Islam
prohibited the individual from luxury, considered it a sin, and He warned the
luxurious ones with torture.
Allah
(swt)
said:
"And those of the left hand: What of those of
the left hand? In scorching wind and scalding water, and shadow of black smoke.
Neither cool nor refreshing. For they were, before that, indulged in sinful
luxury." [Al-Waqi'a:
41-45]
i.e.
they were arrogant, who do what they wish.
Allah
(swt)
also said:
"Till when We grasp the (town's) luxurious
ones with punishment, behold! They started to supplicate."
[Al-Mu'minun: 64]
The
luxurious ones here means the arrogant tyrants.
Allah
(swt)
said also:
"And We sent not unto any township a warner,
but its luxurious ones declared: Lo! We are disbelievers in that which you
bring to us." [Saba'a: 34]
The
luxurious ones are those who are haughty (arrogant) towards the believers
because of their high level of wealth and children.
Allah
(swt)
said:
"The wrongdoers followed that by which they
were made surrounded with luxury."
[Hud: 116]
What
is meant by those who were surrounded with luxury is that they turned towards
their whims i.e. followed their whims.
Allah
(swt)
said:
"And when We would destroy a township We send
commandment to its tyrant folk (luxurious ones) and afterward, they commit abomination
therein." [Al-Isra: 16]
What
is meant by tyrant folk is their tyrants who live at ease.
Allah
(swt)
said:
"We made them luxurious in the worldly
life" [Al-Mu'minun:
33]
that
is We made them insist on their tyranny out of their arrogance i.e. We made
them arrogant.
Luxury
(Taraf)
linguistically means vanity and arrogance due to living a life of ease and
comfort. When we say wealth made somebody luxurious, we mean it made him
arrogant and corrupted him. That the person became luxurious means that he
insisted on tyranny. He also transgressed and became haughty.
Therefore
the luxury (Taraf)
which the Qur'an condemned and Allah (swt) prohibited and
considered a sin is the Taraf that linguistically means haughtiness and
arrogance due to ease of living, but not the ease of living itself. Therefore
it is wrong to interpret Taraf
as enjoying the wealth and ease of living by that which Allah (swt)
provided, because ease of living and enjoying the provision of Allah are not
condemned by Shari'ah.
Allah
(swt)
said:
"Say: Who has forbidden the adornment of Allah
which He has brought for His servants and the good things of His
provision?" [Al-A'raf: 32]
At-Tirmidhi
narrated from Abdullah ibn Amr who said:
'The Prophet (saw) said: "Allah likes to see the signs
of His favour (bounties) on His servant.'"
i.e.
He loves for His servants to enjoy His favour and enjoy the good things He has
provided for him.
But
Allah (swt)
hates the haughtiness, arrogance
and transgression that may result from a life of ease. So Allah (swt)
hates the life of ease if it produced haughtiness, transgression, arrogance and tyranny.
Since a life of ease and comfort by the abundant wealth could lead some people to
arrogance, tyranny and haughtiness;
that is it creates Taraf
in them, Islam prohibited that type of luxury. So Islam prevented
corruption if it resulted from the abundance of wealth and children, making
people arrogant and tyrannical. Islam prohibited that strongly.
So
when it is said that Taraf is
Haram it does not
mean the life
of ease is Haram,
it rather means that arrogance which results from the easy use of wealth
is Haram, as Taraf would mean
linguistically, and as
luxury (Taraf)
would mean from the verses of the Qur'an.
The
above is an excerpt from the book "Economic System in Islam" by Hizb
ut-Tahrir.
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