What is meant by love of this world?
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Question:
In the last of the questioner’s (A.T.) questions, she says: What is meant by love of this world, O Shaykh? And are there things for which one loves this world?
Answer:
Love of this world involves a distinction: loving this world to the extent that it takes precedence over the Hereafter is what is blameworthy. However, loving it to use it as a means to obey Allah, to be sincere in it, to be kind to the servants of Allah, and to build mosques with it is permissible.
So what is blameworthy is loving it for its own sake, loving it to hoard it and accumulate it. But loving it to spend it in the causes of good, loving to have wealth so that one can give charity, build mosques, spend in the cause of Allah, and support the poor, this is what is required.
What is required of the believer is to strive to seek wealth so that he can spend it in the cause of Allah. He should trade, plant, plow, and do other works from what Allah has permitted to earn wealth, just as the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said when he was asked, “Which earnings are the purest?” He said:Mishkat al-Masabih 2783 And the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: Sahih al-Bukhari 2072 -may peace and blessings be upon him-; he was a blacksmith who made armor -may peace and blessings be upon him-.
So loving it for the sake of being stingy with it and hoarding it, this is what is blameworthy. But loving it to spend from it, to be kind to the servants of Allah, and to use it as a means to obey Allah, all of this is what is required. Yes.
The presenter: May Allah reward you with good.
In the last of the questioner’s (A.T.) questions, she says: What is meant by love of this world, O Shaykh? And are there things for which one loves this world?
Answer:
Love of this world involves a distinction: loving this world to the extent that it takes precedence over the Hereafter is what is blameworthy. However, loving it to use it as a means to obey Allah, to be sincere in it, to be kind to the servants of Allah, and to build mosques with it is permissible.
So what is blameworthy is loving it for its own sake, loving it to hoard it and accumulate it. But loving it to spend it in the causes of good, loving to have wealth so that one can give charity, build mosques, spend in the cause of Allah, and support the poor, this is what is required.
What is required of the believer is to strive to seek wealth so that he can spend it in the cause of Allah. He should trade, plant, plow, and do other works from what Allah has permitted to earn wealth, just as the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said when he was asked, “Which earnings are the purest?” He said:
A man’s work with his hand and every business transaction which is approved
عمل الرجل بيده، وكل بيع مبرورNobody has ever eaten a better meal than that which one has earned by working with one's own hands. The Prophet (ﷺ) of Allah, David used to eat from the earnings of his manual labor.
ما أكل أحد طعامًا أفضل من أن يأكل من عمل يده، وكان نبي الله داود يأكل من عمل يدهSo loving it for the sake of being stingy with it and hoarding it, this is what is blameworthy. But loving it to spend from it, to be kind to the servants of Allah, and to use it as a means to obey Allah, all of this is what is required. Yes.
The presenter: May Allah reward you with good.
Source
binbaz.org.sa
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