Simplicity – A Great Lesson Learned By Islam

Either it is 21st century or any other century, the world is always contained every type of people like super-rich, middle-class and the poverty-stricken. The great Allah has distributed aliment to the people according to His infinite erudition by giving some more than others. According to Him, this distribution is a test for every individual. Those people who have less luxuries have an indication that they turn to Allah and beg from Him to fulfill their needs. The rich and wealthy people have an indication that they thank to Allah for this wealth which is totally because of Him.

Our great religion Islam doesn’t deny a person to spend his life with all those luxuries which he can afford. But the matter is fact that our Prophet Mohammad (S.A.W) always taught to Sahaaba-e-Karaam (R.A.) to avoid too many luxuries. Not only He taught this simplicity lesson to Muslim Ummah but also He was himself a lifelike example of it. Allah offered to turn the mountains into gold for Hazrat Mohammad (S.A.W) but the life style which He selected for spending is that on many occasion, there was nothing available on His home to eat.

While adopting this simplicity himself, Hazrat Mohammad (S.A.W) also advised of simplicity to Sahaaba (R.A) as well. When he was dispatching Maaz Bin Jabal (R.A.A) as a Governor of Yemen then He give him several advices in which one was that: “Beware of hankering after comforts and luxuries for verily the true servants of Allah are not self-indulgent.” Also, at one time, Sahaaba (R.A) was talking about some worldly matters then Mohammad (S.A.W) addressed them, “Will you not listen? Will you not listen? Will you not listen? Verily simplicity is a part of Imaan. Verily simplicity is a part of Imaan. Verily simplicity is a part of Imaan”. (Abu Dawood).

So, in today’s world, where everything has been too much expensive and people always see the dreams that how can they become rich. In that situation, we should never leave the simplicity which is taught by our Holy Prophet Hazrat Mohammad (S.A.W). Always use that quantity of wealth due to which we can fulfill our basic living needs. Whenever this wealth is started to be over-flow, then it can make you arrogant. This is the reason where a human becomes greedy and leaves to Thank to Allah. Because his moto becomes only to earn more and more wealth. His desire is to become richer. So avoid too much wealth. Also, make your habit to give voluntary charity (Sadaqah) on the name of Allah. It is my personal experience that this Sadaqah will keep you save from too much love to your wealth, greediness and arrogancy.