Avoid luxuries
God the Almighty says: the heretics indeed are the people who are pleased
to have the gains of this world and they are contented with them that they
do not feel the urge to make a move towards God. The verse
'fala noqeemo
lahum yaumal qiyamati wazna', does not mention sin because these are
the people who gave all the preference to the worldly desires. At another
place God the Almighty says: these people have got the full enjoyment of
this world; there also it is not the sin that has been mentioned rather
it is pleasure of this world which ordinarily are made lawful by God. These
people who have been called heretics got themselves engrossed in the acquisition
of these pleasures. This type of people will have no worth in the eyes of
God Almighty nor will they be honoured. A luxurious life is indeed a Satan
which decimes a man. So far as the behaviour is concerned he himself runs
after the hardships. Were he to make compromises he would live a life of
comforts. If the Holy Prophet
(sallallaho alaihi wa sallam) had done
this there would have been no need for him to go to (through hardships of)
battlefields but he gave preference to religion over the worldly affairs
and therefore all the people turned into his enemies.
(Malfoozat vol. 7, pg 108)