Insatiable Desire

It is related by Abdullah bin Abbas that the Apostle of God said: “Even if a man possesses two fields and two forests full of worldly goods, he will like to have a third, and man’s belly will get filled up only with earth [i.e., his insatiable appetite forwealthwillend only in the grave], and God shows compassion to the bondsmanwho turns his face towards Him.”Bukhari and MuslimCommentary:- Excessive desire for wealth is a common human failing to the extent that if a man’s fields andforests are overflowing with riches he will still not be satisfied and go onwanting an increase in them till the last moment of his life.Fondness for wealth ends only with death. There is a special favour of theLord on those who make Him, and not the material world, the object of their adoration. God grants them contentment and they lead a happy and peaceful life here in this world too.