Sheikh
Muhammad ibn Salih al-Uthaimeen رحمه الله تعالى
said:
"The
more people increase in comfort and luxury and the more they open up before the
people [with the Dunya], the more evils will open up before them. It is comfort
and luxury that destroys a person. Because if a person was to concern himself
with comfort and luxury and providing enjoyment to his body, he will become
negligent of providing enjoyment to his heart, and his greatest worry will
become providing enjoyment to this body that is doomed to become worms and
rotten.
This
is the ordeal, and this is what has harmed people today. You can hardly find
anyone except that they say: "What is our palace? What is our car? What is
our furniture? What is our food?" Even those who study [Islaamic]
knowledge, some of them only study in order to gain rank or status to reach the
blessings of the Dunya. As if man was not created for a significant purpose.
The Dunya and its blessings are only a means, nothing more. We ask Allaah to
make us and you use it as a means.
Ibn
Taymiyyah رحمه الله تعالى said:
"A person should use money as he uses a donkey to
ride, and as he uses the toilet to relieve himself."