The Meaning of the Everlasting Good Deeds and Giving Priority to Wealth and Children Over Them
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The questioner:
Allah says:[Al-Kahf 18:46] to the end of the verse. The question asks: What are the remaining good deeds?
The Shaykh:
The remaining good deeds are all righteous deeds.
The questioner:
Because they
The Shaykh:
are for the person. As for this world, the adornment of this worldly life, it goes away. Wealth and sons are an adornment, but it is an adornment that goes away. It ends. As for the remaining good deeds, they remain in the Hereafter. Yes.
The questioner:
A continuation of the question: What is the wisdom in mentioning wealth and sons before the good deeds that remain?
The Shaykh:
Because souls love wealth and sons, but Allah reminds them that their love for wealth and sons should not occupy them from the good deeds that remain. Yes.
Allah says:
Wealth and children are [but] adornment of the worldly life. But the enduring good
الْمَالُ وَالْبَنُونَ زِينَةُ الْحَيَاةِ الدُّنْيَا وَالْبَاقِيَاتُ الصَّالِحَاتُThe Shaykh:
The remaining good deeds are all righteous deeds.
The questioner:
Because they
The Shaykh:
are for the person. As for this world, the adornment of this worldly life, it goes away. Wealth and sons are an adornment, but it is an adornment that goes away. It ends. As for the remaining good deeds, they remain in the Hereafter. Yes.
The questioner:
A continuation of the question: What is the wisdom in mentioning wealth and sons before the good deeds that remain?
The Shaykh:
Because souls love wealth and sons, but Allah reminds them that their love for wealth and sons should not occupy them from the good deeds that remain. Yes.
Source
مجالس رمضان 1431هـ - 05 — alfawzan.live (30:05)
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