To wealth belongs a strange property. If you put it aside it is of no worth. Its utility lies only in spending it, making use of it, in parting from it. This beloved is always faithless, has been faithless and will continue to be faithless to everyone. The love of lifeless wealth deprives the living man of moral values. The love of wealth makes him greedy and the heart of the greedy always remains empty, though his pockets be full.
There are people who love Allah. Only Allah and no one else. They don’t love this men. How an Allah be pleased with those who don’t love His men. Dear in Allah’s eyes are only those who love and are loved by mankind. The secret of Allah’s love lies in the love for men. Allah is worthy of worship, man is the beloved. The way of Allah is the way of human beings ______ the way of those who have been rewarded.
As far as man is concerned, wealth, which is today’s beloved, has resulted in great unhappiness. The distance between human beings is growing. The geographical distances are drawing to an end but the gulf separating the feeling heart from the seeing eyes is widening. The family as a unit has already ceased to be. The walls raised by money divide husbands from the wives and children from their parents. The wife can put up with her husband’s absence but cannot bear to be deprived of money. As luck would have it, wealth is now obtainable overseas only. The husband resides in some foreign country, the wife makes do with letters and remittances. The houses present a gay appearance but he is no where to be seen for whose hospitality’s sake all these homes are being decorated. He has gone away to make money.
Some people regard an ideology as their beloved. The love of ideologies has led to chaos in many a country. The division into left and right has caused a split within the nation. Brothers face each other, nay, they confront each other. Fresh mischief is afort in this beautiful land of our. The ideologist is misanthrope. The danger of a war caused by ideologies looms very near. The situation is fraught with danger. Men stand divided. Iran and Iraq are ideologies. Both parties are engaged in a jihad. Both groups are battling it out for the sake of the true God. Who is right? Who is in the wrong? Both of them can’t be right. To love one’s beloved cannot be the same thing as war mongering. In our country the government and the opposition are at loggerheads. Two ideologies on the warpath! People who are bereft of the love of human beings have fallen a prey to ideologies.
Without the love of human beings, even the love of one’s country is an illusion. We cannot love a country in which there is no one we can call our beloved. The patriotism of today’s man is dubious simply because he is unable to love human beings. The man who loves land, houses and money has been but off from the real spirit of love. We love our country because our dear ones live in it. Otherwise what does the country or love of the country matter? If the beloved is to be found outside the country, love also, which must trail the beloved, will turn its back on the country.
Fame is the most dangerous of beloveds. Someone who loves fame is in fact the worshipper of his own ego. It is a crime to become prominent without serving the people. The man who gains fame in a society based on false-hood would be regarded as infamous in a truthful society.
By WASIF ALI WASIF
