What does the Quran say about desires?
That was a question I recently discussed with my youth group, and I wanted to share the verse with you all about temptations and desires:
“Beautified for people is the love of that which they desire – of women and children, heaped-up sums of gold and silver, fine branded horses, and cattle and tilled land. That is the enjoyment of worldly life, but Allah has with Him the best return.” [3:14]
Think about these:
- women (relationships)
- children (lineage, legacy, retirement)
- gold and silver (now dollars and bitcoin)
- fine horses (ferraris)
- cattle (stocks and investments)
- tilled land (real estate and property)
That’s pretty much all our desires, isn’t it? And yes they are the enjoyments of this life, it’s not necessarily in a negative light here.
Then Allah reminds us that it will all end one day and we will return to Him.
What do you think? Share your reflections down below!
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Truly, in these times, our desires are increasing. The best example was from horses to ferraris
We need to remember the fact that all of us will return to Allah. All this “duniyah” things are nothing in comparison to Jannat. Let’s face difficulties here and get the gifts and rewards in the hereafter 😊🌹
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This is a great and a simple way of making us realize, the limitations of of this, and significance of HEARAFTER.
Indeed which is never ending one
Assalamualaikum,
Very insightful verse.
I would put it this way: in the present world it needs to be a perfect balance between the two, I mean without overdoing it.
Many won’t agree to this saying it’s akhira which is all we need to concentrate.
But if we be practical and just give a thought, what drives us to success or achieve our objectives in this world ? It is the small goals and target we keep- of course that helps us to do ibaadah and thank Allah for all the blessings.
If we don’t have an ambition how can we live a positive life? It may bring us more failures in this world which may lead to hereafter.
Yes we need family, money and things but all for a decent living not to forget Allah and neither be miser to save everything. That’s the thought I wish to share.
JazakAllahu khair.
As salam alaykum wa ramatullahi wa barakatu
I think that is okay to desire the good things of this life but we should have even a stronger desired for the hereafter because at the end the real happiness will be in Jannah and not on this world I think the main purpose of this life is to be tested with our wealth, family ,friends and our deeds and once you passed the test you will be truly blessed, happy in Jannah 😊
Yes absolutely. Both the good things and the bad things are a test in this life. It is what we do with these things that really matters 🙂
Assalamualaikum.
one trap is that fulfilling a desire doesn’t make it go away; rather it increases (later).
I think, somewhere in the Quran, Allah swt says He tests us, both with good things and trials. Sometimes we see people who win a vast sum then ruining themselves with dissipation etc.
Yes, exactly. Only Allah knows what a true blessing is. If it brings us closer to Allah, then that is the best thing for us.