Surah Al Munafiqun Tafseer

The Importance of not being too concerned with the Matters of the Worldly Life, and being Charitable before Death

Allah says,

يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ امَنُوا لَاا تُلْهِكُمْ أَمْوَالُكُمْ وَلَاا أَوْلَاادُكُمْ عَن ذِكْرِ اللَّهِ

O you who believe! Let not your properties or your children divert you from the remembrance of Allah.

Allah the Exalted orders His faithful servants to remember Him frequently and to refrain from being distracted from His remembrance by indulging in their properties and children excessively.

وَمَن يَفْعَلْ ذَلِكَ فَأُوْلَيِكَ هُمُ الْخَاسِرُونَ

And whosoever does that, then they are the losers.

Allah informs them that those who engage in this life, its delights and attributes and were busied from the obedience and remembrance of Allah, for which they were created, will be among the losers. They will lose themselves and their families on the Day of Resurrection.

Allah encourages the believers to spend in His cause,

وَأَنفِقُوا مِن مَّا رَزَقْنَاكُم مِّن قَبْلِ أَن يَأْتِيَ أَحَدَكُمُ الْمَوْتُ

فَيَقُولَ رَبِّ لَوْلَا أَخَّرْتَنِي إِلَى أَجَلٍ قَرِيبٍ فَأَصَّدَّقَ وَأَكُن مِّنَ الصَّالِحِينَ