Allah says in the Qur'an:
I had so much
difficulty figuring out what Allah might mean in this verse when I was a
youngster. Is it the 'sexual reproduction'; having more and more children? But
why would
that be a bad thing whilst it's praised in much other Muslim literature?
As I always
do, I carried on that question mark along with me for so long till I came
across
many resources that clarified that issue for me.
When I read
on capitalism and minimalism, there was the answer. It's a human struggle
between 'piling-up/abundance/affluence' and 'up-grading/qualifying/self-evolution'; we tend instinctively to consume more and
more, piling useless stuff up, forgetting the higher end of our existence which is to
clarify ourselves (tazkyet el nafs) and to know Allah, the Creator.
And as the
infamous twitter parody account Capitalism says in one of its tweets; Every consumption is self-consumption, we regrettably -in today's industrial and
modern societies -consume more and more trivial stuff and unnecessary clutter
and so we consume ourselves and forget who we are and what we are here for, and
get distracted, till we "visit the graves" or in other words DIE.
Let us always
recall the clichéd yet genius saying of Friday sermons:
ما قل و كفى خير ممّا كثر و ألهى
Lets us live a life of upgrading, trying to
qualify the 'less' we have in hand rather than pile up stuff that we don't
need.
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