Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Qur’anic Reflections Sadaqa Best Side Business

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

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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

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