Whoever Is Saved From His Own Greed — Those Are the Successful

Verse: "Whoever is saved from his own greed — those are the successful." (59:9) — "Shuhh" (greed) is more intense than "bukhl" (miserliness) — miserliness is not giving, greed is intense craving with strong aversion to spending even what is obligatory. The Prophet ﷺ said: "Beware of greed — it destroyed those before you; it commanded them to miserliness and they were miserly, to severing ties and they severed, to immorality and they committed it." "Yuqa" = protected — protection from it is a divine gift, not human effort alone. This means one should supplicate: "O Allah save us from our own greed." Lesson: true success is in the heart's salvation from craving — not in abundance of possessions.