Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Sayyidina AbdurRahman ibn Awf A Role Model for the Wealthy
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The speakers discuss the importance of avoiding negative behavior and risk in wealth, with money and the Prophet sallavi as key themes. They emphasize the need to deal with wealth and avoid negative behavior, and emphasize the importance of being a master of one's wealth and being humble. The story also touches on the loss of the Prophet's mother and the decision of the Prophet's mother to allow their children to be buried.
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if we look around us,
any community,
even many families, you'll see that there's going to be a diverse
range of people
within within that, that community, or that family, or
collection of people that you're looking at. What you'll see among
them, as you'll see some people who are rich and wealthy, they've
been endowed with ability to spend,
or they've got mashallah a lot of wealth. And you'll have others who
are just about making it,
making the ends meet, they're just about doing okay. Then you've got
people who are strong within a community, then you've got the
people who are weak, yet you'll have others who are kind of
leaders, leadership positions, they lead people, they set trends,
they're pioneers, they're Mavericks, and you've got other
people who are followers,
then you'll have people who are ill and sick and yet you'll have
other people who are healthy. Now, such a diverse range of people,
which is the sample that you'll find pretty much anywhere and
everywhere in the world. How does such a group
live in this world and still be successful? Given the either the
strengths as something that you might consider to be a strength or
a weakness or a disability, or an inhibition or an obstacle? How
does person what should a person do?
Now,
if
whatever a person is,
however a person may be, if that person attaches themselves to
Allah subhanaw taala
becomes a firm believer in the Divine,
not just a religion of convenience or religion of birth, but rather
makes their faith theirs personalizes it, in a sense, makes
it work for them.
And really recognizes Allah subhanaw taala and takes on his
the color as Allah subhanaw taala says in the Quran, cyberdata
Allah, woman X and women Allah has similar symbol that Allah the
color of Allah, because color is something that permeates
everything. So the color in the o'clock in the conduct and
behavior, the color in in every aspect of one's life, who better
than Allah subhanaw taala to provide a trend, a color, a style,
a fashion methodology. Basically, that's what this means. But the
word used is color simple, something that covers everything
with with itself.
So if it's a wealthy person, and they're connected to Allah,
they'll fulfill the rights of the wealth that Allah has given them
while possibly enjoying their wealth as well. And they will
become a great person, a great being in the sight of Allah. And
most likely in the sight of people. If a person is poor, and
they connect themselves to Allah subhanaw taala then poverty will
no longer be a burden on them, they will be able to associate
themselves with the messenger sallallahu alayhi wasallam. If you
look at the way Rasulullah sallallahu isn't spent his life
and this was done voluntarily, despite millions coming through
his hands. Despite millions coming through his hands and him
receiving the booty and just giving it out. He decided to
remain of the poor. That's why the lowest inhabitant of Madina,
Munawwara the most poor poorest individually in Medina, I'm gonna
work could relate to him. They could relate to this king,
whatever they would see him as he's not a king. He was the
prophet. He was the leader, but they could relate to him, because
for many days on end, no fire would be kindled in his house to
cook any food he just eaten.
dates and water, so that that's what he preferred to do. So if
it's a poor person, then the poverty will no longer become a
burden on them once they have the cover the color of Allah subhanaw
taala. If it's a person who's healthy, they will know how to use
the health in the path of Allah subhanaw taala and thus become
successful in that sense. If a person is unhealthy, sick, going
through cancer treatment, whatever the best palliative care is that a
person becomes associated with Allah subhanaw taala, you can't
have anything better than that, then the patients will be able to
overcome any feeling of difficulty or burden or deficiency a person
may be feeling. So if a person is an honorable individual in the
community, then Allah subhanho wa taala, again, with Allah subhanho
wa taala. This will make him even more honorable in the real sense.
And if a person is not very respected in the community,
because he doesn't come from a very wealthy aristocratic family,
that's generally understood to be you know, of a certain stature in
certain societies. But when they know that they're with Allah
subhanaw taala, that will give them the strength that they need
in this world. Because at the end of the day, this world is just the
place we've been placed in with these different states that we
have. And really, we have to work for the hereafter if we're a pupil
of belief, that's what sets us apart from anybody who's not a
person of belief. So once we've said that, when you look at the
Sahaba, and this is the first of your series, you will actually
find that within the Sahaba, the companions are the Allahu anhu,
they were definitely not of one style at all. They were the
wealthy in there, they were the poor in there, and they were the
strong ones in there. They were the followers in there, they were
the leaders in that you had the same kind of cross section of any
community within the sahaba. But what we need to observe is how
they spent their time, so inshallah this series should be
very beneficial for us. Who I want to speak to speak about is Abdul
Rahman ignore how for the Allah one? Well, I find quite
fascinating, because I believe that in this time and age, when
we're living in this and enjoying this prosperity we have
Subhanallah you walk through Imperial College, and you actually
see the prosperity around you. The streets around the college
themselves. They reek of money Subhanallah they reek of
prosperity, the cars and everything and you come inside and
everything is brand spanking new, it looks like you're in Dubai.
Right? Subhanallah because that's what Dubai is an artificial world,
although I don't think London's as artificial is that certain degree,
but
the point is that we today Alhamdulillah this generation,
this current generation, we are mashallah enjoying a lot of
prosperity. You you each one of us probably sitting here with the
clothes that they want on their bodies. It's a choice you've made,
this is the clothing I want to buy, and you've been able to buy
it. I'm sure most of us are not sitting here with hand downs,
something we begrudgingly wearing, which we wouldn't want to really
be wearing, or that we've been forced to go to Primark to buy
something and you know, no offense to Primark shoppers, they actually
do quite well on Oxford Street.
You know what I'm talking about? Alhamdulillah, Allah has given us
a lot. It's just what how do we deal with this today? Because
money and wealth, and this disposable wealth being at your
disposal has an ability to intoxicate and there's no doubt
about that. There's nothing intrinsically wrong with wealth or
money. nothing intrinsically wrong, but hey, you know, get rid
of it. There's nothing wrong with that. It's just what it can do.
You know, when it comes together with a human being what it does,
just like you have the mother in law syndrome, where you have the
daughter in law separate, she's fine, perfect individual,
everybody's fine with her. You look at the mother in law
separately as an individual, perfect woman, you put them two
together, and suddenly something happens. Right? Not all the time.
But you know what I'm talking about. It's just an example. So
similarly, here, you got a lot of money, you put that with a human
being, and suddenly, something happens. You got a guy who's
driving, driving a Bentley, the other guy sees somebody, there's a
certain attitude they'll have on their face, and I'm not
stereotyping old Bentley drivers, by the way. But if you're driving
a Bentley, and you've got this smirk on your face when you're
like people are watching me, and you just want to see their
reaction, you're driving it like, you know, you want to see that at
the end of the day, you still have to drive it, right. You're seeing
the reaction, you feel you're better, you're superior, man,
those guys they have to walk they have to catch the bus. I can drive
around in this car. Same thing when it comes to the garments,
you're going around with a you know, an LV bag, a handbag and
everybody's going around at them. So what's the big deal today
anyway? Right? And everybody's really trying to get their LV bag
Subhanallah but everybody's got the same bag. You don't even look
different in your mail anymore. What's the big deal? When I think
becomes like so it's just like going Primark and buying
something. Right, sorry.
So regardless of what a person may be, it's really about the color
one takes on
And then it doesn't matter if you have lots of money. It's okay then
it doesn't matter. You got lots of influence. It won't spoil you. It
won't affect you. It won't. You won't abuse it. That's what's
really important. That's why what's very interesting in this
observation is that if you look at the 10, who've been grant
guaranteed Jana, the 10, who have been guaranteed Jana, the rest of
the Sahaba they also going to Jana, which is greatly hoped, the
it's it's greatly hope that they will all go in general because
Allah subhanaw taala said about them that Radi Allahu Anhu model
the one that they are pleased with Allah, Allah is pleased with them.
So when somebody is when Allah is pleased with somebody, they're
pretty much going to Jana. However, these 10 are those which
the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said that
he he mentioned in one instance in one sitting Abu Bakr, Phil general
morphogen northmont will generally fill Jana and he mentioned the
other six. Now to help me out to other six, the other six after the
four. You've got.
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Right. So these are the 10 that were in one gathering the profit
or loss I've seen that he took all of the names that he said Indiana,
Indiana, Indiana, Indiana, Indiana,
must have been something very significant. So I'm gonna hand it
off was one of those. And actually most of those they were friends of
mine are the Allahu Anhu. They were friends of Abu Bakr Siddiq
are the Allahu Anhu obika The alarm was responsible for at least
half of them becoming Muslim.
Because they were friends from before when Oba Christie declared
the Allahu Anhu was the first to accept from the adults. And he
convinced Orthomosaic no matter rune, he convinced Abdurrahman
mouth, he convinced Earthman Rwanda the Allahu Anhu. So obika
Siddiq are the alone is responsible for all of them, he
gets the reward all of them and that just makes him even greater.
Andromeda now for the Allahu Anhu he was actually his lineage
eventually meets with that of Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi
wasallam. And he's Acorah she, of course is from the Quraysh. His
his title was Abu Mohammed because one of his children's names are
probably Mohammed, his original name in Jaya Helia. He was born 10
years after a sudo allah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. 10
years younger than the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam his
original name was Abdullah Abdullah Umrah Abdul amor or Abdul
cada right the worship of amor or the slave of amor, the save of the
Kaaba. But when the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam when
he met the sort of loss of Allah, some he changed his name to Abdul
Rahman, which is the servant of the Most Merciful One, which is
one of the greatest names you can have Abdurrahman and Abdullah,
because it tells it's supposed to say who they are, in reality, the
servant of the Most Merciful One, not only is he of the 10, but he's
also of the group of six the committee of six formed by Amara,
the Allahu Anhu and Omar the others deathbed that the Holy the
next Khalifa has to be from among the six. So he was he was
considered to be and he was given some preferences in that, that if
there is a tie in terms of three people on this side, three people
on this side in the room, what are they alone did say take the side
in which Abdurrahman himself is on. Right, so, Amara, the Lord had
a lot of respect for Abdurrahman mouth, and on a number of critical
occasions. He was his main advisor, and we inshallah we'll
come to that. So what used to happen is that a worker Siddiq or
the Allahu Anhu used to meet up with Zubaydah Brunel our
who's also one of the 10 are smarter than I can tell her
ignore. Obey the law said Do not be workers, and Abdurahman even if
they used to meet together you know, like have a chat sit down
together, have a good time, they used to sit down and discuss on
one occasion, worker Siddiq, or the Allah one came up and said,
Look, this is a man Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam was
coming, he's proclaiming this that there's actually only one deity,
there's only one divine being there's only one one deity worthy
of worship. So they they accepted, they accepted because they really
trusted his friend workers to declare the Allah one as a person
who is very much liked. He had a really a sense of a very
compassionate, very soft demeanor, a great respect he held and he was
very soft, and people really love them. It's just somebody that you
could just relate to and he would walk into the room. It's like a
cool breeze just just came in, and suddenly you know, everybody looks
towards him. And
and it makes a big
difference, right? It makes a big difference. So what I wanted to
mention about the 10 just very important that's related to us is
that you've heard of Abu Huraira, the Allahu Anhu. And the US have
to suffer.
That's how we suffer, we're probably the poorest of the poor.
Now, despite all the struggle they went through, you don't see that
any of them were in the top 10.
Right, they're not in the top 10 in that hierarchy in the in the
actual MOBA genre.
However, in the top 10, who you do have is you have a few
millionaires. You have a few extremely wealthy people, and you
know who they will respond to the Allahu Anhu most people will know
about. Another one is Abdul Rahman. Now, another one is
Zubaydah. glowworm.
extremely wealthy, had a palace in Medina, I think it still exists,
and you had to hide nor obey the law was very wealthy as well. And
yet they were in the 10 Guaranteed Jana. So that means their wealth
did not become a barrier for them, despite the fact that wealth
generally is a barrier. But it doesn't have to be and this is
very important for us to understand that balance. That's
why I chose Abdul Rahman who now are the Allah one.
So this is his story is very interesting.
I've drawn him now who is obviously also one of those who
made the initial migration to Abyssinia first, then he was one
of the initial immigrants to Madina, Munawwara and as you know,
when the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam had all of these migrants
coming into Madina, Munawwara he took one of the immigrants and he
took one of the unsought and he he would pair them together, so they
would become like brothers in a sense, so that they could support
each other. Now,
as the Sahaba came in the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam would
pair them together.
Abdurrahman mouth, or the Allahu Anhu. He was paired with a very,
with one of the richest people in Madina Munawwara whose name was
Sally Roby. Sorry, Robbie, he was one of the wealthiest of the
answer. Now the promise of a lot isn't obvious. He is going to pair
people up together like minded, you know, Abdurrahman mouth and
all the other Sahaba older Maha Jeanine. Those who came and left
everything, they left their estate. This is a place where
their forefathers had been. There is not a place like England where
most of us are immigrants. And we you know, we've only got a history
that goes back 3050 years maybe. Right, so that's all we have. Now.
These are like, you know, the winces the Windsors or, you know
of Spencer's, you know that they have huge estates, they own a lot
of stuff. This is historical, they left everything. That's the
sacrifice of them or hygiene, they left everything. They came to
Madina Munawwara empty handed just basically with whatever they could
carry, you know, and that was a much because a lot of them had to
leave secretly. So now I'm gonna hold on now for the Allahu Anhu.
He's paired with Saudi Arabia, Saudi Arabia says to him in the UK
therell and Saudi Merlin I have the most wealth among the Ansara I
can the wealthiest for who Albania you are being a shutter on now
look at look at the sacrifice of the people of Makkah who just came
in, they just abandon everything. You know, your favorite, whatever
it was, it's all abandoned.
The people of Madina, Munawwara, whatever they had they saying,
I'll give you half
you take half of this, when he emerald Aton. I've also got two
wives. If you prefer one of them, I'll divorce her after she stays
in her, you know, finishes a waiting period, her ID, you can
get married to her as well made it as easy as possible.
Now,
Abdurrahman
instead of saying, Yep, give me that. Let's do that, and then
fight over which half to take BarakAllahu look, if he Alico
Malik, may Allah bless you in your wealth
and in your family don't need a soup Just tell me where the market
is just telling me where the market is. That's what I need to
know. I know what to do from there.
That day when he went out to the market he came back that same day,
same day with a bit of profit he came with some contribution
basically came back with some cheese and some summon a he came
back with some clarified butter. Ghee.
Right. He came back with some clarified butter and some cheese
so basically some food stuff. How did he How did he work this how
did he work his way up to become the millionaire that he was or the
billionaire? Whatever he was, it was crazy amount of wealth by the
way. How did he get there? That's the question we need to ask. See,
today, the way people work they take huge loans from the bank and
they get in debt straightaway. They don't know whether you're
gonna have success or not. Yes, you'll have your business
plants I've done this, I've consulted, I've done this, take 20
people on and then suddenly, you know, you've got an entity that
separate from you. It's a limited company. That's why it limits your
liability. You know, we've got this whole system that we have to
play with today. And subhanAllah. What he did was not this is what I
believe is true business. Anybody who wants to get in business, and
businesses are sooner as opposed to working for someone, businesses
assume that to be your own boss, right? So I would really encourage
business. Now, the way to do business is to make sure that you
can sleep at night without a doubt on your head, as far as possible.
And believe me from experience, I found that to be the best way you
have the most satisfaction, and you have great amount of Baraka in
that as well. Allah gives you because you are keeping your hopes
on Allah subhanaw taala not in anything else. This is what he
did. He purchased a camel on credit.
And now camels come with a with with a rope that you tied with. So
this is how we started and made it very simple. He bought a Camelon
credit. Then he went and sold a camel minus the string for the
same amount of money. So he just got profit of a string. Now in
those days spring sorry, string was worth some money today. Plus
SubhanAllah. Imam Muhammad, you know, humble relates. It's related
from armodafinil Humble that he ordered some butter from the
market. It came in a leaf. Now I've seen in India where they,
where they they used to actually,
in about 25 years ago, they used to actually sell ice cream on
leaves. So a small piece of leaf, you know they've got from the
woods, and they'll put the ice cream on, then they'll serve it to
you because there's no disposables. And today, the
disposables have made these countries very messy, because you
have all these plastic bags flying around all over the place before
it was all disposable. So now you understand why they just chucked
things out the window in a train. Because it's fine. It'll just
decompose outside. But now you can't do that with plastic bags
and plastic containers. They don't just decompose like that. So it
makes a big huge mess. And we say they're dirty. But it was quite
natural to just throw something out before because it just become
part of the ground again. Anyway, so Mr. Muhammad, he read, he told
he took the heat, he took the butter from it, and he returned
the leave. He said I only paid for the button, not the leaf. So there
was value in those things today today, Mashallah. Our parents were
mothers at home, they keep nice jars, they wash them out, they
keep a Nunes throw everything out, you know, anyway, so he kept the
string slowly, slowly every day. So it's a quick sale, you buy a
camel, you sell it, you keep the string, eventually, with the money
he had for the strings. He was able to buy a camel.
And then he had two camels, three camels for had no debt whatsoever.
Just day by day, he's trading day by day. At the end of the day,
he's clean, and he's got profit Subhanallah eventually a huge
number of camels. camels were extremely excited. Today. A goat
cost you about 90 to 100 pounds, a camel will set you back about 800
to 1000 pounds. I mean, a cow is that much nowadays, camel will be
even more. It's about 1000 pounds or more. That's the value of a
camel today. All right. So can you imagine what we're saying? That he
had quite a few few camels. Now the thing is that the way he
increased his wealth was very interesting. He increased it with
huge amounts of sadaqa not just bits of sadaqa huge amounts of
charity. That's how he increased it. On one occasion, he came up in
front of the Prophet salallahu Alaihe Salam The Prophet said
awesome. So effects of saffron on him. Saffron was used by the women
those days to be a nice smell like a fragrant, like a soft fragrance.
So he'd been with his wife and thus some of it had probably
rubbed off on him. So the Prophet sallallahu sallam said
Mahim that's like what's happened? He says, I've just married I just
got married, he says, What did you give her? Did you give her some?
Did you give her a dowry? So he said, Yeah, I gave her a seed
weight in gold. So I gave her that much gold Subhanallah So the
Prophet sallallahu sallam said, Go and do walima go and feed people
that way my husband's as soon as they get married, to thank Allah
subhanaw taala they should in happiness, they, that's what we
do, they do walima which is the feeding that that you do after
after you get married
during the expedition of the book, which was a very difficult time.
He came with 8000 animals and or 1000 dirhams, and he gave 4000 of
them in the path of Allah subhanaw taala and he kept another Ha he
kept the other half for his family. And the prophets of Allah
ism said to him BarakAllahu like female and sect were female
outdates May Allah bless you in what you kept, withhold withheld
for yourself, and may Allah also bless you in what you gave. So he
was literally able to split his wealth in half. So it wasn't just
our own.
What are the Allahu Anhu did that on that day? There were others as
well who did that? That's what you have to remember. This is the
spirit that they had SWANA How difficult is it today for us to
take half of our bank balance and just give it in the path of Allah
subhanaw taala we can give, you know maybe 100 100% or 10% Maybe,
but 50% That's a huge amount of money.
So Allah subhanaw taala then revealed about him and Earthman
are the Allahu Anhu Allah Xena Yun fit guna M word visa vie de la Sol
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those who spend their wealth in the path of Allah subhana wa Tada.
And then they don't follow it up with harm or with reminders. Hey,
man, I spent on you. What's your problem? Why don't you favor me?
Why don't you support me? Why don't you elect me? You know,
they, it's it's not it's not a bribe. It's just clearly for the,
for the sake of Allah subhanaw taala they don't follow it up with
any form of harm, or any form of reminders loom as Rahu Mandara be
him they have their reward according to Allah subhana wa they
have the reward by Allah subhanaw taala and they will be no fear. No
will they grieve on the Day of Judgment. So Abdurrahman him now
for the Allah one used to whenever he was concerned about his
eventual state in the Hereafter, he would, he would repeat this
verse, because it had been revealed about him. So he would
just try to find some sucker in it can get some support from it and
feel good about it. This was a blessing investment that he made
to spend in the path of Allah subhanaw taala Allah just gave him
more you spend for me, I'll give you more he'd lead bucketloads on
him. That's why Abdurrahman is now Friday alone used to saying you
don't you don't know yet. You know what I'm still going to mention,
but I'm not overly used to say that I could literally pick up a a
stone from the ground I'd probably find gold under it. Basically
saying how fast he could make money.
How much Baraka Allah had given him that he could just turn things
into money, not literally like every time I pick up a stone in
his a golden hand. Obviously he's it's metaphorical what he's
saying.
Because Allah subhanaw taala says in the Quran, now this is not a
fundraiser, but this is just a way to balance our life. This is just
the way to balance our life. Allah says Mr. Medina, Yun frequent
Amana, Humphrey subete Allah the example of those who spend their
wealth in the path of Allah subhana wa Tada gamma 30 hub
is like a seed that you plant um but that Saba Asana Erbil, which
then gave you seven corn seven years, seven further seeds are
seven further is in which in each of them is 100 further seeds. So
700, we're talking about from one penny that you give in the path of
Allah, you get 700 pennies, one pound, you get 700 pounds, 1000,
you get 700,000 pounds. And then it says wala who you will die if
we remain Yeshua, you know, for us today in the metric system that we
live in, everything's in 10s, and hundreds and millions. It's a very
round number we deal with 10s. But if you look at the original
imperial system, it was an intense, it's in 12 inches, make a
foot and 36 make a yard, and it's just kind of all over the place.
That's what people were used to the Sahaba were not used to 10s
and hundreds they were used to 770s and seven hundreds and then
beyond. That was That's why in the Hadith, you'll you'll see the
promise or some general and that's and that's more natural because
seven heavens seven doors of jahannam. Right, Jana has eight
doors just to make it more welcoming, right? But otherwise,
everything is generally in seven, seven days of the week, seven days
seven that it's a very kind of mature number, right? The lowest
of the most mature numbers in a kind of the lowest number of
significance in a sense. So that's what they used to deal with. So
Allah is saying, I'll give you this much but then Wallah who you
are, if only my Masha, Allah subhanaw taala can then multiply
this as much as he wants. So it's beyond what Allah who is here on
our team, Allah subhanaw taala is extensive, and he is most
knowledgeable, then
Abdurahman. Now if he gives 40,000 dinars dyrham is a silver piece
and dinar is a gold piece. And today, 20 dinars are worth about
22,000 pounds. Today, it could have been a different equation.
Those days. 20 dinars today are worth about 2000 pounds, which is
the nisab of gold. So can you imagine what 40,000 dinars are
worth, give or take fluctuation. Now, he This was before he passed
away. He distributed 40,000 dinars in the path of Allah subhanaw
taala imagine that to be
you know, that's a huge amount of money out of that he gave 1/3 He
distributed among the Mothers of the Believers are Aisha Radi
Allahu Allah and the others. Another third he distributed among
his family, his extended clan and family. And the other third he
gave to the poor of the muslimeen I shot at the Allahu anha. Once
she's sitting down, when she received a che, somebody came and
said, this is given to you from Abdul Rahman a mouth or the
Allahu, and this is your share. She said, Yes, the Prophet
salallahu Alaihe. Salam had she remarked, that the Prophet said
Allah is and has mentioned about his wives that only those, the
patient ones, those who have a lot of patients, they will be they
will have compassion towards the,
the mothers, the Mothers of the Believers. Then he she made a dua
for him. She said, May Allah give Abner out to drink from the
seltzer bill of paradise, the special drink Sal sebelah, the
special drink of paradise May Allah subhanho wa Taala give him
that to drink. Now the more people you give to an each person gives
you a bit of a DUA. Now remember, they don't have to if you give to
people, they don't have to sit down and raise their hand and say
May Allah reward such and such a person, the better dA is the one
that is going to come from the heart spontaneously. Somebody
gives you something and you think, Wow, man, that guy gave me this.
So she gave me this, you know, that's a great act of kindness.
And may Allah reward them just that feeling. That is what you
call a serious dua. And can you imagine the more you give, the
more people you get those kinds of dollars from, you can't have any
better investment than that. Then he received more blessings from
ALLAH SubhanA wa Tada. So then he gave 500 horses to the warriors in
one of the battles 500 horses, and horses worth a few, you know, a
few 100 today, so 500 of them. And then he gave the next time he gave
1500 horses, all he's out doing what he did before 1500 horses,
starts off with strings, saving up and look what he gets to that he
can get 1500 horses 40,000 dinars in the path of Allah subhanaw
taala. And again, you don't know the level of his wealth, yet. This
is nothing. This is nothing. When he became sick, and it seemed like
his last days, he gave away 1/3 of his wealth. Generally, what people
do is they make a bequest, they say, okay, when I die, then we
give 1/3 of our wealth away, it's actually superior to give it
before your wealth, because you still have the hope of recovering,
and thus you're losing your wealth, that means it's stronger,
because once you're gone, then let the wealth go. But when you're
still alive, and you may end up living for another 10 years, but
your wealth is gone now. So that is superior, superior to give
while you're still alive. So what he did was this what he did at the
end of his life, when he became ill he stayed mashallah old, he
had a good ripe age until 75 years of age, gave 1/3 away.
Beyond that, he said, Any sahabi, who took part in the Battle of
brothers 313 Sahaba, some of them must have passed away, but there
are probably still a significant amount from among them left. It
says anybody who's from was part of the battle of butter. They each
get 400 dinars each 400 times. You know, if 20 dinars is 2000. What
is 400 going to be worth today? It's a it's quite a huge figure.
Every battery Sahabi gets that. Now Earthman to the Allah, as you
know, was a very wealthy Sahabi he came to pick up his share as well.
So they said, if not, why are you doing that? You've got enough
money? Why are you taking you know, why are you going to get his
wealth that way, you're going to get your share as well. He said,
This is not sadaqa from him. This is Silla. He's doing this as an
act of kindness to join the bonds. And his wealth is halal wealth.
It's pure wealth. And I want to part of that Subhanallah right. So
this is the interaction that they had when he died. Now look at this
when he passed away. He left uncountable wealth.
He had three wives, and he passed away.
Now, just to give you a bit of maths, inheritance laws, how much
does a wife, a single wife, how much how much does a wife get from
her husband's inheritance?
She gets if they got if they don't have children, she gets a quarter.
If they have children, she gets one eight. If a person has two
wives or three wives, they share in that quarter or one eight. So
now you can understand why we don't want co wives. Right? You
get less money at the end of it. No, that's not the reason.
There's bigger reasons in that right, which is completely fine if
they don't want.
So every one of his three wives that he left in cash alone, we're
not counting the camels, the estates, the goats, the sheep, and
everything else in material. Just cash alone. They received 80,000
dinars each
So if you say 80,000 times three 816 24 240,000 dinars that was 1/8
of his wealth of his cash, wealth, liquid wealth as you would call
it. SubhanAllah. So you're talking about huge amounts of money that
Allah is just throwing on him, because he's spending huge
amounts. Now, you had people like Earthman Zubayr, Abdullah hamari
mouth spending like this in the path of Allah subhanaw taala,
doing business spending in the path of Allah helping the cause of
Islam and humanity. While then you had people like Abu Zubaydah
ignorant genre, another one of the Ashara mashallah, and Salman al
Farsi was not actual ambition. They had less but they were
patient. So they were content, they were still content, they
still had the color of Allah subhanaw taala you could not tell
the difference between them. Despite one having so much and one
not having as much they still play the same way on the fields.
Subhanallah on one occasion, after the barista Lawson passed away, I
shudder the Allahu Anhu is sitting in her home. And suddenly there's
a massive commotion, big noise as though this big army has just come
in with you know, you know, the whole the sound of everything that
comes about and I show the Allahu anha and it raised so much dust
that it filled the horizon so everybody could see it. I should
have the Allahu Ana she looked she says what's happened what's going
on in Medina you know, this must be something very special or
something quite significant. So yeah Oman what Mini and this is
the trade caravan of Abdul Rahman is now returning after its
business trip is just come back from Sharm from the Levant from
Syria etc. And it's carrying all of its all of its trade goods with
it. Women want many nature the Allahu Anhu said
such a caravan that makes such a racket such a big sound, such a
big noise and so much, you know, create so much commotion said yes,
yes, that's how big it is on will not mean 700 camels, laden with
goods
700 camels, as you know, so many trucks of goods that have just
come in. So then she on this occasion, she said something else.
She said, I've heard the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa salam saying
that I have seen Abdul Rahman Ignatieff are the Allah one and
two Jana,
on his knees, not entering quickly, but just about entering
on his knees, it shows that he's been left behind you understand,
is not entering like as fast as the others. This message that I
saw the alarm said it reached up there behind him now.
It reached under 100. Now very soon, you know nowadays, you get
people that will convey information as well for bad
reasons which you call calumny or Mima, but this is obviously done
out of advice from the Amal hurt the Amal Momineen the Mother of
the Believers is saying this about Abdulhadi mouth
Subhanallah that put the fear of Allah subhanaw taala in just that
statement, he had everything to go by all water sewer Allah, Allah
someone told him, but just that statement, put the fear of Allah
subhanaw taala in his heart to such a degree that he said what
Allah He learned Hulan the hub Wallah Hula, hula na Hubble laser
Hadwen No, I'm going to leap into Jana. Not not I'm not going to
drag myself into Jana. And then he said,
he says, What's the problem? I can give sadaqa in the morning, and
Allah will give me 1000s In the evening. And he said everything he
said, he actually said she has just reminded me of a hadith that
probably wasn't so he knew the same thing. He knew this
statement. I should have just mentioned it again. He had just,
it's just not recollected. But as soon as she said, he said, Yes,
she's just reminded me of something that opposed the loss of
did say, and I now make you witness that this entire caravan
of 700 camels with all of its load and everything in it is sadaqa
because I am going to jump I'm gonna rush into paradise. I'm not
going to I'm not I'm not going to crawl into paradise. And that's
because the actual Hadith on Rasulullah lorrison was yep mouth
in a communal Alinea. Oh, if now if you are from the wealthy ones
were in a considered hoorah. Jana to have one and you will enter
Jana, you you will enter Jana
dragging yourself for according to the law, give a loan
Unto Allah subhanahu wa Tada, you liquid like a coda make, and he
will set free your feet. The prophets, Allah some has said this
as an advice to him, he didn't say that you will definitely enter
like that. But because of the amount of wealth you have, it's a
restriction for you. Because when you have too much simple example,
when you have to fill in your tax forms, and the only thing you make
is a basic salary, you don't even have to fill up a tax form your
your employer does it. But if you've got income coming from
rental property, from shares and stock, and from here and there and
there, then you better pay an accountant to work out the best
way for you to work your taxes, right? And then you have to kind
of like really be careful how you do it. And you know how you save
money but not be penalized and it gets complicated? It gets
complicated, then you have to fill in all that other way. Just say
not available. Na Na, no, no, no, that doesn't apply to me. So in
the Hereafter, it's going to be something similar. Anything that
we've been given, we're gonna have to answer for it. The Prophet
sallallahu wanted to make it simple for himself. That's why he
said, Oh, Allah, gather me among the miskeen gather me among the
destitute, it's simple. few questions go in, no questions
asked. You don't person going through in the airport, you got
less than you just walk through. But if you've got these big shoes
on, and you've got these big buckles on and lots of earrings
on, and all this stuff, subhanAllah you know, it's going
to take your time, same kind of thing. Subhan Allah Subhana Allah,
I don't know where we are. Allah subhanaw taala just make it easy
for us. Because I can't see us living without anything. It's
difficult in this time and age to do that. But this is the example
we have in the people like Earthman and Abdurrahman mouth.
The reason they were able to do this was one simple thing. Mark
these words, this is the most simplest thing, their money, their
wealth, as much as it was, was in their hands. It wasn't in their
heart.
And when you have your money in your hands and not your heart,
it's easy to spend it. It's easy to give it in the right direction
in the right way. Because it's not taking your heart then it's easy.
There's a separation between that you still have the money, you
still can do what you want with it. But you have more control,
because he does not control you. You are the master of your wealth.
The wealth is not the master of us. Subhan Allah may Allah give us
that till feast. That's exactly why I'm mentioning because I just
find Abdurrahman him to have to be very inspirational in that regard,
despite having more than many of us could ever, ever dream about.
Yet they were still so focused. Because Allah says in the Quran,
Allah in Santa Leia Taha Aurora who sterner in ilaro, Baker Raja,
that the human being he becomes tyrannical when he sees himself
becoming independent, in a sense, when you start standing on your
own feet, when you start having some more disposable income, when
you feel that the constraints that were on you, and now you can spend
easily and you can just go and buy what you want, and shop you know,
online as you want, and enjoy the prosperity that you have and have
the latest phones etc. You start suddenly feeling a bit independent
minded, you start suddenly feeling self reliant and conceited, you
suddenly start feeling tyrannical in a sense. And that's where the
problem comes. That's where Allah subhanaw taala said that, but he
says in the law, Rob Baker Raja, you're going to return to Allah
subhanaw taala
I look every day at the food that Allah gives me on my sister when
I'm sending you. And I thank Allah and I tell my family, thank Allah
because this is not going to last forever. If we don't think Allah,
because if you thank Allah, He gives you more. And if you don't
think Allah, you don't get Baraka, then it's all a deceit, it's all
deception. So I can sit and we will have fruit from one country,
we'll have rice from another country, we'll have a masala from
another country, we'll have desserts from another country, you
go in as this, you go in your supermarkets, you have aisles of
foreign food, we have everything at our disposal, and the ability
to buy it and have it and we have safety. And almost Simran sisters
around the world don't have safety. So if we don't thank Allah
for what Allah has given us, then what's going to happen? I'm
honest, you need to think about this. Allah has given us so much
it's amazing what Allah has given us. Allah don't make it a
deception for us.
What use is that? What uses that? Then? Somebody asked him, How do
you get so much wealth? What do you do? And then he mentioned some
of his business ethics. He says, I never sell loans. Basically, he
doesn't deal with interest. He doesn't deal with that kind of
stuff at all. He was just was all straightforward dealing by small
build up and then mashallah you've got ability and Allah will give
you the baraka, believe me, you will have the ability afterwards.
This was his life afterwards. He sat down once with his friends in
his house. And nice dish was placed in front of them meat and
rice or something like that meat and bread.
And he started crying.
He just started weeping, my Yukia about Mohammed what's making you
weep? Oh Abu Mohammed
and he's
said
And if Allah has given an ability to people to reflect and to
compare themselves with when they don't have or others that don't
have, then think that that's an atma from Allah subhanaw taala
because that will stop the tyranny in its tracks. It will keep us
balanced, it will keep us focused. He said, Look at Mirtha Rasulullah
he sallallahu alayhi wa sallam Rama shabbier who looked at him in
Hubzu. Cherie wama Ana Ana ohana, Lima hua hai Ramana he said, that
Rasulullah sallallahu Sallam passed away, and never once did
his fill his stomach, and never did he satiate himself ever eat to
his fill with, with barley with barley. And I feel that with all
the riches that Allah has given us, he's giving us advanced
bounties of the hereafter in this world.
So they are, they're so focused on the hereafter that they're feeling
that they're getting their parts of the agenda that they should get
in the hereafter they're getting it early in the world. So they
will be deprived in the hereafter.
So it will go across the dignity and once he was brought, he asked
for water and they brought him water that was mixed with
something to make it more pleasant because there there was always a
scarcity of good water. Right? Just like London has a scarcity of
good water.
What I mean is I can't drink the tap water here I have a problem
with it tastes like chlorine. I've lived out London for such a long
time when I come back and if you can drink London water then thank
that's it. That that is a bounty of Allah because I can't I have to
buy my water. Seriously, I'm not joking. I can't drink the water
from the tap unless and really and it's very cold so it masks the
taste right? Just can't do it up north mashallah I was once in
Blackburn I had a program there and they're serving the bottled
water I think you guys are crazy. You got wonderful water why you
why you spending money for all of the left hand side when you when
you look at Birmingham and up all that water is nice it tastes nice
right but London water I can't take your money
anybody else's problem with
with London water
you do? What do you just make that up right now?
Believe me if you don't and you can drink from then enjoy it. I
can go to Birmingham and mashallah just drink glasses of water and
you actually feel good about it. You know, like somebody's given
you a good drink Subhanallah I think it's just deprivation on my
behalf.
You know, another distinction of Abdulhadi mouth, very respectable,
honorable individual prophets also had a lot of respect for him, as
well. And on one occasion, during the Battle of taboo, the Prophet
said Allah was with Mahira ebrochure Abba Radi Allahu another
Sahabi. He went aside for a while
and
to do something, and then Roy's awesome relieved himself and did
we'll do and we'll hit him in Shaba helped him out. When they
came back. It was solid time just pass a law time. And that's how we
decided to stop praying for some reason. And who did they put
forward? Abdul Rahman if the oath or the Allah one. So I'm gonna
hand it over just finished one record. Now he's on the second
record, and that's when the prophets Allah, some arrived, and
Mahira in the show, but tried to say, you know, try to shout out to
say up there. Oh, we're here. Now we're here. No, no leaving. And
they prayed behind.
Abdurrahman bow for the Allah one. And after the salad finished and
they turned around, they saw the promise that awesome day, you can
imagine what they felt. What did we just do? But the promise that
loves was so cool. He was just so good. He said, I've got a sub two
sub term called centum You did the right thing. You did the best
thing that was what you're supposed to do.
Subhanallah look at the way the prophets Allah Psalm used to deal
with the Sahaba if they had conflicts, they were human beings
that had certain conflicts between them. So once Khalid bin Walid and
Abdul Rahman lived out, they had a bit of a tussle about some sort.
So Abdurrahman, Hypno, elf, he went and complained to to prophesy
Allah some about how they've been worried or the Allahu and the
Prophet sallallahu sallam said, Yeah, harlot limit to the original
Amin Ali Baba, why are you? Why are you messing around? Why are
you harming why you inconveniencing a man who was in
the Battle of brother, because he didn't win either they only became
Muslim afterwards. He was on the other side, you know before so
it's a why you're doing that to a brother. It's a hobby. Right? So
how did Ben Walid know then he said then he said, he says lo
unfucked Mithila or Dendermonde lamb to the camera. If you now
spent the mount or heard in, in gold, if you had that and you
spent it in the path of Allah so you could get the honor of being
in the Battle of butter on the right side, you will not be able
to get it. That's what he has. So he really gave the merits of
Abdulhadi winner over the Allah on to toto look take it easy with
him.
So hard has been really that the alone he said, Yeah rasool Allah,
they also they're doing this to me and you know, this is what they
say about me. So now, this the price that Allah has is wonderful,
he said to the other side on which I'm drama now for the aloneness he
says love to Haledon don't do this 200 Because for inner who safe
woman so you feel love
A sub Rahula who I will prefer, he is because he is the he's a sort
of Allah he's a sort of the swords of Allah subhanaw taala which
Allah has poured over the disbelievers once abdur-rahim Now
for the Allah when was fasting,
and His food was brought to him. And again, he started weeping. He
says, You can tell by this, what kind of frame of mind he was he
had all of his wealth, but it wasn't in his heart because if it
was he'd never think this way.
He said, so why are you crying, eat he says, you know, a person
better than me most ignorant are made. When he was martyred. He
didn't have a cloth large enough to cover him. His feet were left
uncovered. If you tried to cover his feet, his head was left
uncovered. That's how they went from the world. And then another
person Hamza, or the Allah one, when he was martyred, they didn't
have a cloth to cover him with. And today I have this and then he
didn't eat the foods. He didn't eat the foods.
This was just states that he would go through to deal with the world.
This is this is a lesson for us this reflection, so it doesn't get
to our head
and just giving us practical solutions here. In fact,
he he made a similar statement when he was about to pass away he
started crying. And he said the same he said most of you know me
when he died, he was like this. And when Hamza, the Allah when he
passed away, he was like this. And I just feel that my bounties of
Jannah are all been given to me in this world. And I am now going to
be prevented from the rest of my companions, and I'm going to stay
behind in my entry into Jana.
He was always concerned like that he passed away in 31 Hijiri after
Rasulullah sallallahu sins migration 31 add 20 years or so
after the person passed away, and he was
75 years old. He is buried in the Bucky in the graveyard in the
bhakti Romana the Allahu Anhu prayed Salah on him. Now look how
great he was that he should have the Allahu anha
after the prophets, Allah some pasta, we promise that our son was
buried in her room, she still continued to stay there. Right? It
had it has just enough place for literally for people to be buried
inside. That's how big the room was right? Not a mansion. That's
how big the room was. So now the profit or loss is buried. Then
her father passed away Abu Bakr Siddiq or the Allah one. So she
allowed him to be buried next to the Prophet salallahu Salam. Now
there's enough space still just for you know, for her to live
there. Then Amara, the Allahu anhu, when he was stabbed, and he
felt that these were his last moments, he asked his son to go to
each other the Allahu anha and ask her if he would be allowed to be
buried next to his two companions.
Like just an off like, let's try it out. I shouldn't say well, I
was leaving it for myself. But since you asked, I will give you a
preference. On what to do. I was so fair that he told his son look
when I actually die, go and ask her again. So there is no
compulsion right now. I'm still the Ameerul Momineen. She might
feel compelled. But when I pass away, then she can say no, you
know? And literally, if she says no, just take me to the bucket
just take me to the main graveyard. No argument. But of
course she allowed. Now when she was there, she put up a divider
after that, although he's buried, he in the ground. She says until
now I had my father and my husband. Now I have a stranger in
my room. She still stayed in the room. She just had a bit of space
left. Right. And
she would never be uncovered after him. Her hair would never be
uncovered.
Or Gee, what kind of level of modesty these these people had.
She offered or later on when Abdurrahman him now off was about
to pass away she offered that I'll give you the space. She didn't
offer to anybody else. After Obama or
promise alyssum Obama and Obama are buried there. She offered that
final space to Abdurrahman. Dibner off. Can you imagine what kind of
honor he he was holding? And he said no. He himself said he said,
No, I don't want to tie I don't want to squeeze you out of your
house. Basically, I don't want to tight in your room anymore. You
don't have enough space there at all. Very fair, individual, very
fair individual. And this, there's so many stories about him and what
are they allowing us to use him at crucial times.
crucial times when no decision could be made Abdurrahman outcome,
and he would make a decision and they would listen to that
decision.
So the story is long about how Amada the owner made a committee
of six people and said the next leaf has to be among the six
because these are the remaining six people who the Prophet Solomon
was satisfied with well before he passed away.
So you had of course Earthman and Oliver the Allahu Anhu among them
as well.
So finally it came to the case where Abdurrahman o saw that
matters weren't. And they were told that they must make a
decision in three days, they were not allowed to go out and visit
other people and other people weren't allowed to come and visit
them. So there could be no outside influence. There was also an army
of a number of people standing outside to make sure to force them
to impose any decision they made if the need came to that, and
there were certain guidelines on what to do when placed. Finally
Abdurrahman him now if he said, Look, let me let me make the
decision. Do you give it over to me, I'll make the decision. So I'm
taking myself out of it, but I'll I'll be become the arbitrator.
Finally, he became the arbitrator, and it came down to earth man and
it really Allah Juan. And then he went and privately asked a number
of individuals and he found that Earth mana the Allahu Anhu would
be the best suited individual for that. And he asked each one
individually with one earlier the Allahu on that, are you, you know,
would you be fine if he the next one was 11? They said, Yeah, we'll
be fine with that. And he asked Earthman he said yes, with add on
as well. Finally with one was given beta, and then he was the
holly for over 10 years after Amara, the Allah one, but his
numerous other stories about where he came in and he would bring
Hadith at the right time. He was a man for the, you know, to come in
at the right time, for example, or one of the Allah one. He went to
shum they get to they got to a place in the Shami army was
already fighting there. And if you remember, there's a famous plague
that took place, the plague of the worse. So many people are killed
in that. Now, the question is, should this armor the Allah horns
army go forward or come back? Should it go into the area that's
afflicted by plague? Or should it come back to Madina? Munawwara
some Sahaba saying, yes, you should
coddle you know, in fact, obey the original Gerasa term or the Allah
one at the federal mencoder Allah, are you running away from the
decree of Allah? He says, Yeah, we are running away from the decree
of Allah to the decree of Allah. You don't know what the decree of
Allah is. Right? So so he was like, yes, you should carry on.
But there were others who, who, who said, No, let's go back. I'm
the Ramana wasn't there suddenly pops in. And he says, I in
Rasulullah, sallAllahu, he brought brought a hadith in which he
remembered the Rasulullah sallallahu sallam said, if there
is a place you hear, there's a plague there. Don't go in there.
And if you're already there, don't come out. It stops the stops. It
doesn't become contagious then. Right? So he would come in at
moments like that, in fact, oh my god, Allahu Anhu. And he was going
to fight a great battle, the first time they were going to have the
excursions to Persia, or what have you and decided that I'm going to
go out myself in the head of the army. He went out for a short
distance I'm married now for dinner was the one who told him,
You know, I don't think you should go out, you should get one of the
great commanders, let them go, and you should stay in Madina
Munawwara, because if anything happens to this army, that's the
end of it. He could foresee that Meridiana was a very great asset,
and he should not be put in this Jeopardy. You stay in Madina,
Munawwara and you, you know, you, you give the guidance from there,
let somebody else go. And I've thought about it and said yes, and
he went back. So he would listen to people like Abdul Rahman now
for the Allah. There's many, much more to say. But I just want to
say the reason I brought him up is because of the wealth that he had.
And yet it did not reach his heart and her head in the way it does to
us today, where we have a bit of money, we get a new phone, we
start fleshing it around, we get a new dress, we start showing off
around we start acting in a particular way that people will
look at us know that we think we're something it's just the
nature of these things. But once we read, remember our mortality,
we remember our hereafter, we remember who we really are. And if
we can associate ourselves with Allah subhanaw taala to such a
degree, then regardless of what's in this world, Allah will only
give us more, Allah will only give us more as we give in his path.
Allah will give us more and not allow it to reach our heart. And I
ask Allah for that for all of us. Because you're sitting here in
Imperial College, one of the top universities in the world I think,
is it? What number was it?
Sorry, actually saw us was supposed to be number one, they
just forgot to put it on. Right? Somehow Imperial got there because
it's got a nice name Imperial sounds imperialistic. Right does
it I hope he doesn't make you like that. Right there. You've got a
lot going for you in sha Allah, Allah give you all Baraka, you
guys are going to do a lot in sha Allah once you finish, but don't
let it get to your head be the be like the Sahaba you're gonna have
no better example than the Sahaba you're gonna have no better
example in the Sahaba get a book called higher to Sahaba higher to
Sahaba the lives of the Sahaba Subhanallah it this is a manual of
life. It's a manual of life. May Allah subhanaw taala give us a
tool feet working with Darwin Anil hamdulillah
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