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A Spiritual Note
Edition 5 - 22 July 2005 - 15 Jumada al-Thani 1426
As-salaamu 'alaikum (Peace be upon you).
Our Spiritual Note
for this week has been taken from the book The Ark of Noah by Hazrat
Mirza Ghulam Ahmad.
You can read the book at http://www.aaiil.org/text/books/mga/kishtinooharknoah/kishtinooharknoah.shtml
The Trial of Success and Wealth
"Do not start wondering why other people are meeting with success although they have not the slightest idea of your Most-perfect and All-powerful God. The answer is this, and this alone, that having forsaken Allah, they have been put to trial by means of material means.
Oftentimes, a trial from Allah comes in such a way that whoever forsakes Him, and gives himself up to carnal pleasures and, setting his mind wholly on material wealth, finds that the doors of worldly advancement are opened to him even though from a religious and spiritual point of view he is altogether destitute and naked. He finally dies while engrossed in this world only to be thrown into an eternal hell.
Sometimes this trial takes another form in that such a person remains unsuccessful even in the task of amassing wealth. But the latter trial is not so dangerous as the former, since the former breeds an inordinate measure of pride and engenders a superiority complex.
In any case, both these groups are of those on whom falls the wrath of Allah. The true fountainhead for all kinds of prosperity is Allah. Therefore, when these people are unaware of this Living and Sustaining Being and in fact become heedless of Him and turn their backs upon Him, how can real prosperity be their lot? Blessed are they who understand this secret, and in dire straits is he who fails to grasp it."
Khuda Haafiz,
Riaz Ahmadali
Institute for Islamic Studies and Publications
Paramaribo, Suriname
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http://moeslim.8m.net
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