God says
...and know that your worldly goods and your children are but a trial and a temptation,* and that with God there is a tremendous reward. -- Q.8:28
* Inasmuch as love of worldly goods and a desire to protect one’s family may lead a person to transgression (and thus to a betrayal of the moral values postulated in God’s message), and they are described as fitnah …. This reminder connects with verse 25 earlier : “beware of that temptation to evil which does not befall only those who are bent on denying the truth,” since acquisitiveness and a desire to confer benefits on one’s own family which often tempt an otherwise good person to offend against the right of his fellow-men. It is to be born in mind that, contrary to the NewTestament, the Qur’an does not postulate a contempt for worldly attachments as a pre-requisite of righteousness: it only demands of a man that he should not allow these attachments to deflect him from the pursuit of moral values.
Prophet said
1. “The son of Adam grows old but two things remain young in him : greed for wealth and hope for life.”-- H: Bukhari and Muslim. N: Anas.
2. “Had there been two mountains of wealth for the son of Adam he would have sought the third; and nothing but earth can fill up the belly of (such) son of Adam. And God returns to one who turns to Him penitently”– H: Bukhari and Muslim. N: Ibn Abbas.
