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Getting rich quickly using ambiguous means, is this a legitimate thing?

Mystic Nature painting, made by artist Barbara Stamegna

Is the pursuit of wealth and prosperity at any cost by taking shortcuts and ambiguous means a right thing?

Since we see people who quickly become wealthy without making any effort, we happen to wonder what is the point of getting busy and working hard if you can achieve the same without making any effort. But what is behind the quick gain that avoids discrimination between the means used to achieve that gain? Is it permissible to use ambiguous means to get rich quickly? Let’s see the answer…


Getting rich quickly using ambiguous means, is this a legitimate thing?


“Things obtained easily without any effort as if by a miracle, and with the help of the devil who promotes this, end in nothingness and bring only harm. Works must spring from labor, whether manual or intellectual, but there must be an active part of the one who then has the benefit, and there cannot be a merely passive position, not even one of request, without doing anything.”