The Lure of Money

by Mir Mubarak

I was talking to a friend last night and she mentioned how she was so envious of her rich relatives. My mind brought me back to the night when I saw the reaction of a friend when she saw this guy driving a big sports car. She went like aarrrgghhhhhhhh!!!!!!!! I was shocked. Does money have control over these people? I thought we were supposed to control money, not money control us.

Money is the main ideology and the strongest temptation for women. It is the most strongest, unfortunately, as mentioned by many of my friends from the proof all around us. Well it is true that the people with money are generally nice but dont they think how these people will act if they do not have money? Money has been their life, they live with it, they breathe with it, it means everything to them. What can they do without it? Only God knows if He decides to take it away from them someday.

it is true that money is important to us. but I do not allow money to influence my judgements or decisions. So you're wealthy, doesnt mean that everything you say is gold. So you're rich, doesnt mean that whatever you do is right. Unfortunately few people think like me. Sadly most worship people with money who worship money themselves. People are judged by how much money they have and how they spend it in the interests of others. Sadly this world has come to this point.

Dont people ever think how the wealthy would be in their interests if they had not the money, if they were not as well to do as at present? They wouldnt be as generous as they are, they might not be as nice as they are, they would just be like the others, the uniformity will be there. As much a we like to ignore the prejudice, it is always there because there is and there will always be worshippers of money. How will these people be?

Invented first by the Romans, handled and controlled by the Jews, money controls all except the most pious, the Sufis, the religious scholars, the truth seekers or even the most sensible who regard money in a different mentality.

How money shapes people will be the most invaluable lesson I'll ever see first hand. Thank you God for giving me a chance to see it as a spectator, not as a presenter; for giving me a chance to see it not as a worshipper of money but in command of it.

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Money is a singular thing. It ranks with love as man's greatest source of joy. And with death as his greatest source of anxiety. Over all history it has oppressed nearly all people in one of two ways: either it has been abundant and very unreliable, or reliable and very scarce. John Kenneth Galbraith (1908-), prominent Canadian-American economist

Money has never made man happy, nor will it. There is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants. Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)

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