>So,the point is — not to let ourselves drown in the love of the world but</b> <b>to live in the world and earn the Hereafter and this is possible only when we live according to the order of our Creator and not according to the will of other people.</b> In this way we will become a strong Force to bring about positive change in the world.</p><p id="d17c"><b><i>May Allah (swt) make us a source of good For others. (Ameen).</i></b></p><p id="e075">JazakAllah (May Allah Reward You [with] Goodness)For Reading.</p><p id="9c40"><a href="https://sanahawan.medium.com/subscribe">https://sanahawan.medium.com/subscribe</a></p><p id="5949">Kindly Follow & subscribe to receive the latest insightful stories by email.</p><div id="357d" class="link-block"> <a href="https://sanahawan.medium.com/membership"> <div> <div> <h2>Join Medium with my referral link - S.a.n.a.h</h2> <div><h3>As a Medium member, a portion of your membership fee goes to writers you read, and you get full access to every story…</h3></div> <div><p>sanahawan.medium.com</p></div> </div> <div> <div style="background-image: url(https://miro.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:320/0*wnFbe98GX3KvDbY9)"></div> </div> </div> </a> </div></article></body>

Live In This World —Without Allowing The World To Live Inside You:

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When we start chasing the world For world’s sake instead of using it as a means to our real Goal (pleasing Allah) that is when our priorities are mixed up — And we start to suffer From a serious spiritual disease.

There is nothing wrong in loving this Wordly life. These are all means to sustain our lives and continue our worship. It is after all a blessing For us and a means For us to be thankful to our Creator.

The problem comes when we make Wordly life the goal and not the means to the ultimate Goal. The Wordly life is a place where we are For a time, and whatever is in this life should be used For or avoided with the ultimate Goal of pleasing Allah in mind.

Our Goal is not to be as rich, or as powerful, or as comfortable as we possibly can in this life — This life is just a means to the Hereafter where what we do in this life will determine our position with Allah. And Allah knows how we Forget the world’s place in our journey to the Hereafter.

As a physical disease destroys the body, a spiritual disease destroys the soul. When we put the love of this Wordly life before the love of Allah — diseases like greed, arrogance, ingratitude, jealousy, vanity all start to take over our heart and destroy our lives.

Imam Abu Abdullah Jafar as-Sadiq said, “One who passes his evenings and mornings in such a way that the world be his biggest concern, God ordains poverty between his two eyes and causes his affairs to become disjointed and dissipated, while he does not attain anything except what has been apportioned For him.

And as For one — who passes his evenings and mornings while his biggest concern and goal be the Hereafter, God puts contentment to his heart and gives a wholeness and unity to his affairs.”

(Al-Kulayni, Usul al-Kafi — Tehran, Vol. IV)

So,aim to live in this world without allowing the world to live inside you because — when a boat sits on water, it sails perfectly, but when water enters the boat, it sinks.

So, important point here is to understand the meaning of ‘the disapproved world’ —i.e. ‘the world’ in the sense in which it is necessary For the person seeking the Hereafter to shun it.

Love of the world destroys man eternally, and it is the source of his affliction with inward and outward villainies.

Don't think about what others can do For you, ask yourself what you can do For others with the power you have.

So,the point is — not to let ourselves drown in the love of the world but to live in the world and earn the Hereafter and this is possible only when we live according to the order of our Creator and not according to the will of other people. In this way we will become a strong Force to bring about positive change in the world.

May Allah (swt) make us a source of good For others. (Ameen).

JazakAllah (May Allah Reward You [with] Goodness)For Reading.

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