The Holy Quran 64:15 — Surah At-Taghabun

Arabic text

إِنَّمَآ أَمْوَٰلُكُمْ وَأَوْلَـٰدُكُمْ فِتْنَةٌ ۚ وَٱللَّهُ عِندَهُۥٓ أَجْرٌ عَظِيمٌ

Translation

Your wealth and children are merely a test (to ascertain whether you will allow them to distract you from worshipping Allaah). (When such times of test arrive, remember that) Great rewards (wage) are with Allaah (for those who fulfil their duties to Allaah despite the distractions that their wealth and children present).

Tafsir (excerpt) — Tafsir Usmani

Wealth and children are a trial: that is, Almighty Allah, by giving wealth and children, tests you: who, entangled in these perishable and transient things, will forget the lasting and everlasting blessings of the Hereafter, and who has made these provisions a store for his Hereafter and preferred the great reward there to the pleasures and familiar…

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