Don’t be a Slave to Your Desires

desire must remain within certain boundaries. Even good desires are useful only in a limited manner. Right desires are helpful for the development of your character. But bad desires are detrimental to your personality. If you follow your bad desires, they can ruin your future to the extent that you cannot ever recover from their effects. You must therefore live a life that is reasonbased and not desire-based. Never judge a desire for its own sake: always judge it in terms of the result of its fulfilment. This result is the only criterion by which it may be determined whether a desire is good or bad for your life. Desire cannot be eliminated, but it can certainly be controlled. Don’t become a victim of your desires. Prove to be well in control of your desires. The Money Culture Relative to money, there are two cultures prevailing in our society—money for the sake of man and man for the sake of money. The Quran rejects the concept of man for the sake of money, subscribing to the other concept that money is for the sake of man. In the chapter Al-Takathur (Greed for More and More) the Quran has this to say: Greed for more and more distracted you [from God] till you reached the grave. (102: 1-2)