How do we reconcile the warning against being preoccupied with this world with the statement: “And do not forget your share of this world”?
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Question:
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, how do we reconcile the warning against leaning on this world and being preoccupied with it, with His saying, the Exalted:[Al-Qasas 28:77]
Answer:
Yes, indeed. Do not forget your share of this world; use it to help you with the Hereafter, use it to help you with the Hereafter. But if you take your share of this world and become preoccupied with it, leaving the Hereafter, that is blameworthy. Yes, and seek in it… My brother, read the beginning of the verse:[Al-Qasas 28:77] Yes.
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, how do we reconcile the warning against leaning on this world and being preoccupied with it, with His saying, the Exalted:
do not forget your share of the world
وَلَا تَنسَ نَصِيبَكَ مِنَ الدُّنْيَاAnswer:
Yes, indeed. Do not forget your share of this world; use it to help you with the Hereafter, use it to help you with the Hereafter. But if you take your share of this world and become preoccupied with it, leaving the Hereafter, that is blameworthy. Yes, and seek in it… My brother, read the beginning of the verse:
But seek, through that which Allah has given you, the home of the Hereafter; and [yet], do not forget your share of the world.
وَابْتَغِ فِيمَا آتَاكَ اللَّهُ الدَّارَ الْآخِرَةَ وَلَا تَنسَ نَصِيبَكَ مِنَ الدُّنْيَا
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، [3247- 4717] ما الجمع بين التحذير من الانشغال بالدنيا وبين قوله:﴿ ولا تنس نصيبك من الدنيا ﴾؟ — youtube.com
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