Abu Abdissalam – Purification Of The Soul – EP23

			miserliness
		

			Allah Almighty says,
		

			but as for him, who is stingy and self satisfied, and denies the good, we will pave his way to
difficulty.
		

			Assalamualaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh. And welcome to another episode of purification of the
soul.
		

			I'm your host Salaam. And we have with us in the studio, our guests, Kareem, Muhammad, and Kairos.
		

			In this series, we're discussing purification of the soul, or does gear to the force. And we
mentioned that the word test gear in Arabic has two connotations to it, one of those connotations,
the linguistic meaning I think, is to purify or cleanse and to increase to purify oneself, from what
your own selves have bad qualities and characteristics, and then increase in the good qualities,
good qualities. And this is what does get in the food is all about. And we spoke about the soul, the
knifes or the roof. And we said that it is one of three components, that when they come together,
they join together to create or to come to bring a creation by the name of insan or man, what are
		

			these three components? First and foremost? The Spirit, the Spirit, the body, the body, and the
intellect and the intellect the article. And also, we said in the first episode, about how the three
components of Islam, or of the Dean of the religion
		

			are related to these three components of man.
		

			What How is that the three parts of the deen Islam. So for instance, you could say the bed and the
body is related to Islam, which of the outer actions in this case is the body than a man, a man
which is related to the to the appeal and the beliefs intellect, yeah, which has to do with the
belief system and the role of the Spirit, which is related to the sun, or the outer, or the
spiritual perfection if you like. That's right. And one of the diseases that we're now going to be
looking at
		

			a very important disease that we should remove ourselves from, and it's a continuation from what we
were talking about in the last episode. In the last episode, we were talking about love of this
world. And we now come to realize after studying that is that love of this world often leads to this
disease, which is called miserliness, or stinginess in Arabic. bookwell. Now jabber ibn Abdullah,
Abdullah the Allahu taala, who he said that the Messenger of Allah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said,
beware of oppression, for oppression will be darkness on the Day of Judgment. And beware of
miserliness. stinginess, because it destroyed those who are before you. It incited them to shed
		

			their blood and deemed the unlawful as lawful. Now, as we know miserliness is a quality that no one
likes having attributed to them, and it's to refuse to give something that one has acquired to
someone who has requested it. And it is far worse, as Jeff said, when the one who requests it is
entitled to that thing. And even worse than that, is when someone is miserly with someone else's
property. Allah subhanaw taala senses in the Quran, those who are stingy and order the people to be
stingy in Surah Nisa, verse number 37. Now, why in Islam, why is miserliness so detested? Why is it
something considered not good?
		

			stinginess and such a quality is very much contrary to the, to the Brotherhood and, and generosity
which are praiseworthy things within Islam? How can we see some of this generosity and brotherhood
		

			in at the time of the Sahaba, in particular, after he drove
		

			while they were making hedgerow in hospitality and then Wahhabi vein advisory non answer, which
means in English, which means brotherhood between measuring those who immigrated from Mecca to
Medina. And
		

			those, the answer the house are those who supported the Prophet Muhammad Sallallahu sallam. So what
kind of things did he do for example, those who are in Medina, what do they do to
		

			help those who have emigrated from Makkah to show this brotherhood. So they accommodated them within
the houses, they offered them, you know, half the width of the wealth,
		

			even to the extent that they were willing to offer one of the wives to them.
		

			One what else terms of worth the words that they had, they would divide it, and they would offer to
the Nigerian and there was a kind of true brotherhood. So miserliness, as you mentioned, is
something that is contrary to the Islamic spirit of this Brotherhood in the minion Echo, that the
believers are but brothers. And this is something
		

			that we need to concentrate more on, when we talk about loving each other for the sake of a Lost
Planet, Allah. And when we talk about how we should not hate each other, Muslims should not hate
each other, and we'll talk about that in future episodes in sha Allah. But there are two main
aspects of miserliness. In Islam. The first aspect is against the Sharia of Islam. And the second
aspect is contrary to if you like meritorious character, one can be a miser with respect to the
Sharia if he withholds from paying Zakat, or from supporting one's dependence or something like
this. In other words, if a person withhold from any obligatory type of spending is in Islam, then
		

			he's considered to be a miser according to the Sharia and this is haram. And it is necessary for the
person to cure himself of this kind of stinginess, miserliness, Nygard leanness. So this is the
first aspect against the Sharia. You can sum this up by saying any thing that a person is obliged to
spend
		

			his wealth on and he doesn't do it, then he's considered to be stingy in the sight of a Lost Planet
Allah in other words in the Sharia in the, in the law of Islam.
		

			The second aspect with regards to miserliness is in accordance with a meritorious character. In
other words, it's just part of good character, part of brotherhood, if you like,
		

			that is a person, he'd be considered a miser among the people, if he lacks virtuous merit. When
someone comes to him,
		

			he refuses, even though he has the money. So why an example could be where there's a poverty
stricken beggar, you know, one who really desperately needs a small amount of money, the person has
the money in his pocket, for example, and perhaps he's only looking for a small amount of money,
something to just buy him food for the day, the person has the money in his pocket, he has no need
of that money, it's extra for the what they call in Arabic, it's extra. But the person refuses to
give that money, even though he's able to do so another example, is to give a hard time to someone
who owes you a small amount of money, you, for example, you gave them a loan of a small amount of
		

			money that you really don't have a specific need of at that time, you can wait a year, two years,
three years, there's no way you're going to need that money, you have much more, but then you're
miserly, because you go after that person. You give him a hard time, and so on and so forth. And
this is to do with one's character, his motto, if you like, and so the one who doesn't have this is
fallen into what is known as the How are those things which make a person's character bad?
		

			And I live in La Jolla, and who said that the rich miser is poorer than the generous, poor person.
Why is this the case? Why would a person who's rich, but he's stingy, in reality be poorer, poorer
than the one who's poor, but he's generous.
		

			He cannot feel the existence of money in his hands. He just cannot spend them he just cannot feel
that he has money like like a rich man. He is more suffering than the poor, because he has money but
he suffers from poverty, because he's not willing to spend that money. So he's holding up in his
bank and maybe even getting interest which is haram.
		

			A Lost Planet Allah said that he wages war against those who deal with Riba interest and
unfortunately, some people especially in the Muslim lands, they deal with interest with different
names. They don't call it Riba they call it forward, or Reb. profit of benefit. So they take
interest and a Lost Planet Allah waged war against those who deal in in Riba in interest. Now, the
point here, as you mentioned, he's poor, the rich person
		

			Who is who has a lot of money, but he simply he's miserly with that money is living a porpoise life?
It doesn't he doesn't have any kind of feeling towards that wealth simply because he doesn't spend
it. He doesn't see the benefits, if you like of that wealth. Why else would he be poorer?
		

			Perhaps
		

			because he has the ability to spend, if you will. That's one for LASIK. Good. That's a good
explanation. Another one. Also, final spending, he doesn't experience the joy. And yeah, that's what
that's what Kareem was mentioning. But in terms of being spiritually poor, he had person may have a
lot of money, but he might be spiritually poor. He had a resource material resource that he could
exploit in the opinions of Allah, but he didn't make any use of it didn't make use of it. And this
is why I laid out the law and who said, as we said, that the rich miser is poorer than the generous
poor person, he's mentally poor, he has this psyche that he simply cannot give just like the poor
		

			person, physically, he cannot give. But this person he has this psyche, that even though he has the
money, he has the psyche that he cannot give. And you see many people who may even be wealthy. But
when something is being given, being given, given out free, that the first to seek it is the first
in the queue, even if it's meant for poor people, there'll be the first to accept, there'll be the
first put their hands up, but when they are asked for something, that, that even maybe it's spare to
them, they refuse to give it and this is, this attitude is totally contrary to the Islamic practice
of generosity. And inshallah we will touch more about this issue of generosity and how the prophets
		

			lie. Selim himself was so generous after this break in sha Allah saramonic.
		

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			We're speaking BEFORE THE BREAK about the quality of miserliness. And we said that in Arabic, the
word is called stinginess, neighborliness. And we said that this is a very bad quality. We mentioned
that there are some people that even though they may be affluent and rich, sometimes, when something
is being given out free, they'll be the first in the queue to accept such gifts. And likewise, on
the controversially, if conversely, when they are asked for something that may even be spare to
them. They refuse to give it anything, any small thing, even if somebody wants to borrow something
from them, they refuse to give it. Now this attitude is totally contrary to the Islamic practice of
		

			generosity. The Prophet sallallahu Sallam was extremely generous, and even our boss or their loved
one whom I remember correctly. He said that the Prophet sallallaahu Swami said cannot also lie. He
said, Allah was seldom edgier than us. The prophet SAW Selim was the most generous of people, the
most generous of people. In fact, Jabir ibn Abdullah of the lavon, who, when he was speaking about
the generosity of the prophets, I send them he said, that in Ramadan, he was like a real morcilla
the world when whirlwind, the strong whirlwind. In other words, he could not think of a word, the
narrator of this hadith could not think of a word sufficient enough, which was sufficient enough to
		

			describe the generosity of the Prophet sallallahu sallam. in Ramadan. He simply said he was like a
whirlwind, due to the tremendous generosity that he displayed in another generation, jabber Allah
Han who said that the Prophet sallallahu Sallam was never asked for anything. And he said, No,
imagine that quality you ask anything from lesson to lesson Lysander and he never refuses. And this
was the character of the Prophet sallallahu.
		

			Now, there are many causes for stinginess, miserliness. Let's have some examples of that. Why? What
would make somebody
		

			have this trait of stinginess one that comes to mind is a perhaps the person is insecure.
		

			And because what do you mean by that, for instance, he may have accumulated a large amount of wealth
		

			Hmm. But he feels that if he was to spend or give it to charity, etc, etc, to lose it, and all if it
would go, yeah, so he maybe doesn't have enough reliance of our last panel. And in one of the
episodes previously we mentioned about how reliance of our last pantalla stops miserliness, because
if a person has trust in Allah, Allah is the one who provides that he be willing to give away as
well as and when he feels the need to like us, that goes back to the fact that man has, you know,
infinite once that when he has something he, he always wants some more. I think the process as I
mentioned, if he has a mountain of gold, you want to mountains,
		

			to the point of reliance on Allah, if someone has reliance on Allah, he feels secure. But if one
doesn't have such faith, he feels secure with money, it gives him sort of social and financial
security. So it's always afraid of losing his money, because this means he will be poor and suffers
poverty and lack of money and hunger. But why would we? Why doesn't he lend other people think? Why
refuse to do minor little things like that? I suppose you could say that he doesn't want to lose,
perhaps his position of others. How would that, for instance, for example, you could say, he might
have a laptop, one of the latest laptops, and another person may want a laptop that's similar to
		

			that or even better than that. So instead of lending him his laptop, or giving him the money to
purchase it, he may just say, may give him a small amount of money to purchase something.
		

			a laptop, which has a lower specification than his one, because he wants to entertain. So that kind
of goes against the love for your brother, what you love for yourself. aspect. Maybe he fears also
that if he lends somebody, his thing is things done that they may damage it or not look after it.
Like now, you know, maybe that's an item of clothing that they want
		

			to trust as well. The trust in no brotherhood again, the person who's who's who's a Muslim, he will
not have
		

			What about
		

			what is the essence of miserliness? What's the deep rooted reason for miserliness? I think it's the
materialistic behavior, and trend of society and everything you can get anything you need for money.
So money means everything means security means luxury means
		

			means everything means rich people's respect,
		

			love.
		

			Yes, the love of the dunya, the love of this world, the extreme attachment to this work will pick up
on that point, after looking at some comments made by some of the people that were interviewed
earlier, they say that the person would be miserable by the lack of a soul. Since life is not only
what the blood that runs in someone's vein, or the oxygen that comes to the lungs. It is the faith
that someone's have in God, or the faith in life, love and the love that he can share with people
around him. By that, by that only by company and friendship, Misery would be less the rich miser, to
be apparently so rich and do whatever he wants, and the poor person is poor, and doesn't have any
		

			money.
		

			But the other side, of course, the Rich Moser is much much poorer than the poor guy. Because the
poor guy could be working to be like, do anything that could make him richer with money and richer
with friends and other things that are much more important than the money the rich, the rich miser
is a miser he doesn't actually use his his, his his money. So he couldn't be rich, his written his
richness couldn't be like
		

			any useful to him. I think that this is very dangerous for the society and for social solidarity
between the members of society, because I think the gap between the rich and the poor is going to be
increased and do and this will cause an instability. Some interesting comments made there. Now we're
talking about some of the causes of miserliness water, I just tend to get confused can one be a
miser in terms of wealth only? Is it specific to work there are other types of miserliness as well
as we mentioned, miserliness is something that can be done against a Sharia withholding Well, it can
be something done against humanity, losing character if you like. But there are other types of
		

			mindedness like a person who has knowledge. A person has knowledge, and he doesn't give that
knowledge. It can be considered to be a miser how's that the case?
		

			Because, you know, just keeping that note
		

			If not sharing it with the people
		

			being stingy, sometimes it can be worse. Yeah, because he's trying to keep the superior inferior,
inferior relationship with others. That's one possibility. That's one possible reason why he's being
stingy with regards to his knowledge. But you can also say that he doesn't want to share his
knowledge of fear of his intention being compromised ostentation. But what's the remedy for that?
Should he like if a person prays, and he's ostentatious? He shouldn't stop praying. He should rather
cure the ostentation so he should give out the knowledge or give Zakat for his knowledge. But when
the many cases of companions who would, who would not would not give the knowledge and pass them to
		

			as companions to, you know, ask when there's sufficient number of people present, then it's okay for
you to do that. It's okay for you to pass it on. And that's often safer, the safer, but when there
is not enough people to give up the sacred knowledge, knowledge of Islam and the deen, then this is
something that is is praiseworthy for a person to give up the knowledge on the condition that of
course, he has to be free or try to avoid any kind of showing off or ostentation, in terms of
worldly knowledge, you are making a point about superiority. Yeah, when someone is
		

			superior in in a certain field, he doesn't want anyone to be a competitor for him. So he's trying to
keep back this his knowledge for himself and doesn't try to share it with others. I remember a
statement that it was like a joke as such, but it has great morals to it, where a person who is a
teacher of like some kind of self defense, karate, Taekwondo, whatever. And he had a student, and he
taught the student, almost everything that he knew, until the student came to a certain level. And
he said, okay, teacher, let me let's let's have a fight. Because now I know everything I'm going to
beat you in this fight.
		

			And the teacher.
		

			He said, Okay, so he pulled out a new maneuver, a new move that he hadn't taught his students. And
he beat him with that move. So the student, he said,
		

			Hey, you didn't teach me that. He said, Yes, I saved it for this day. He saved I saved that move for
this day. So sometimes knowledge can obviously the moral behind that is knowledge can lead to a
person to having pride, or arrogance,
		

			not respecting their teachers, and so on and so forth. But that's not really an excuse to be miserly
with one's knowledge. But coming back to the point of the,
		

			of the causes of miserliness, you have causes that are, you know, things like a person.
		

			We have different types of causes. But what is the root cause of misery, love of this world love of
this world, if a person can cure that, and have reliance on torkel on a Lost Planet, Allah, then he
can cure his illness? This is the root cause of this. What about the effects of miserliness? on
society, on individuals, on family on friendships?
		

			I mean, I guess it causes, you know, hatred and distrust between people that, you know, why is he
not giving? you're sharing these things with me? Does he not like me, doesn't mean trust me, I'll
give the money back, as opposed to the economic downfall of societies. So because if people refused,
and didn't want to spend, then trade would occur. And you know, except perhaps, certain public
interest, nobody would spend towards it. If everybody imagine a society where everybody is, is a
miser, nobody would show bridges, for example, in Islamic State, people would give money towards
these kind of public interest. Nobody would build masajid mosques, schools and these kind of things,
		

			unless there's a personal benefit in it. for themselves, there will be no society because everyone
is living for himself and by himself, doesn't want to share anything with others, especially the
material interest. Within this, such a person also, it shows his, maybe his arrogance, and that he
believes, you know, the, the blessings that Allah has given him, is deserving for himself only is
something is something that belongs to him. So he doesn't he doesn't realize that the blessings that
Allah has given him a temporary and they belong to a Lost Planet, Allah Allah is the one who, who
blessed and also that person will be asked about the wealth, the blessings that are Lost Planet
		

			Allah has bestowed on him.
		

			Some of the effects of miserliness we can see, we've mentioned some of them with regards to the
society that individuals
		

			What about on friendships for example,
		

			it will lead to friendships being destroyed. Because part of friendship is to give, as well as take
not just take, give and take and that goes with married life, for example, it goes with family and
so on and so forth. inshallah, in the next episode, we'll talk about some of the cures for
miserliness. And we'll go and we'll see insha Allah some examples of generosity that was displayed
by the companions to each other, or sallallahu wasallam or Baraka, Allah anabaena, Muhammad Ali, he
was a pH mine Salaam Alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh