The Qur’an For All Humanity
Material Pursuit
~ 107 ~
But man is not usually able to be consistently
responsible. The lure of material things and his own
never-ending greed cause him to pursue worldly
ends
unceasingly
and
with
the utmost
concentration. In this way he passes his days until
the time comes for him to depart from this world.
At that time he leaves all his life’s earnings behind
him. In the next world he finds himself all of a
sudden in a state of total deprivation, having
nothing with him to stand by him in the next stage
of his life. Man craves for more and more money,
for gathering around him more and more material
comforts. He thinks incessantly of this world until
his call to leave for the next world comes. Only then
does the realisation dawn on him that all his
savings will be of no avail in that world where he
has to live for all eternity. That is, he has saved
nothing for the world to come.
The accumulation of material things only adds to
man’s accountability. But man in his sheer ignorance
continues to think, blissfully indeed, that his success
is being crowned with more and more laurels.
