‘SUCCESS: THE FACT of getting or achieving wealth, respect, or fame,’ is one of the first things you will see if you do a Google search for success.
Do the same in a Qur’an search, and you will get something very different.
The 40 or so ayat that mention success cover the following themes.
Being on guidance from Allah ﷻ and the Qur’an. Having taqwa and sincere intentions. Being grateful. Remembering Allah. Repentance. Patience. Chastity. Keeping amanah. Giving zakah and helping the poor and needy. Humility in and timely prayer. Keeping duty to Allah. Calling to Islam, enjoining good and forbidding evil. Striving in His cause with wealth and life. Steadfastness against the enemy. Obeying Allah and His Messenger ﷺ. Doing righteous deeds. Honouring and helping the Messenger ﷺ.
Also, those who avoid vain/ill talk, riba, intoxicants, gambling, greed and taking as friends those who oppose Allah and His Messenger ﷺ.
Also successful are those whose scale of good deeds will be heavy. The party of Allah. The dwellers of Jannah.
How remarkable is it that people pay money to go on courses to learn how to be successful? Yet everything that is needed is in our homes, at our fingertips, in the Qur’an.
It is worth spending some time in such an exercise with the children. It connects us to the Qur’an. It counters today’s materialistic ideas. It builds the right thinking. It sets the standards. It shapes and motivates our actions.
أُو۟لَـٰٓئِكَ عَلَىٰ هُدًى مِّن رَّبِّهِمْ ۖ وَأُو۟لَـٰٓئِكَ هُمُ ٱلْمُفْلِحُونَ
‘Those are upon [right] guidance from their Lord, and it is those who are successful.’ (al Baqarah 5)
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