Al-Emran 116-117
116- THOSE WHO DISBELIEVE, NEITHER THEIR WEALTH NOR THEIR CHILDREN WILL IN THE LEAST PROTECT THEM FROM ALLAH; THEY ARE THE PEOPLE OF THE FIRE, WHERE THEY WILL ABIDE FOREVER.
117- THE PARABLE OF WHAT THEY SPEND IS THIS LIFE IS THAT OF A WIND WITH SEVERE HEAT OR COLD, STRIKING THE HARVEST OF PEOPLE WHO WRONGED THEIR OWN SOULS AND DESTROYED IT. ALLAH WAS NOT UNJUST TO THEM, BUT THEY WERE UNJUST TO THEMSELVES.
Allah the Highest is telling us about the state of the disbelievers after having told us about the believers.
In our life on earth, the sources of a person’s power are his wealth and family, mainly children. These are the things people value most and feel to give them the greatest protection. However on the Day of Resurrection, neither wealth nor children nor any thing else will protect the disbelievers from Allah’s anger and punishment.
Allah the Highest does not accept the charity of the disbelievers and they are not rewarded for it in the Hereafter, which they do not believe in any way. This is not unfair, for they do not believe in Allah, or Resurrection and Judgement, and Hereafter. They did not do their charity for the sake of Allah’s pleasure, but for other reasons. They get their reward in this life however, financial, self satisfaction, recognition and praise.
Allah the Highest draws for us a very vivid picture of the fate of the disbeliever’s charity as far as the Hereafter is concerned. The picture is that of a field with a crop ready to be harvested. Before it is harvested, the crop is struck by wind of extreme weather, hot or cold, destroying it totally. All the money and work spent on the land is wasted. The money and work and the crop are the disbeliever’s charity, which becomes nothing when it is time to collect it’s reward and recompense, this is in the Hereafter.
Allah the Highest is not unjust to us. The disbelievers are unjust to their own souls by their disbelieving. Allah the Highest sent us prophets and messengers and books to guide us and in order that we may take heed. Some take heed and others do not. We have choices to make about faith as in every thing else, and we have to bear the consequences of our choices and actions.
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