DON'T BE SAD Episode 137

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*DON'T BE SAD*

Episode 137

*THE SWEET TASTE OF FREEDOM*

Ar-Raashid wrote in Al-Massar:

Whoever possesses three hundred and sixty loaves, a canister of oil, and one thousand and six hundred dates (i.e enough provision for one year), then none can enslave him."

One of our pious predecessors once said:

"The one who is satisfied with dry bread and water will be free from slavery except the slavery of ALLĀH (Sub-haanahu wata'aala).

Surah Al-Lail, Verse 19:

وَمَا لِأَحَدٍ عِندَهُ مِن نِّعْمَةٍ تُجْزَىٰ

And have in his mind no favour from anyone for which a reward is expected in return,

"My aspirations and desires enslaved me since I obeyed them,

If I had only been contented, I would have been free."

Those who seek to make wealth or status a means to happiness will come to know in the end how futile and fruitless their efforts were.

Surah Al-Anaam, Verse 94:

وَلَقَدْ جِئْتُمُونَا فُرَادَىٰ كَمَا خَلَقْنَاكُمْ أَوَّلَ مَرَّةٍ وَتَرَكْتُم مَّا خَوَّلْنَاكُمْ وَرَاءَ ظُهُورِكُمْ وَمَا نَرَىٰ مَعَكُمْ شُفَعَاءَكُمُ الَّذِينَ زَعَمْتُمْ أَنَّهُمْ فِيكُمْ شُرَكَاءُ لَقَد تَّقَطَّعَ بَيْنَكُمْ وَضَلَّ عَنكُم مَّا كُنتُمْ تَزْعُمُونَ

And truly you have come unto Us alone (without wealth, companions or anything else) as We created you the first time. You have left behind you all that which We had bestowed on you. We see not with you your intercessors whom you claimed to be partners with Allah. Now all relations between you and them have been cut off, and all that you used to claim has vanished from you.

 Surah Al-Ala, Verse 16:

بَلْ تُؤْثِرُونَ الْحَيَاةَ الدُّنْيَا

Nay, you prefer the life of this world;

Surah Al-Ala, Verse 17:

وَالْآخِرَةُ خَيْرٌ وَأَبْقَىٰ

Although the Hereafter is better and more lasting.