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friends, dato and tansri,
materialism is not a product of the 20th century.
it was age old.
even as early as the 7th century arabia, materialism was already deep seated, as the conversation following ayat 8 showed.
disbelief in the alghaiba is also not the result of the explosion of science.
it is as old as time itself.
it was rampant in nabi's time.
' we live , eat , copulate,enjoy and then we die...and that would be the end of our time.'
13 centuries before richard dawkins and christopher hichen, this credo was already there.
dawkins, hawkings and hichen and the likes of them, if ever they think they are very clever, can forget about it.
they are not original!
materialists who disbelieve are , from time immemorial, usually from the corporate and the ruling elites of societies of that time..
qaruns, hamans, abu jahl, abu lahab , abu suffians etc and etc
abdul rahman bin awf was an elite of his time.
a top corporate gun with billionaire mentality.
he was however a well known sahabat from day 1.
precisely, the 8th person to enter islam.
he was par excellence at 'wheels and deals'.
even when he was in madinah, he had deals with one makkan associate who looked after his business interest in makkah.
this kind of 'millionaire ' brain already exist during nabi's time.
he was par excellence at 'wheels and deals'.
even when he was in madinah, he had deals with one makkan associate who looked after his business interest in makkah.
this kind of 'millionaire ' brain already exist during nabi's time.
there is a well known tradition about abdul rahman bin awf which i like to recall offhand here.
this was many years after nabi's[ pbuh] demise.
abdul rahman bin awf's massive 700 camel caravan from sham entered madinah one day.
it was so long that one end of his caravan to the other covered the whole length of madina.
one can imagine the din and the noise it make.
sayeditina aisyha looked out of her private appartment and asked, ' who's caravan is this?', or something to that effect.
her servant told her it belong to abdulrahman bin awf.
' go, tell him that the mother of of the believers sends her regard and tell him that i heard the prophet [pbuh] mentioned that abdul rahman bin awf will enter paradise leaping...'
on receiving the news from the mother of believers, abdul rahman sat down and sob unconsolably.....
he immediately asked his men to distribute all the wealth from the caravan as zakat and sedekah........
' abdul rahman bin awf wants to enter paradise like other close associates of nabi, standing, like the rest of the sahabat!!!'
we move on surah as saba', ayat 8 to 11, with mufti waseem khan of tobago/trinidad
dr nik
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