Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Charity Week at the South Annual Dinner
AI: Summary ©
AI: Transcript ©
hamdu Lillahi Rabbil Alameen wa salatu salam ala say there's more
serene what? Nikki was Safi or Baraka was seldom at the Sleeman
cathedral and
Illa Yomi Deen beret gone Allahu Tabata Cava Terada Philip Quran
emoji they will for carnal Hamid may Ucrete Allah Coloradan Hasina
for your daughter, Eva hula who are the elephant Cathy Iran. So
the Kola WinAVI.
Difference. Nice to be in your midst. today. It's always nice to
be with students because I still consider myself a student, though.
Unfortunately, I'm not. I study when I have to prepare to teach.
So I tried to take on new subjects which I have to study, then I have
to teach them the next day forces you to study them. Because it's
difficult to go and formally go and sit somewhere to study though
I'd love to go out and do that again.
What I want to mention today, just some very basic points, I know
you're here to celebrate Mashallah. All of your charity,
all of your collecting, and may Allah subhanaw taala accept that.
Because really, you're making a big difference in sha Allah to a
lot of people by the everything that you're doing, the balance of
the world has to be maintained. The Nirvana the system of Allah
subhanho wa Taala is that those people who have gift to those who
those who do not have, there's a variety in this world.
There are different types of people in this world, some who
have and some who have who don't have some who have more, and some
who have less. So there's a difference even in the Quran,
Allah subhanaw taala talks about in the Masada cottolin, for Cara
evil Messiah keen.
He talks about the faqeer and the miskeen. Generally, the idea of a
faqeer or a miskeen is really those who are in need and who are
poor.
But then why mentioned two words when the Quran doesn't contain
superfluous language, everything has a significance. So one of them
means somebody who has absolutely nothing. Zero are not even their
daily bread.
And the other one is the one who has some, but not enough to
consider them to be wealthy by at any level. So who we would say we
can still give them zakah, they may have 100 pounds. Today, we
could say that the idea of that is about 250 to 300 pounds, somebody
who has less than that is called a 14 and somebody who has absolutely
nothing is called a miskeen. So the idea is that there's always
going to be a discrepancy in the world. Even the communists
couldn't really sort that out. I mean,
China is supposed to be a socialist, communist country, but
there's a massive difference in terms of what what each individual
person actually owns. And what they have, there's a massive
discrepancy, it's just the nature of the world that gives an
opportunity to those who have to give to others. And that means
rectify that balance to a certain degree, and to be rewarded by
that's why there are huge verses in the Quran over and over again,
if you look at certain Hadith for example, which is in the 27 Jews,
the last Surah, the last chapter of the 27 Jews, you'll actually
find the same thing that it's got a major discussion about giving
Amada Latin Hakuna visa vie de la, Ramallah Kamala tunefab Hakuna
visa villa, why don't you guys, why don't you spend in the path of
Allah.
So this is something I've thought about recently, from several years
of experience, it just dawned on me one day.
And I want to share that with you, because some of you are still
students, maybe most of you, others may have just graduated
recently and are just helping out and probably going to start your
first jobs or maybe doing your first jobs.
Money, an additional income, I mean, even the primary income is a
concern for all of us is how do we earn? But for those who actually
have a job already, maybe? Or who are going to have a main job,
what's the best side job that you can have for additional income?
What is the best way to make an additional income on the side?
So I can give you some ideas you can drive an Uber
what else is that you can maybe do some property dabbling on the side
but you're gonna have to have a lot of capital for that. Right? So
that's not really a first side job or a side job at all. What else
can you do on the side? Somebody give me some bright ideas helps
the rest of us
best side job to make to increase your wealth.
You do YouTube,
you'd have to be very lucky with that one. That's not a very
guaranteed return, you'll have to probably hit a million mark before
you start monetizing that. Right? Anything else?
Deliveroo Okay, Mashallah. Okay, you know what, let me make it easy
for you, it's going to be much more simple than Deliveroo.
You don't have to carry that thing on your back and on your bike, and
you just don't have to do that. No, Uber nothing. And I'll tell
you this from experience, it's very simple. You give sadaqa
you're giving charity and I'm not joking about I'm not I'm not
making this up. I'm not raising funds here. I'm not trying to make
you pay for something that I've got, you know, some, some project
of mine or anybody else for that matter. I'm telling this
genuinely, this is not a job. This is not a hype. I'm serious about
this. It doesn't matter what you give, but if you give regularly
there are several things that happen with this. There are
several things that happen with this. Number one,
if you look in the past many of the wealthy Sahaba among the 10
that have been given the glad tidings of paradise. Those are
like after the four main Cleves the second highest group of
companions, Radi Allahu on whom were the 10 that were given the
glad tidings of Paradise which actually include the first four
leaves after that you've got Adorama live now.
Sadiq Nabi Waqas, Zubaydah milawa, our Tonka ignore Obaidullah
sightedness eight, right you've got all of those among these 10
four of them were probably billionaires if not millionaires.
I mean they were definitely millionaires multi right but they
were probably billionaires. Anybody know who we're speaking
about?
Who are these four
one was a smile did not have fun everybody knows that because
mashallah the amount of when you hear what he used to give is
amazing. I'll give you all the camels we all the all the animals
that you need for you know, all the horses, all the equipment, I
mean, some huge amounts is talking about then the other three, so
he's among the four caliphs as well. The other three, Abdurrahman
mouth are the Allah Juan Zubaydah,
and perhaps Abner Obaidullah, they were multimillionaires. I don't
even want to talk about the amounts. Abdul Rahman if now was
just a natural businessman,
natural businessman, he when he migrated from Makkah boo Corolla
to Madina, Munawwara what the Prophet sallallahu did is he took
the mic me graters, and one by one he linked them up he made a
brother he made he linked them up with a person from Medina from the
one of the unsolved. So he created what they call them wahat in
Arabic, a brotherly relationship just so that they can help each
other out of drama now for the Ummah was paired with one of the
very wealthy and Saudis from Madina Munawwara. So that
unserved, he said to him, Okay, tell me what you want, you can
have half of my assets, you can have half of this, you can have
half of that. He said, You know what, I don't need anything of
yours. Just tell me where the market is. He goes to the markets
early in the morning and he buys a camel
on credit.
It was for maybe 500 their hands, whatever it is right? He buys a
camel on credit. The camel came with a rope around his neck. He
took the rope off, and he sold the camel immediately for cash at the
same price. He just profited immediately, right, the profit was
the rope. Right? Ropes cost money in those especially in those
money. Look, today, we have a lot of disposables. But in those days,
all of this costs money. By doing this, at the end of the day, he
actually brought back supplies to contribute to the house on his
first day
teaches you huge amounts of lessons that you don't have to
start big. You can start very small with no, you can where you
can sleep at night because you don't owe anybody money. This
whole idea where you study business and so on. It's all about
securing from investors huge amounts of money decorating the
whole place, and then being worried for the next you know, so
long am I going to really profit from this venture or not always
start small. That's what I've always done. It's always benefited
me. Abdurrahman even though his business grew to such a degree
that once I Aisha Radi Allahu anha is sitting in a home and suddenly
she hears this huge commotion. She goes outside, and she sees that
this dust rising as though an army has come in, you know, when
numerous animals have come in, you know, galloping inside, it was the
trade caravan of Abdurrahman without returning from one of its
trades, huge amounts.
But one thing very interesting of the secret of his trade of his
baraka and blessing in his trade, you can try hard behind your
Amazon venture, or you're good luck with the YouTube venture,
right? You can try as hard as you want. But if you don't have
blessing from Allah for the right thing, then even if you make a lot
of money, you you won't see much of it, you won't be able to be
satisfied with it. The biographer says the way he increased his
wealth is far above rubies. Sadaqa, he nurtured his wealth
through giving in charity, Allah loves it because you know, we have
a dimension of Allah in our life. We're not just giving for nothing
we're giving because Allah wants us to give to help the poor. So
when we do that Allah gives back anything we give in the path of
Allah is accommodates, it's actually a loan to Allah, you
can't expect Allah to default on his loan, he's gonna give us back.
Now when you give him the path of Allah, you're doing several other
things, aside from just gaining blessing in your wealth,
you are protecting your wealth, because every penny that we
receive, some of it is going to be corrupt. Some of it is going to be
polluted, because from which system is it coming through, I
mean, our whole
economy system, the way it's based in the West is based on rebar and
so on. I mean, I'm not going to go into that right now. Right, no one
to make life harder than it is, right. But there's a lot of ways
to where you earn your money from some parts of it may be
problematic. So of course, we give zakat zakat when you give,
essentially in a hadith of Sahih Muslim, it says that Zakat is
wasI, who am while in us, it is the dirt of the wealth of people.
So you're removing that when you remove that you're purifying
yourself, if you've got a basket of apples you bought, you know,
six, seven apples from Asda or Costco or wherever, and you've put
them there, and then one of them is slightly rotten, slightly going
off, it's got a brown mark on it. If you leave that apple with the
rest what happens? The others slowly pick up that same problem
and the others become rotten very easily. If you separate that apple
out, the others will last longer. That's the same thing with money,
you've got haram wealth in your money in your even if it's a
partial amount, it's going to corrupt the rest of you, which
means you won't be satisfied with it. He won't give you even if
you've got a lot. I was in Athens recently for a historical trip.
The Greek really nice people marshal the Greek
taxi chauffeur that we had, he told us his own incident and his
his Christian background. He says that there was a time when he
started making as much money in a day that his mother was making in
three months, because this was when he was bringing in illegal
somebody from over the border into Greece. But he says though I was
making that much money at that time, I would hardly ever see that
money, it would just go as fast as it came. Whereas the money I'm
working on hard work has lawful money. That just gives you a lot
more. So you purify your wealth. You purify yourself because we
it's removing miserliness now tell it tell me here. When we look at
people, when people have different traits, different innate traits
were born differently. Some of us are naturally stingy, like myself,
like naturally, I find it difficult to just spend freely for
no reason, or for even reasons. Sometimes, that's just my
challenge. Some of us are generally naturally open handed.
And you don't have to be Muslim or non Muslim. This is just human
beings, you will see people with no faith, very generous, you might
have a friend like this, you may be like this yourself, but some of
us are just very stingy. Some people get angry quickly, while
others, you can walk all over them, and they still won't get
angry. Right? They can be abused, their parents will be abused,
their families abused, and they just don't do anything. They just
can't care less. They're just playing on their computer or
whatever it is, right? So you get different types of people.
What is our responsibility? Would we would I be punished for just
being naturally stingy, I won't be punished for that. But what I will
be punished for is if I do not spend, where I'm obliged to spend
either from a religious perspective, or from a human
common decency perspective, which basically means if I'm spending,
if I don't spend where Allah told me to spend, which is a cut, or
recommended the spend, which is sadaqa, then I'm going that's
going to be bad for me. That's blameworthiness for me, if I don't
spend where I'm supposed to spend because others are spending, I
should do the same. I am receiving gifts from my neighbors, but I
don't give anything back. My children receive EDI money. Right
during the EDI. I don't know if you guys still get EDI, right.
Your children
receive Edie money, but you don't give to anybody because you say
Brothers has a bigger so you don't give to anybody else. When you go
to weddings, you don't give them gifts. Because you say, man,
there's no obligation and it's a bit, it's not sooner or something
like that. I mean, that's just an excuse, I'm saying. And when it's
your wedding you want mashallah you want to, you know, you want
that to sort your honeymoon out and everything, right, and maybe
pay the rent for the next year and buy a new house or whatever it is.
These are just
natural excuses. For example, you go to a restaurant, with your
friends, right? And when it comes time to paying, you go to wash
your hands.
Or you go to the toilet, how many times that you're gonna get away
from doing that, that's where you don't spend in common decency.
That means there's a problem in the hearts, right, this innate
challenge that Allah has placed in us, we have not been able to open
it up, we have not been able to deal with it. So
giving, giving in charity is hugely beneficial. Mashallah, the
whoever the person that started that started this whole idea, and
it's mashallah done throughout the, you know, I mean, many
universities in various different countries, can you imagine the
reward that person is getting, I forget who it was, but whoever it
is, because he in the Sharia, he tells us that whoever starts a new
Munson assume that and has Sanditon, whoever starts a new
way, a new method of something, a new contribution to something,
anybody who does that, now after you by looking at you and do or
looking at what you've done, what you've contributed, if they say I
could do the same thing, you will be rewarded from that as well
without their reward being decreased in any way. Now, even
after 100 years, if this charity continues, inshallah Well, I don't
see any reason not to, even after 200 years, and so on. The initial
person who started this idea, as long as he was sincere, he will be
rewarded from this.
It's an investment like no other.
But let's not just keep it to Charity Week. I'm sure we have
some really bright minds here. Right, some hugely talented
individuals here. And even if you don't think yourself talented,
seriously, this is not about whether somebody's told you that,
hey, you got a lot of talent, or you're a genius, or you can change
the world. It's about whether you want to do it, whether I want to
do it, whether somehow I get into my mind that let me do something
as well. See, because there are two types of people generally.
Even the smartest crooks, you know, those who tap who hack into
British Airways and take people's credit card details and so on.
That person is not some idiot, that guy could have had a PhD. You
may even have one actually, right? That person could have had a PhD
from university, just the intellect is being used in the
wrong direction. That's what they call Manson. Asuna, 10. Satan.
Whoever started a bad sunnah. A bad way. Right? And he gets the
sin, not of just his deeds, but anybody that follows that deeds,
and gets an idea because of that deed. If I see in my community,
there's an old man, there was an old man who just started
collecting for the Rohingya.
Right, so somebody else thought, why can I do the same thing? This
old man can do it? Why can I do it as well,
I'll get the reward of I'll get the reward of collecting, but that
man who I who inspired me, he gets my reward as well. And he doesn't
even know that. That's the amazing thing. You don't even know you've
just planted the seed, Allah will take into consideration. So that's
the concept of following in goodness, and contributing in
goodness, there's a lot of easy ways to do that. It's just we need
to know how we need the cheat sheets. And I'm trying to provide
us with that because Inshallah, I mean, I've got a selfish motive
here. That I'm telling you that and if this is where you're
hearing this, from that you're going to start a good trend
Inshallah, then hopefully, I'll get rewarded for it as well. Can
you see how comprehensive This is? Can you see how easy it is? That
if we just one of you, and Insha Allah, most of you, if not all of
you will do something. Right with what you've done, what you've
studied, you. Don't ask your children stop asking your children
what they're going to be. How many of you were asked by your parents
when they were young? What do you want to be? How many of you are
told that you know, asked what you want to be? Oh, there you go.
Michelle, let's majority of us. Let's stop asking that question.
So what questions should we ask
Let us ask the question.
My son, my daughter, whatever it is, you find your nephew, whoever
it is, how would you like to make a change in the world? How would
you like to make people's lives better?
Ask those questions. seriously ask those questions. I just want to be
a doctor.
I just want to be, they started the other day. Okay, that's fine
is great. But you say, how do you want to make a change? Okay, how
do you want to make a change? Then you can be a doctor, engineer,
whatever else that you want to be. But start with that question. It's
a different question. frames of reference are very important.
frames of reference are very important that your language that
you employ, psychologically has an impact. So let's use higher
language, more profound language and terms. So you're thinking
you're having our children, our next generation, think at a higher
level. And I want to ask that same question here, because this is not
a question just to children. This is a question to anybody, how
would where would you like to see yourself in five years, and then
10 years, and then 20 years, I believe this, this idea of 510 and
20, to see where you want to be, really helps to get ourselves
positioned, oriented, and focused? Because sometimes we get caught up
in the moment. We most of us are followers. So we may have got
caught, caught up with our friends, wasting a lot of time
that we know that at the back of our minds, but we can't get out of
it. So let us think where do I want to see myself in? Where do I
see myself in five years, then in 10 years, and then in 20 years,
you will see Inshallah, that we will make a massive change in the
way we do things will probably stop wasting time unless we want
to see ourselves wasting time in five years. Because most of us
don't. I've started I'm doing this, I'm doing that. Where do I
want to see myself? What do I want to be after all of the the glitter
has faded? Where do I want to be? Do I still want to continue? What
what do I want to see, that really makes a big difference, it really
woke me up. It really helped me to think and strategize in this way
of 510 and 20 years, so inshallah that will be beneficial to you. So
we ask Allah subhanahu wa taala to reward us all for the work, great
work that you have done, to reward all of those that we've been
inspired by,
to be to reward all of those that we have been inspired by because
they deserve it. And in Islam, we have this quantum system of this
movement as I mentioned, and Allah give us the Tofik Allah give us
baraka and blessing in our side job. And the easiest way going
back to the initial point I made you know what the easiest way is
to give charity every month. Who knows what's the easiest way to do
it? Because you generally we generally are going to forget
what's the easiest way to give it
anybody got any bright ideas?
Direct direct debit, I'm serious that that works. You probably
because I thought okay, I'm gonna try to give this much every month
and then you forget you don't have the right cash you don't you know,
credit card, whatever. You just put a direct debit on. I mean
students are not making much money, right? I mean students
generally unless mashallah, you've got a big, I don't know, estates
or something left over by somebody or some rich father or whatever
cases, students don't generally make too much money you're gonna
have loans to pay off you've probably got huge depths on your
head already. Even then, believe me even then. If it's even just
five pounds direct debits every month 10 pounds 20 pounds. One of
the scholars huge scholar Mufti Takis father. Both the people must
have heard of Mufti Taqi with money one of the great scholars of
Pakistan internationally, his father, Mufti Sheffy, with money.
This was his practice, and I think it's very difficult. He says, any
money that I receive as an income that I worked for as an income, he
takes out 10% of that. And he gives that in he used to give that
in charity. And he said any money that I receive
from a gift or anything else like that, I take 20% out. Now I guess
he didn't have tax to pay. Right? You know, this many percentage so
I think 10 and 20 sounds a lot but five to 10 might be possible.
Right? If not that at least what we said for us because we've been
collecting from others but how are we going to benefit ourselves?
That's why I said get a direct debit whether that be to mend
OMA welfare trust UW T Islamic Relief let's not forget, right? Or
any of these five pound here, five pound here, five pound here. i
That's what I've done five pound 10 pound here, you know different
places. So your money's going
different parts, whatever you can do, you can add every year more if
you want to. But believe me, you will see your money. You will see
blessing in your money, you will be protected from calamities
because that's another thing. The Prophet salallahu Salam is coming
I'm going to finish off by the time you get here, the Prophet
sallallahu sallam said, A sadaqa two to three overdub Rob sadaqa it
comes down to anger of Allah. And another thing he said is that it
removes and repels a bad death. So on the our, our last moments,
inshallah would be La ilaha illallah you want to be protected
from a bad moment. You want to be protected from calamity predicted
from the Wrath of Allah blessing in your money, start giving some
sadaqa we've taken it from others now let's inshallah for ourselves
and we ask Allah for acceptance just like a lock here. Baraka
Luffy come and please keep us in your doors as well. Jazak Allah