{"id":13290,"date":"2019-01-24T06:24:06","date_gmt":"2019-01-24T04:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/?p=13290"},"modified":"2019-01-24T06:24:06","modified_gmt":"2019-01-24T04:24:06","slug":"inordinate-love-of-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/?p=13290","title":{"rendered":"Inordinate Love of the World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/?attachment_id=13291\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-13291\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-13291\" src=\"http:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/gold-bars.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"258\" height=\"172\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/gold-bars.jpg 258w, https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/gold-bars-190x127.jpg 190w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 258px) 100vw, 258px\" \/><\/a>Hazrat Mufti Ebrahim Salejee (Daamat Barakaatuhu) mentioned:<\/p>\n<p>When wealth becomes a person\u2019s goal and primary objective then unfortunately he adopts any and every means possible to acquire it, regardless of whether it is halaal or haraam.<\/p>\n<p>Rasulullah (sallahu \u2018alaihi wasallam) mentioned: \u201cLove of the world is the root of all evil.\u201d The love mentioned in the Hadith refers to inordinate love. On account of the obsession for wealth, the person does not discriminate between permissible and impermissible. He doesn\u2019t spend his wealth on others through compulsory and optional charities, and in some instances the person does not even spend on himself. His only concern is to increase whatever he possesses. This is such a mentality which brings nothing but misery and anxiety to a person in this world as well as the next.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hazrat Mufti Ebrahim Salejee (Daamat Barakaatuhu) mentioned: When wealth becomes a person\u2019s goal and primary objective then unfortunately he adopts any and every means possible to acquire it, regardless of whether it is halaal or haraam. Rasulullah (sallahu \u2018alaihi wasallam) mentioned: \u201cLove of the world is the root of all evil.\u201d The love mentioned in &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":13291,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-mufti-ebrahim-salejee","category-malfoozaat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13290"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13292,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13290\/revisions\/13292"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}