best, We will ease him toward ease. But as for him who is stingy and considers himself self-sufficient, and denies the best, We will ease him toward hardship. And his wealth will not avail him when he falls. Indeed, [incumbent] upon Us is guidance. And indeed, to Us belongs the hereafter and the first [life]. So, I have warned you of a Fire which is blazing, in which none shall burn except the most wretched, who denied and turned away. But the most righteous shall be removed from it, who gives his wealth to purify himself, and not for any favor to be repaid, but seeking the Face of his Lord the Most High. And he shall surely be satisfied. »¹

It is as if you have not heard what we related from Baqir al-'Ilm (The Splitter of Knowledge) — Exalted Glory — that he said: 'Whomever Allah grants action according to his religion, he increases in nearness to us; and whomever increases in greed for this world and love for it, he increases in naught but distance from Allah.'

The youth said to him: "I only thésaurized the treasures and amassed the hoards out of fear of a chronic illness or a persistent calamity, so that in such a time I would not be in need of any human." His father replied: "You have harbored a bad opinion of Allah. It is as if you have not heard:

From the Messenger of Allah — Exalted Glory — that he said: 'Whosoever maintains a good opinion of Allah shall possess a restful heart and a sound conviction.'

And in another narration from Abu Sa'id al-Khudri, he said: The Messenger of Allah — Exalted Glory — said: 'My Lord communed with me, and among His communions to me was that He said: O Muhammad, I am as My believing servant thinks of Me; if he thinks well of Me, I drive it [goodness] toward him and cause it to flow through his hands. If he comes to Me during a misfortune, or to