يَوْمَ لَا يَنفَعُ مَالٌۭ وَلَا بَنُونَ
Yawma laa yanfa'u maalunw wa laa banoon
The Day when there will not benefit [anyone] wealth or children
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26:88Ayah 1227
6 ayahs in Ash-Shu'araa are strongly about the Day of Judgment. This is one of them.
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of which day God exalted be He says the following the day when neither wealth nor children will avail anyone
Related Hadiths
The Prophet (ﷺ) said, "The Hour (Day of Judgment) will not be established till your wealth increases so
much so that one will be worried, for no one will accept his Zakat and the person to whom he will
give it will reply, 'I am not in need of it.' "
The Last Hour will not come till wealth is abundant and overflowing, so much so that the owner of the property will think as to who will accept Sadaqa from him, and a person would be called to accept Sadaqa and he would say: I do not need it.
“The
wealthiest will be the lowest on the Day of Resurrection,
except
those who do such and such with their money, and earn it from
good
sources.”
“There
is no rich man or poor man but he will wish on the Day of
Resurrection that he had been given the bare minimum of provision.”
The Last Hour will not come before wealth becomes abundant and overflowing, so much so that a man takes Zakat out of his property and cannot find anyone to accept it from him and till the land of Arabia reverts to meadows and rivers.
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