Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Qur’anic Reflections Sadaqa Best Side Business
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The speaker discusses various verses and examples of people claiming to have the potential to increase their chances of success in the future, including successful businesses, successful personalities, and even successful individuals. They emphasize the importance of giving back to the Muslim community and offer advice on how to do so. The speaker also emphasizes the benefits of sada 49% in helping individuals achieve wealth and success, including helping them to reap the benefits of working in the future. The importance of spending time in the path of Islam to see potential for one's success is also emphasized. Finally, the speaker offers a free trial for a course on Islam, emphasizing the importance of giving in return for everything as a natural rhythm.
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Salam alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatu
Ramadan Mubarak to everybody we start this with some verses of the
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Well love was zero 90. So we started with these verses. And
these are just two verses from a range of verses. There's some
sutras which some of you could probably say one of the most
prominent themes in the is the sadaqa theme, these verses about
sadaqa. And the reason for the relevance of this today, because
Ramadan is the time of great generosity. Allah subhanho wa
Taala seems to be at his Most Generous during the month of
Ramadan. This is the most generous time it seems Allah subhanho wa
Taala has opened the doors of paradise closed up the doors of
hellfire and raised every fourth prayer 70 times and every Knuffle
prayer to afford and then the abundance that you feel in the
world at this time. Probably the most spending that takes place for
the Muslim community is probably in Ramadan, there there is
probably 1000s
millions that are basically been given to the poor being fed
to the hungry, and people are donating. And that's what's going
on right now. That's the Muslim community. That's who we are. And
I'm here to tell you, I'm assuming that everybody enjoys a side
business, a lot of people need to have a side business in which they
hope to make a bit of extra income. It's kind of everybody's
thing.
So what should you do as a side business? I think, how about Uber?
Right? Uber, a lot of people that's kind of an easy one, you
just sign up and you make sure your cars kind of decent. And they
probably check it out. And then after that you get a bit of a
license. And maybe you have to, I'm not sure if you have to about
what kind of license, but a lot of people like to do Uber. But
believe me, I'm telling you, I've never done Uber in my life. Right?
There's another side business, which is so much easier.
But it's one that kind of defies belief. And it's not within you
can say the normal scientific
realm of things. It's more the spiritual side of things, but it's
tried and tested.
Right? It's tried and tested until you don't do it, you won't be able
to find out. This is the difficulty here. There are
numerous stories about this numerous anecdotes, numerous
experiences. And there's no doubt about this at all. Because Allah
subhanaw taala promises this in the Quran. And that side business
is sadaqa. If you want more, if you really want to benefit, it
doesn't matter how poor or wealthy you are, this will make a
difference to you. Because Allah subhanaw taala promises it. The
first verse that I quoted, which is from Surah Baqarah, verse 245,
Allah says that who is the who is it that's willing to give Allah
subhanho wa Taala a goodly loan. So the sadaqa that we give is
actually seen as a loan by Allah subhanaw taala, that you're
lending that money. And when you lend a decent person, a dignified
individual money, you expect to get it back. In fact, that's
probably who you want to lend your money to, so that you can actually
get it back. And they give you back. Well, in South Africa, we're
told that when you give back sadaqa, make sure you do personal
other, which basically means that you give back in a good way. So
for example, if somebody if I owe somebody a loan, and it's come due
now, I should not then say, You know what, come next week, come in
the middle of the night, coming some awkward time, or go and get
it from that guy, or go and get it from him. And just make it
difficult, because this is a natural thing in human beings to
then dilly dally and delay in which in Arabic is called Marshall
McLuhan, you don't. That's what the statement is. It's a hadith
that the delaying of a person who has meaning who's considered
wealthy enough to repay the loan, if he delays for no reason, then
that's an oppression. That's considered an oppression. So when
you expect to get when you give something to Allah subhanaw taala
you expect to return and you expect a very, very good return.
And Allah actually tells you that what he is going to give you back.
So he says when I give you the return is going to be for you die
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times it's going to be multiplied Allah subhanaw taala in the next
verse, verse 261, assorted Bacara Allah says that those who spend
their wealth in the path of Allah is gamma 30 habit, it's like a
seed that you are planting, even a pound, like let's just say simply
a pound. And then you can multiply that by the pounds that you may
want to give, if you give seven spikes, or whichever organization
you're giving that to, it's like a seed. That seed has its DNA and
everything to grow into whatever it's been designed for. And in
this case, it's been designed, it's come with the rehab button
under the sub escena bill. Right, it will grow seven years of corn,
seven years, and that's not it. Now, each I don't know if you've
ever I mean, you've seen a corn on a cob and you may have seen the
way it grows on its plant. So when you uncover it and you take out
the corn on its cob, it says every one of them has to have has now
100 seeds so that's 700 there from one seed from what you're one
pound or for however much you want to give and you can multiply that
that's what Allah subhanaw taala is promising
thereafter that in order to mana Africa and Allah says that if this
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saw you mean really interesting when you look at this, what is the
one thing that that people would like to have come back to the
world for so that they can do more of so they can reap the benefits
of it in the Hereafter. This is in hindsight, by the way, in
retrospect, this is not while they're in the world, after
they've departed this world they've gone finished the time and
this one is up, they go to the hereafter and Subhan Allah, Allah
is saying spend of that which We have provided you
before that before death comes to one of you. And then he says, you
could give me some time. So at death, they're saying, Give me
some more time give me some respite.
So that I can give sadaqa and I can be of the righteous ones, out
of everything else. Like I can go and pray more, I can fast more I
can go more hedge, I want to do more sadaqa they notice at that
time they figure it out at this time what the benefit is, of how
potential this is. So we have we're explaining this from the
perspective of worldly gain that you are giving a loan to Allah you
get it back multiple returns, but also from the hereafter, that
there's a huge benefit there in the hereafter. Allah subhanaw
taala in certain Hadith, verse 18 says, You will die for the home
what a home as you carry every multiply for them and they get a
huge reward a noble reward for it. In fact, if you look at certain
Hadith, much of it is about spending in the path of Allah Lama
Allah Comilla tune in if you submit Allah, what's wrong with
you? Why is it that you can't spend in the path of Allah, Allah
literally chides people, like why don't you spend in the path of
Allah. And there's a number of other verses in our short time we
don't have what I want to mention, is based on this, there's a hadith
which says mana kasama Dohmen sadaqa Torani has related wealth
can never decrease by giving in sadaqa that's such a unscientific
so called unscientific thing to say that I'm literally decreasing
my wealth by giving this money, I'm not seeing any return for it
straight away, maybe, right. And you're saying that wealth does not
decrease by sadaqa?
How does that make sense, but you see, we are people Alladhina Umino
want to believe we are people who believe in the unseen, we believe
in this kind of a system of Allah subhanho wa taala. And there's
numerous examples of this. I just give you one example. A friend of
mine, he's a doctor in America, and in America, doctors make a
decent amount of money. And this guy Ma sha Allah He spends a lot
of money in the path of Allah, that Ramadan, he paid for a
sponsorship at white thread Institute, the Institute we run
for to sponsor a move the students this was to Ramadan Zico, if I
remember correctly,
he did this either on one of the odd nights, or maybe it was the
27th tonight. He had also and I didn't know this, he had also
spent in some local local charities there in America in
Chicago, right. And he then sends me a message and him and I still
got that WhatsApp message. A few days later, maybe two days later,
he sends me a message. And he said Sheikh I just want to share
something with you. I literally depleted my balance. By giving
away so much money in charity in Ramadan, I depleted
My balance, right? This wasn't I just gave 10% or 5% begrudgingly,
I depleted I didn't have much money left.
And I got worried. Because, you know, you need a bit of balance.
And he says, I got worried. I said Tolkien, Allah, Allah did this for
Allah is that literally either that same day or the next day, I
can't remember now I'd have to consult. He said, I got a call.
He's a doctor. He said, I got a call from from a particular
company that wanted me for consultation. I got a
consultation, a side business side business is not his main job. He's
got his main occupation. So as a side business, that consultation,
and they were going to give me much more than what I have given
pretty immediate, pretty immediate. There's numerous
stories to this now, what is it that would stop us from spending?
I think it's a number of things. Number one, we're just naturally
miserly. And that's absolutely possible. I was like that. I think
I'm still like that, right? Natural miserliness, you just
don't feel like you can give because you don't see the benefit.
You're not getting anything in return. We're selfish.
We don't understand why. You know, when you're selfish, when you want
a return for everything, you find it very difficult to spend,
because what are you getting in return? You don't see it straight
away. But you do see it once you start giving it but you have to
give it first. It's a weird one, where you have to spend first,
then you'll see the blessing, then you will want to give what then is
easy to give. Now, the reason is that, you know, it's a natural
stinginess that runs in the family. There's a there's a guy he
says in the olden times, he says that he was in the desert. It was
really hungry. There's nothing there, no hotels, and finally
comes up with one a 10th of some Bedouin. And it's just the woman
who was there. Right? So he said, Do you have anything? He said,
this isn't a she said, This is not a hotel. Right? We're not here to
pass away, we just about surviving, etcetera, etcetera. And
she didn't give him anything. So he sat down, he just had no
strength to carry on.
Some hours later, the husband comes back from work. He's 40,
wherever he was, and he saw him, he says, What are you doing? He
said, Well, you know, I don't have any money. He went into his, he
went and slaughtered a goat for this guy. And he said to his wife,
why didn't you do that? He said, we're not here. This is not a
hotel and everything. And then he fed him.
Some days later, again, he's in a similar situation. And there is
another tent. And
the woman saw him, the wife saw him and she said, Oh, you're your
traveller. Let me feed you. And without saying anything, she fed
him.
Some hours later, the husband comes home. And he got very angry.
He said, whose meat is this? Where did you get this meat from? And
he's told his wife off, why are you feeding him?
He's a guest. So now this man says that, you know what, a few days
ago, I had a similar experience. Where was the total opposite? Such
in such a place? He said, Yes.
The woman from the first case is the sister of the guy in this
case, and he's married to the sister on the other side, right?
So it runs in the family sometimes.
And the only way to get out of it is to give and then you will see
that you will get back. And it's not just for us in this world to
get back. That's not I'm just that's a selfish idea. But
Hamdulillah we can have that. It's the best side business you want to
survive. That's what you do, and you need to start giving and
Ramadan is the best time to give because the rewards are even
further multiplied. Allah is so generous. Can you imagine Can you
imagine the amount of people that are being fed during this month
and being given and we're not taking part in this, and we're not
talking about just as a card here. That's your obligation which you
need to give anyway. That's the dirt of the wealth. Zakat is the
wasI who unworldliness the dirt of the wealth of people. We just need
to separate that 2.5% Anyway, that's a that's a major issue if
you don't do that, but we need to get beyond that. Right? I can't
believe that if somebody has 1000 pounds of zakat to give which
means that they owe that their assets are how much how much they
got that's 40,000 pounds. That's the assets can you not give
another 2000 pounds and then get it back by ALLAH SubhanA wa Tada
We ask Allah subhana wa Tada to make this easy for us to show us
the benefits remove our stinginess and our miserliness. And may Allah
subhanaw taala accept it from us, and thus we get the benefits of
what Allah subhanaw taala promises in the Quran. Welcome to Darwin
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