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Striving Earnestly for Allah's Approval

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Some people's only aim in life is to attain happiness and comfort in this world.

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Most set themselves a goal such as becoming wealthy.

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They do everything they can to achieve this goal

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and use all their physical and mental strength to become wealthy.

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Others consider their purpose in life to be becoming respected and famous.

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They do everything they can to achieve this as well.

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But all these are nothing more than empty goals that will disappear with death.

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Indeed, many of them may be lost even during one's lifetime.

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A believer who aspires to Allah's approval and paradise

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also strives earnestly to attain these goals.

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He uses his wealth and his life to earn Allah's approval.

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This attribute of the believer is described in the Quran as follows.

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Allah has bought from the believers their selves and their wealth in return for the garden.

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They fight in the way of Allah and they kill and are killed.

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It is a promise binding on him in the Torah, the Gospel and the Quran.

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And who is truer to his contract than Allah?

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Rejoice then in the bargain you have made.

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That is the great victory.

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A person who has sold his wealth and his life to Allah is unaffected by any difficulty he may encounter

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for the sake of Allah's approval.

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He turns towards nothing other than Allah's approval.

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Allah is the owner of his body and everything he possesses,

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and he uses all these things as he wills.

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Therefore, the criterion for being a believer is to feel a heartfelt desire for Allah's approval

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and not to refrain from making sacrifices for this cause when necessary.

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