“Wealth is not a matter of intelligence, it is a matter of inspiration”. Jim Rhon
This is the second post in the series HOW TO GET THE MOST OUT OF LIFE. In this post I intend to talk about how it is important for us to search for wealth in the right process and how we should do with it.
Life without wealth is like a soup without salt. Wealth is not something necessary that one must have in order to live. If you don't have wealth, you can live you life. But that life will not be quite interesting to you. The importance of wealth is that it makes your life so easy. Life is loaded with luxurious equipments that your heart must desire. If you are wealthy, you can afford them and quench the thirst of your heart. If you are not wealthy, you will not be able to afford them and because you don't have the wherewithal your mind will continue to admire them thereby leaving you in a state of perpetual desirability without satisfaction.
As a man with a mission to get the maximum benefits of this life, you need to have a goal to accumulate wealth. At this juncture, the goal is the primary thing and all other things are secondary. After having the goal, you are then required to learn the best legal ways to accumulate the wealth that you want. It is difficult I know. But it is possible. Because I have seen many people in my life that went form rags to riches. Nobody can discourage me from trying to accumulate wealth. And no matter how knowledgeable he is, he can't convince me that being wealthy is bad even if he has reason as many as the sand in this world.
Let me use this opportunity to provide you with a dose of comparative analysis which will make you you to automatically shut out the wrong comparison that mostly poor people make. You probably have heard people saying “ Money is not the source of happiness”. Now pay attention! This is where the train of wealth left many people at the station. You don't have to hear something and suddenly agree with it without thinking it over That is why CRITICAL thinking is needed for a functional life in general and a financial life in particular. Money may not be the source of happiness but money can make you happy. In fact, if you know how to use your money, it will be the real source of happiness in this life and the next. If you are doubting , may be you need to be reminded of the wealthy companion of prophet Muhammad (s.a.w), Abdurrahaman Bin Auf.
Additionally the danger of the statement “ Money is not the source of happiness” is that it do more harm than good because it is discouraging and demoralizing. What people who believe in this statement don't realize is that, if money or wealth cannot make you happy, Can poverty make you happy? In between the two i.e WEALTH and POVERTY, which one is capable of making you happy? Don't tell me the answer, keep it for yourself for I am sure it would be of help one day.
The advantage of accumulating wealth does not stay with the man only, it surpass individual confines. It resides in sharing one's wealth with those that are not opportuned to be wealthy.
If you are wealthy and you make it upon yourself to share it with humanity, you will bring a lot of smiles into the lips of thousands people. You will help many people who doesn't previously have the opportunity to be educated. You will provide medical assistance to many sick men and women. Your wealth will be useful to the people in an innumerable ways. In Islam, anybody who makes his fellow Muslim brother happy, God will make him happy in ways he never imagined possible.
Therefore, wealth is not to be kept in the vaults. Wealth is not to be transformed into valuables and hidden in the shelf, Wealth is not to be restricted to you and your family only. Wealth is to be shared between you, your family, your relatives, neighbours, needy and other people in the society. This is the only way you can reap the immense benefits of wealth. For if you know that you have impacted lives, you must be happy because you have let your wealth loose and it reaches the hands of the servants of God.
Accumulating riches and sharing it with others freely is one of the ways to get the most out of your precious life. ACCUMULATE AND SHARE!
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