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Article Nine:
Demolish the Wall of Deception
by Khadim-e-Quran Mohammad M. Shareef
There stands a Wall of Deception -- a mirage, between this World and the Hereafter, that needs to be immediately demolished. If it continues to remain, it will disappear on the Day of Judgement by the Order of Allah (S.W.T.) and the Reality will confront us. That Day will then be nothing but the Day of Sorrow for us.
Every person today, irrespective of religion or creed, is in a state of chaos and worry and is in desperate pursuit of fulfilling the one and the sole ambition of becoming wealthy. Wealth is perceived as the only media with which all desires and wishes can come true. It can satisfy all the cravings of the Self (Nafs) and one can acquire more and more of social status, of comforts and luxuries. Therefore, every one�s earnest prayer and entreaty to Allah (S.W.T.) today is for Wealth so that one can faithfully submit to the dictates of Nafs and spend the lifetime after it.
Doesn�t this demand a serious consideration to see if this is what Allah (S.W.T.) had created us for -- that we struggle on this world to pacify the Nafs and the one who becomes wealthy should be happy and enjoy it? No, not at all. Definitely and absolutely not. Then what is it? We are all subject to a Test. This world is a farmland and every one of us like a farmer. Whichever grain-seeds we sow in this farmland of Deeds, we shall reap the harvest of that grain in the Hereafter.
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