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The word dunya (world) is constantly used in poetry to signify "fortune" or "the fortune of this world."
The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume III Anonymous 1879
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If a person, at all times, is busy with preparations for the hereafter, trying at all times to gain Allah's pleasure and places every law of Shariah above his personal gains, then you may take it that the "dunya" is outside this person's heart, and that his heart is free from "dunya's love".
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If being poor makes one negligent of Allah, such poverty is also "dunya".
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But when this "dunya" has entered the heart and the love for these worldly entities becomes uppermost over Allah's love, then this "dunya" becomes a means towards his destruction because the heart has been created by Allah for Himself.
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This "dunya" will be a means towards his destruction.
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Moulana Rumi (RA.) says: "Actually, 'dunya' means being neglectful of Allah's commands.
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The lowest level of existence is called al-dunya fem. gender of al-adna which literally means ‘the lowest’.
Archive 2008-07-01 mkhalfan@gmail.com 2008
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Qiyama therefore is a much higher reality of the dunya than barzakh.
A COSMOLOGICAL REALITY OVERLOOKED mkhalfan@gmail.com 2008
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The lowest level of existence is called al-dunya fem. gender of al-adna which literally means ‘the lowest’.
A COSMOLOGICAL REALITY OVERLOOKED mkhalfan@gmail.com 2008
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Qiyama therefore is a much higher reality of the dunya than barzakh.
Archive 2008-07-01 mkhalfan@gmail.com 2008
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