Luxury is the sister of elegance and grace

Luxury is always contrasted with Economy. The Economy here does not mean money. It means a proper balance in the income and outcome of money

We have often listened to and read about luxury or luxuries but, do we know, what is luxury?

How luxury was first created? What was the world’s first luxury? Who invented or discovered luxury?

Who was the first to enjoy the luxury? Why do most people want and desire the luxuries to be a part of their life?

Is the love for luxury worth it? Do we have to hate the luxuries in life and also the people who desire those luxuries?

 Should we love and strive for luxuries? How do we get to know who is eligible and deserving of luxuries and who is not?

The most important question is how we would achieve luxuries in our lives and which luxuries suit us?

So basically luxury is closely related to dignity. Luxury is the sister of elegance and grace.

Charm is the brother of luxury. Significance and enchantment are the parents of luxury.

The main reason why everybody wants to attain and achieve luxury and desire for it is because of its family tree.

The one who has luxury would be associated with the family members and friends of luxury.

The problem is everybody wants to have and enjoy everything. But the truth is everybody cannot get everything.

Certain things are meant for us and only for us and nobody else can have them.

Maybe we can keep those things temporarily which are not made for us but though we cannot have them.

Here an Arab ancient proverb can be perfectly cited which says that:

“The things which are meant for you will be yours even if they are embedded between two giant mountains and the things which are not meant for you will never be yours even if they reside between your two lips.”

Luxuries were always present in the minds of humans. They just reinvented and modified them.

We are the sons and daughters of Adam-a.s and Bibi Hawa-a.s, they were the first humans.

We have the same origin. They both came from the most luxurious garden in this universe.

They were born in luxuries. They enjoyed and felt luxuries from that garden.

The enchanting trees and fragrance, the delicious food and pure water, the beauty and music, the waving and flattering rivers of milk and honey.

That was an extreme and pure luxury.

Those instincts are saved into our unconscious memories and we are striving for them on this Earth unconsciously.

We do not know how and why we love and desire luxuries but we do. We all do this even though we do not say this desire to our self but we all want these luxuries.

It is not bad to love and desire luxuries. It is also not bad to strive for them.

The bad thing is the choice of ways and the selfish, cruel, brutal, and heart-throbbing methodologies people follow to attain them.

Luxuries are not bad themselves but the haste of attaining them is bad and the excess of them is bad and the greed for more and the selfish behaviors are bad.

The only way to become deserving of luxuries and to respect them and other humans is the hard work we do to attain them.

When we work hard with patience in the right way to get a luxury then we know its value and worth.

Our choice of luxuries can be different from each other. But the methods to get them must be the same.

They must be full of patience and confidence in doing right.

Luxury is always contrasted with Economy. The Economy here does not mean money.

It means a proper balance in the income and outcome of money. It means thrift and prudence in life.

This is the favorite prudence of prudent people. For prudent people, the economy is their luxury.

They do only what they want and they do that for themselves. They love themselves first.

But in this love for themselves, they do not hate others. They do not perceive them as cheap.

They do the right things at the correct time and in a precise way. They do not blame others for their mistakes they own them wholeheartedly.

They do not hate luxurious things and lifestyles also they do not fall in the love of luxuries, drowning themselves in blindness.

They earn their luxuries with patience. Human beings are the crown creatures and they all know this fact but do not believe it.

They do not apply this fact to their lives.

They work hard and strive for the luxuries of their own choice. They can live with and without luxuries.

They are not dependent on the luxuries. They know that their reality lies in the significance of working hard.

They have tasted a rough life as well as luxurious life.

Hazrat Umar (R.A) said about luxuries that “these are not long-lasting so get used to a tough life.”

Getting used to a rough life does not mean that we have to live without ease our whole life.

It simply means that we should keep working hard as flowing water never emits a pungent odor.

Flowing water remains pure and serene. Whereas luxuries or more precisely saying excess luxury make people lazy potatoes.

Luxuries damage the will of hard work. They damage the eagerness to keep going. The excess of luxury makes life boring and colorless.

The beauty of life lies in the rise and as well as fall. Only success and only failures are useless and misery.

The richest and the poorest are the same. They do not want anything and they do not know what to desire.

That is why the most favorite class of writers is the middle class. They are not poor and they are not rich.

They are somewhat between the high and low. They work hard. They love, they desire and they enjoy the beauty of life in their ups and downs.

They have thrilling lives. They all reflect the same vibes.

The conclusion is that the luxuries are not bad. They are just mere instruments to produce eagerness and beauty in our lives.

The pure way to live is to live with prudence. The economy in the life keeps the life going in the right direction through the correct road which only leads to success, sooner or later.

Written by Bint-e-Hawa