The Judgment in the Sight of Allah

 

It should be noted that; The fact that a person is rich does not mean that Allah values him. Likewise, the fact that a person is poor does not mean that he is worthless in the sight of Allah.

The heedlessness of this materialist mentality, which measures everything in terms of worldliness, is stated as follows in the Qur’an:

“And as for man, when his Lord tests him by honoring him and favoring

him, he says, ‘My Lord has honored me.’

But when He tests him by restricting his provision, he says, ‘My Lord has

humiliated me!.” (Al-Fajr, 15-16)

This state of mind is a result of heedlessness of the fact that the world is a realm of testing. However, Allah Almighty states that He gives both blessings and deprivations to test His servants.

In another verse it is stated that the society and geography where people are born have different characteristics. Afterwards, it is declared that the only measure of value in the sight of Allah is “taqwa” which means to fearful protect

لِتَعَارَفُوا اِنَّ اَكْرَمَكُمْ عِنْدَ اللِّٰاَتْقٰيكُمْيَآ اَيُّهَا النَّاسُ اِنَّا خَلَقْنَاكُمْ مِنْ ذَكَرٍ وَاُنْثٰى وَجَعَلْنَاكُمْ شُعُوبًا وَقَبَٓائِلَ.yourself from the anger of Allah by doing what He has commanded “Mankind! We created you from a male and a female, and made you into peoples and tribes, so that you might come to know each other. The noblest of you in Allah’s sight, is the one with the most taqwa. Allah is all-knowing, All-Aware.” (Al-Hujurat, 13)

This verse was revealed about a slave who was sold in the market of Medina:

This strong slave, whom everyone admired, wanted only one thing from the person he would serve: “Having permission to perform his prayers in congregation with the messenger of Allah.”

As a matter of fact, the slave who was bought with this condition, began to perform his five daily prayers behind the Prophet with great ecstasy and enthusiasm.

The Messenger of Allah also showed great attention to this man and he would look for him when he came to the mosque. So much that he went to visit him with his companions when this servant fell ill. And he took care of everything until his burial when he died. The Muhajir and Ansar were astonished at the attention shown to this slave, thereon this verse was revealed. (Wahidi, p.411-412)

This shows that the most valuable characteristic of a servant in the sight of Allah and His Messenger is; It is to feel the desire to be with Allah and His Messenger and prostrating to Allah Almighty in a state of spiritual ecstasy. And in order to achieve this, it is necessary to live a life of taqwa that Allah Almighty will be content with by arranging every stage of life with the criteria of the Messenger of Allah.

Allah almighty is saying: “As for those who call out to you from outside your private quarters, most of them do not use their intellect.” (Al-Hujurat, 4)

This means that not being able to appreciate the value of the Messenger of Allah and being deprived of him is the greatest ignorance.