Own Your Wealth – Abdal Hakim Murad – Ramadan Moments 2

smilla hamdulillah or salat wa salamu ala rasulina well early he was soft be he or Manuela allahumma barik honor fischeri cm the Holy Prophet says sallallahu alayhi wa sallam locally in Cerny word in means Arab that Amanda and yacon Allah who word yen well I am loafer who Allah to Robin he said sallallahu alayhi wa sallam if a man were to have a whole valley full of gold he would want to have a second Valley full of gold but at the end only dust will fill his mouth another of our deep problems as human beings is this mobile mal his love of wealth it's no coincidence that some of the very first verses of the Holy Quran to be revealed were condom Nations of this human sleepy acquisition of stuff a futile exercise because the more we have the more we tend to want and her call to care for rivalry in worldly increase has distracted you there's three important lessons in those two words not just the problematic nature of wanting worldly the worldly increase but the fact that we compete with each other mmm this guy's got a billion I don't have two billion or I can't sleep well and then the fact that al hakam it distracts you what there's a little more macabre until you go go to the graves all of these people at the very last moment of their life are still checking the footsie and the Dow Jones just to see what's happening to their fortune they can't see the dark mouth of death yawning in front of them waiting to to swallow them whole but this is how we are but at the end only dust will fill up now this Holy Prophet says salallahu alayhi wa sallam hmm this is a hadith Qudsi Yamina adam o son of man hello come in Malika in occulta for F Nate Oh abyss defer oblate outer so dr. B he for an Veidt the son of Adam do you own any of your wealth except for something which you end up eating and you pass it on pass it away it goes through you there's no longer yours you destroy it or you wear it and you wear it out or you give it in sadaqa and make it eternal this is the irony we think if I give ten pounds to the Cambridge Muslim College I'll be ten pounds poorer nope actually you're poorer if you hold on to it because it's not going to go with you into the grave but the asada cut the investments deposits in the eternal bank this de gelatin lent aboard this transaction which never diminishes this he said this account which is the account of the era the believer knows this and with an expression of pain perhaps he produces his zakat when he can as much as he can and this sadaqa and his Leela and he's a cattle fitter and these things but there's an element of pain which is foolish because he's actually liable to lose these things he may not even enjoy them himself if he walks around his life with all of these coins jingling in his pocket what should he do put them in the bank but not the bank of this corporation or that corporation that may or may not in the current reckless world of casino capital and financial 3/4 go on hmm but instead the only bank which once the deposit has been made where the Bissman lat will keep it for eternity and will yield dividends eternally that's intelligence that's wisdom but unfortunately even though ours is a world of overflowing wealth mr. Fogg little math gigantic cornucopias of money and money breeding money thanks to the river system river upon river upon river and derivatives and futures and all of these very strange instruments which human ingenuity concoct in order to Kandra money out of money that you haven't even borrowed yet it's a very strange magical world so much money and yet so much poverty so many rich people so many poor people but the stock table the polarization of wealth between rich and poor gets greater and greater and greater and we know that this brings the divine anger because it's an injustice and having two billion doesn't feel very differently practiced having 1 billion or even 1 million for most purposes but for the poor having $200 is very different to having $100 but still they get poorer and the rich get richer and the world is kind of shaking as a result there's one of the major imbalances of our time and so this condemnation how chaotic our thought was from the very beginning of Revelation but he's absolutely appropriate to our time now and Islam is the religion this is give and give and give the zakat and the sadaqa or the Nephele obligations and the optional forms of giving again in a game a child is born there's the archaic ax somebody dies there is the inheritance which can't go to just one person but gets distributed out again particularly to the young this is our system give give give we are a people who are not assad Tipene who give and bakka is related to SIDS glitches a word which means sincerity truthfulness being real this is the nature of the holy prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam and the the Econo edward in this who is the most generous of people well kena Edward M area Colonel fee Ramadan and was at his most generous in the month of Ramadhan well at a saloon aji sallallahu alayhi wasallam edward will be hurry Minoru hail masala the holy prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam was more generous and Swift in giving doing good then the wind let loose in other words is there's no he said there's no calculation he just gives and gives and gives because he's not afraid of poverty so that's the moral aspect but there's also the human aspect and one of those challenging aspects of prophecy is that the holy prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam prayed to be with the messer keen my second who had really poor the destitute there to have nothing yeah a lot a job altar Allah muhammadun ki firfer he used to pray make the food for the family of Muhammad enough for today that would panic us we think oh maybe we'll run out in three months time I've got a cushion the bank says this I've got these financial projections but tomorrow that's inconceivable and he used to pray what relief is over at in misurkin resurrect nee resurrect me in the company of the destitute not the super-rich not the sleek Hollywood actors and the so-called elites who are our role models and who everybody wants to gossip about but the poor the asylum seekers the refugees the homeless the people sleeping rough the broken hearted as allies and then one kasi reticle Ubu home with the brokenhearted the holy prophet salallahu alaihe said I wish to be resurrected with those people and this is challenging because we like to have those coins jingling in our pocket there's a story that says that when the first gold and silver coin were minted created when somebody first had this idea lease lae lae lae lana raised them and put them to his eyes and kissed them and said man AHA buck Wilma for who are a birdie ha ha whoever loves you is in reality my slave my servant so the wealth that the believer has which can be legitimate halal wealth yum did corn be unwell in were benign God blesses you with wealth and children it can be a blessing has to be on the basis of the lack of the heart attachment to those things it's 4 sub akan it's for supporting the family it's for supporting neighbors it's for giving iftar to people who can't afford it it's for hospitality and this is the Edward will be hurry men are riffing Marcela which is the quality of the holy prophet sallallahu alayhi assalam more generous in giving what is good then the winds let loose such a beautiful kind of desert image just free unrestrained giving why because there is peace in the heart and there is no machete in luck fear of poverty an extraordinary state so the coins that are in our pockets the numbers that are in our bank balances are to be accounted for there it said that you take them out only when you have taken them out of their source fee Haley what in Furcal her fee Hockley you take them in a way that is hollow and you dispense with them again in the way that represents what is the weather the rights of human beings in other words they are part of our service so in this month this time when there is less to spend are unnecessary wealth on when we have to walk past cafes and so forth even if they were open and we can't do anything about it and at the end of the day perhaps there's more coins jangling in our pockets than they were before this is the month of giving this is the month of Almer solidarity this is the month of remembering neighbors of thinking of family members who we haven't checked up on for a long time this is the time of Selita rahim this is the time of connecting family ties Fattah coli lolita sir and lola be he well our ham fear god concerning whom you question each other and the ties of kinship importance in our religion how are the old doing particularly at present make sure you know make sure they feel attended to that they feel noticed that somebody cares because this the age of wealth has become the age of loneliness as well but as this not the omer of loneliness also the Ulmer of solidarity all martin wahida a single ummah and we are to be an exemplary community to show how human beings can and should be together in solidarity in cooperation in sharing not in hoarding but in sharing in giving we are to be open handed people so may allah subhanaw taala in this blessed month when we have fewer worldly temptations to distract us and when perhaps we are thinking of higher things and we have tasted in worship and in the quran something that is sweeter and truer and more nourishing to our hearts than any physical pleasure or experience of status could ever be when we have been shown an alternative reminded of what we truly are and of our homeland to which we are called may he make us people of generosity of people who are soft hearted towards the poor people who do not just pay lip service to the Sunnah but actually walk in the footsteps of the chosen one sallallahu alayhi wasallam by loving the poor by supporting the poor by seeking them out and by as it were putting our money where our mouths might be by actually being people of generosity of jeweled in this blessed month so may allah subhanaw taala open our hearts to this and grant us the the the blessings of ramadan in its blessed nature for the poor as people of giving people who are not misers people were open hearted and open handed an example to an increasingly lonely and selfish and self-centred age barakallahu fecal-oral men come to Kabul Allah see a macomb wersal mo alaikum warahmatullah

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Published: Fri May 01 2020