Excerpts from 'Finding Peace in this World' by Anwar Al-Awlaki:
Ata ibn Rabah (عطاء بن أبي رباح) has said, one of the benefits of remembering death is not competing over this dunya (world). ['You will not fight or compete with people of this world over this world']. And that which causes you to have tranquility in your heart, because what makes people anxious and obnoxious is competing over material things. Because this world is small and our desires are large, nothing can satisfy this desire of human beings.
Prophet Muhammad ﷺ (peace be upon him) said, 'if the son of Adam had a valley of gold, he would request another one and nothing would please the son of Adam, nothing would shut him up except dirt. Nothing would satisfy this greed except the dirt.' When you go back to the dirt that would close and terminate all of your desires.
Look at the wars now around the globe, what are they fighting for? Its over money, wealth and this dunya. Its over oil, land and natural resources, that is why wars happen. All this is happening for the sake of this dunya, all for what? Just diverting our attention away from the truth. These wars are masked, there is an underlying motive. If humans beings, were to think about death they would be pleased with what Allah the Almighty has given them and they would not complete over this world.
As Al Hasan Al Basri has said: “A sign that Allah has turned away from a servant is that He makes him busy with matters that are of no concern to him.” - isn`t this the case today?
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