RICHES

Arabic daulah ( دولة‎ ), Qurʾān lix. 7, māl ( مال‎ ), kas̤ratu ʾl-māl ( كثرة المال‎ ), “Great wealth.” Muḥammad is related to have said, “Whoever desires the world and its riches in a lawful manner, in order to withhold himself from begging, or to provide a livelihood for his family, or to be kind to his neighbours, will appear before God in the Last Day with his face as bright as a full moon. But whoever seeks the riches of the world for the sake of ostentation, will appear before God in his anger. ( Mishkāt , book xxii. ch. xxiii.) In the Qurʾān it is said:— Sūrah xviii. 44 : “Wealth ( māl ) and children are an adornment of this world, but enduring good works are better with thy Lord as a recompense, and better as a hope.” Sūrah viii. 28 : “Know that your wealth and your children are but a temptation.” In the III rd Sūrah, 12, 13 , the po e ions of this world are contrasted with those of the world to come in the following language: “Seemly unto men is a life of lusts, of women, and children, and hoarded talents of gold and silver, and of horses well-bred, and cattle, and tilth:—that is the provision for the life of this world; but God, with Him is the best resort. Say, ‘But shall we tell you of a better thing than this?’ For those who fear are gardens with their Lord, beneath which rivers flow; they shall dwell therein for aye, and pure wives and grace from God; the Lord looks on His servants, who say, ‘Lord, we believe; pardon Thou our sins and keep us from the torment of the fire,’—upon the patient, the truthful, the devout, and those who ask for pardon at the dawn.” RIKĀZ ( ركاز‎ ). Treasures buried in the earth, particularly those treasures which have been buried at some remote period. In the Hidāyah , the word rikāz includes kanz , “treasure,” or other property buried in the earth, and maʿdin , “mines.” Such treasures are subject to a zakāt of a fifth. (Hamilton’s Hidāyah , vol. i. p. 39.)