The Qur'an already reports this reasoning: “We have more wealth and children, and we will not be punished.”
The answer comes at once: “My Lord extends provision for whom He wills, and restricts it.”
It is not your wealth or your children that bring you near to Us,
but the one who believes and does righteous deeds.
The Prophet ﷺ said: “Allah does not look at your forms or your wealth,”
“but He looks at your hearts and your deeds.”
The car, the house, the clothes: none of it enters the scale Allah looks at.
One day a man passed by. The Prophet ﷺ asked the man sitting with him: “What do you think of this man?”
“One of the nobles. If he asks for a hand in marriage, he is given it. If he intercedes, he is heard.”
Then a poor Muslim passed, and the man said of him: “If he proposes, he is refused. If he speaks, no one listens.”
The Prophet ﷺ said of the poor man: “This one is better than an earthful of the like of that one.”
Poverty alone did not raise him, and wealth alone lowers no one. What weighs is the heart and the deeds.
Why not plenty for everyone? “If Allah had extended provision for His servants, they would have transgressed.”
“But He sends it down in the measure He wills.” He knows what each heart can carry.
And provision is not only money: a calm heart, health, a righteous child are provision too.
The Prophet ﷺ said: “Successful is the one who submitted, was given enough, and whom Allah made content.”
Whoever does righteousness, male or female, while a believer,
We will surely make them live a good life.
And the reverse (20:124): “Whoever turns away from My remembrance will have a narrow life.”
The good life is not promised to the richest. It is promised to the believer who acts.
On Resurrection Day, the man who lived most at ease in this world, among the people of the Fire, is dipped in it once.
He is asked: “Did you ever see any good?” He says: “No, by Allah, my Lord.”
And the most miserable in this world, among the people of Paradise, is dipped once into Paradise.
“Did you ever know hardship?” “No, by Allah, my Lord. Never.”
Some people disobey Allah and grow rich. You pray, and your provision stays small.
So does wealth tell you who Allah loves?
Your rank is not written on your bank account. It is in your heart and your deeds.
Tonight, write down three kinds of provision you have that are not money, and thank Allah for each.