Psalms 62:10 Meaning Don’t Trust in Oppression

They wronged themselves: harm lands first on the one who does it The Quran comes back to this phrase whenever it describes people who take by force. Getting your way by leaning on someone weaker feels like strength, and it produces results, so it starts to look like solid ground. The damage settles inside the one who did it, in a heart that needs more force each time to feel safe.

Waraʿ: holding back from whatever you are not sure is clean Al-Ghazali treats this as plain care about where your money came from. Cash from a bent deal keeps up a low hum of unease, which most people quiet by spending faster. Passing up the doubtful piece costs something at the time, and it leaves a person able to look at what they own without flinching.

Ghurūr: being fooled by what looks like safety Al-Ghazali gave a whole book of the Revival to this. A padded account and a locked door do most of the work of feeling calm, and the calm gets credited to them without anyone deciding it should be. Nobody sits down and chooses to lean on their savings, which is why the leaning goes unexamined for years.

Zuhd: a loose hold on what you own Sufis measure this by the grip of the heart rather than the size of the house. Someone can own a great deal and stay free, and someone with almost nothing can spend the whole day guarding it. The measure is how much goes missing inside a person on the day the money does.

Tawakkul: putting your weight on God The word names where a person rests their weight when things turn uncertain. Plans still get made; a person still works, saves, locks up at night. The difference shows when the plans fall through, in whether the person still has ground under them.