This article highlights lessons from the Quran that can be instrumental in guiding us to maintain our spiritual sanity and connection with Allah, especially when things seem to be going right in our lives. For many, life may seem in order when one is blessed with wealth, children, health, and respect from those around us. Such worldly blessings can create the illusion of one living in a virtual paradise of sorts. However, such a comfort zone can blur people’s visions and deviate them from the right path.
Although many of us know that Quran has ample wisdom to help us navigate out of the turbulence in our lives, there is wisdom for those as well who get distracted by their wealth and other blessings. Based on the wisdom in the Quran, the following are some of the mistakes that we should be wary of making when blessed with many bounties.
MISTAKE # 1: PRESUMING THAT SUCCESS IS PREDICTABLE:
There are times when one snaps on to the wheels of success and attains a perfect momentum. Success becomes predictable and always in sight. We see this in the businessmen who become confident of their deals, writers who are sure of creating their next best sellers, rulers who start thinking that they are invincible, and so on.
In Surah Al-Kahf, Allah provides us an example of a conversation between two people, one of whom Allah had blessed with a lot of wealth. He was quite proud about his possessions and considered it his paradise. The man used to say to himself (as mentioned in the Quran):
“Then he entered his “Paradise”, while he was unjust to himself, and said, “I don’t think that this wealth of mine will ever perish.”
Quran (Surah Al-Kahf, Verse 35)
It is during such moments of absolute confidence that we should remind ourselves of Allah’s power to bring things to a halt in the blink of an eye. We can observe this in the many examples where rulers lost their kingdoms, businessmen who became paupers, and so on. Allah tells us in the Quran:
“And Our Commandment is but one, as the twinkling of an eye.”
Quran (Surah Al-Qamar, Verse 50)
So, let us be wary of becoming too confident with our comfort zones because regardless of what (and how much) we have been blessed to date, the next moment’s success is dependent on Allah’s will alone.