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The importance of having hadiths and avoiding discouragement is emphasized, along with the benefits of the d inhibitors, including breaking fastes and taking small portions. The speaker emphasizes the importance of learning healthy and being generous with house items, as well as not leaning on past mistakes and wanting to spend money. The speaker also emphasizes the importance of being content with one or more things one has and not wanting to spend money. The conversation ends with a discussion of the importance of being happy and healthy to achieve happiness and health.AI Generated Transcript ©
So we're continuing with the
hadith from Kitab Uzzud,
from Sahih Muslim, Rahimahullah.
And as we explained last time, is
that distance that you put between you and
the dunya, abstention from it,
or abstention from what is harmful or excessive
or indulgent from the dunya.
So you take from it what you need
and you leave the rest,
and that is the essence
of.
So hadith for
today
kind of goes along what we were talking
about
last time.
She said
she said we, the family of
Muhammad would stay a month
without lighting a fire.
It's only
dates and water.
Right? And in the following hadith,
she adds
except if we are brought a little bit
of meat.
Right? I mean, somebody gifts them a little
bit of meat, but otherwise
she said,
you would spend a month without lighting a
fire in the house.
So equivalent today of turning your oven on,
right, or microwave. So no microwave on, no
oven on. Why?
Because there's nothing to cook.
And what do you live on?
She said,
dates and water.
Unless, you know,
occasionally, maybe once in a while, they'll have
a little bit of meat. But just imagine
spending an entire month
not eating anything hot.
The only thing that you eat is what?
Dates
and then
you drink water, and then dates and you
drink water, and then dates and you drink
water.
And then it's day and night, day and
night, day and night, like that.
Right?
And
no soul, no human being
would be able to tolerate this
unless there is
satisfaction with the duniya
and greater satisfaction with Allah and the akhira.
Because no person who loves the dunya, loves
this world, will be able to live like
this
because you'll be looking at people around you
and you say, why am I living like
this? Everybody eats whatever they feel like.
They have bread and they have meat. They
go places.
Why am I
denied the duniya?
So there is no way for you and
when she said al Muhammed, she's talking about
the prophet alayhi salatu wa sallam.
And maybe you say to yourself, well, he's
a prophet so he could do this. He's
extra special.
But she's also talking about whom?
Herself.
She's talking about the rest of his wives.
These are women.
Right?
Does they have the same makeup as everybody
today? She's talking about his children,
right? So these are not prophets.
This is how they lived.
So you cannot live like this unless the
love of the dunya
has diminished
in your heart to the extent that you're
not looking forward to it
and you're looking forward to the,
right?
You know how when you're fasting, as you
are fasting, you're dreaming of food,
Right? Once I break my fast, I'm gonna
eat this and this and drink this and
that. Right? So why is that? Because the
body wants it
and more than that, the soul also wants
it.
So, yeah, you're denying yourself when you're fasting
but as soon as you break your fast,
you eat whatever you like.
But what if it if your fasting is
fasting from the dunya?
You know, you don't care about
whether you have it or not. If it
comes your way, it comes your way, but
if not, it doesn't.
And you don't crave it, but on top
of that also you don't feel sorry for
yourself when you don't have it.
Why?
Because there's a greater break in a fast,
which is the.
So again, if you want an example,
let's say for instance
that you break your fast today
and you only have dates
and somebody right next to you, they're eating
meat, whatever you whatever you crave, they're eating
it.
But you know that in 2 or 3
days, you'll be eating something far better than
what they're eating.
Won't that give you patience? You say, fine.
Today, I'm eating dates.
He's eating something better. But in 2, 3
days,
the thing that I'm gonna be eating is
a lot better than what he is eating
today. So that's fine.
Expecting
that great reward from Allah
compensate
for the scarcity of the dunya.
So it allows you to take less of
it because you're gonna have more of the
favors of Allah, azza wa jal. So you
say to yourself, I may be hungry now,
but I'll be eating from,
azza wa jal, if Allah is pleased with
me the food of heaven.
I'll be drinking from heaven. I'll be clothed
from heaven. That's far better than whatever I
have here. So you could sacrifice here for
there.
So that sacrifice is possible because of Allah
azza wa jal, because of iman and what
he has.
Otherwise, no one can live on dates only
or renouncing the dunya for expecting nothing in
return. There has to be something. And what
is that thing? It is Allah's pleasure.
Another hadith that also illustrates how little they
had and it comes from
She
said,
She said
she said that prophet alayhi salatu wa sallam
passed away
and I had nothing
that a living being could eat in my
house except some barley.
They I kept it on a shelf
or a cupboard.
I kept eating from it, meaning I kept
taking from it. So it's some barley, let's
say, in a sack.
I kept taking from it and eating from
it. That's the only thing that she has
in her house.
So takes and eats, takes and eats, takes
and eats
until it's, like, it
a lot of time had passed
and still it's not exhausted yet.
I waited,
then it ran out. When I waited,
it ran
out. But as long as she was taken
from it without weighing it, it kept giving
to her.
So there
are a couple of benefits in this hadith.
The first is that when he passed, alaihi
salaahu alaihi salaam, aisha in her house, what
did she have?
Sha'ir.
Right? Only barley, nothing else.
So nothing fancy. That's the cheapest
that you could have.
And on top of that, not sacks and
sacks
of barley.
She said, what? A little bit of barley.
That's what she had. That's what he left
Aisha
He is the best man
and she is the best
wife,
and this is what he left for her.
But was she complaining?
Was she alarmed?
Was she distressed because of it?
Was she? No. She wasn't.
Because she knew from him, alayhi salatu wa
sallam, that a little bit is enough. That
is zud.
A little bit is enough.
You could eat a little bit,
just satisfy your stomach,
not even be full. Satisfy your stomach, you're
alive, you're well,
you live to a next day. The next
day, eat a little bit, you live to
the next day, and so on.
So they weren't
greedy.
They weren't obsessed with the dunya.
They weren't
living for the dunya.
Where will I travel? What will I eat?
What will I wear?
How do I compare to other people? No.
Their minds weren't in the dunya. Their minds
were in the akhira. And when you're occupied,
right, you will take with the akhira. You'll
take whatever you need from the dunya, but
then you'll go directly back to the akhira.
Like, have you been maybe a person who'd
been studying for an exam?
Right? Really overwhelmed by it.
Did you care really what you were eating
at that time
or simply that you're just eating something to
keep you
up?
Whatever. Just bring me whatever.
It doesn't have to be tasty. It doesn't
have to be even good. I just wanna
ingest something
so I have energy so that I can
keep studying. Right? Because your focus is what?
On studying.
That's how something that grabs your attention in
the dunya can take you away from food.
It's the same thing.
If you your attention is really the it
can take your attention away from food. So
she didn't really care about what food she
has, so she wasn't alarmed because of it.
Now she is a human being like all
of us. She will crave food like all
of us, but she's not obsessed and she's
not alarmed. That's what is there.
And that was satisfying for her,
Now the interesting thing is that
this thing that he had left her, alayhis
salatu wa sallam,
kept giving her as long as she wanted
it from it. Like that barley, that sack,
that little bit of it, she could keep
taking from it and taking from it and
taking from it beyond what is normal.
And they say that is from the barakah
of the prophet alayhi salatu wa sallam
because that is what he left for her.
But when she weighed that,
the barakah went away.
When she weighed that, the went away because
now she knows exactly what is left.
Before that, she wasn't aware. She roughly understands
there is some. How much? She doesn't know.
As long as she was using it like
that, it probably would keep giving her. But
because she weighed it, the barakah went away.
Now some scholars have said this is specific
to the prophet alaihi salatu wassalam because this
is because of his barakah.
Some have said, no. Actually, it could extend
to other human beings.
Meaning what? Meaning when you have something at
home, of course, when you buy it,
you know how many kilograms it is. Right?
You know how many how many liters it
is,
but when you have it at home,
you don't really need to count
how many pieces of cookies you have in
this jar,
how many kilograms of rice you have. If
you use it without greed,
without stinginess,
there may be more baraka in it.
But if you're really eager and you count,
this is the number of cookies left, this
is the number of dates left, there'll be
less barakah.
Why? Because of your own greed.
So if you exhibit generosity
in how you deal with
your house items
and how you give out your house items,
then Allah blesses it. But if you exhibit
stinginess,
then there'll be less barakah in them. So
there's a lesson in that for all of
us. Not only
rely less on the dunya and don't be
alarmed if you don't have it because those
who are better than us had much less
than it and they were favored in the
eyes of Allah.
So no one should say to themselves
because I am poorer than my neighbor or
my brother or my relative, Allah loves me
less.
Because I cannot afford a house as nice
as or a car as nice house or
a dress as nice as so and so,
then Allah loves me less. No.
That's not an indicator.
So not only that but also whatever Allah
gives you, you be generous with it.
Generous in how you use it, generous in
how you share that with others. There'll be
more barakah in it with the will of
Allah azza wa jal. Right?
The following hadith is similar to the first
one that we encountered today.
So Aisha, again, is the one that is
telling us about all these
experiences in the household of the prophet, alayhis
salatu wa sallam. So Urwa ibn Zubayr,
he
is talking to Aisha, radiallahu anha, and she
told him,
She said, indeed,
we used to cite the and then
the 3 crescents
in 2 months,
like for a period of 2 months,
and we would not light a fire in
the household of the prophet.
Right? So in the first hadith, we we
she said 1 month. Here, she said 2
months.
We would not light a fire in the
household of the prophet alayhis salatu was salam.
So he said, oh, my aunt, because Aisha
was his aunt because he is the son
of Asma bintu Abi Bakr. He says, oh,
my aunt,
what would sustain you?
Because he was surprised
because he wasn't living like that at that
moment.
The rest of the people when he was
asking Aisha at that time, he wasn't living
like that. So he was surprised. Oh, my
aunt, how could you live like that 2
months and there is no fire in your
house and you're not eating any hot meal?
How did you live? She said,
She said dates and water. That's what we
used to consume.
She said,
only dates in water,
except that on occasion,
the prophet had
neighbors from the Ansar, and they had milk
animals.
So they used to
milk those animals and share with us some
of that milk. So he would feed us
that. That's the exception.
So whenever they would get that, they would
drink that milk. Otherwise, it is what a
diet based on dates
and water and on time, sometimes it is
milk.
Right?
So again, that is an indication of how
the prophet salallahu alaihi wa sallam lived on
little
and his family,
may Allah be pleased with them, were satisfied
with that. They weren't weren't rebellious.
They weren't seeking the dunya. They were satisfied
with whatever satisfied the prophet alayhi sallahu alaihi
wa sallam.
The following hadith also
similar to this one, Aisha said,
Says he had passed, alayhis salatu was salam,
and he was not full
of bread and oil
in twice in a day.
He did not have his fill of bread
and oil twice in a day, meaning if
he eats it once, he doesn't eat it
twice.
Right? And here we're not talking about any
expensive or fancy food. What are we talking
about?
Bread and oil.
Now perhaps,
the poor among us today don't live like
that.
Right?
The poorest among us today don't live like
that, simply on bread only
and bread only once a day.
But the prophet
tolerated that
and in fact he chose that.
And that tells you that when you're like
that, the love of the dunya had been
extracted from your heart.
Right? Of course, did the prophet alayhis salatu
sallam love meat?
Yeah. Right? He loved meat. So it's not
that he had became
nonhuman.
He's still human.
He has this appetite. He has this craving,
but he's not working for it and he's
not living for it. You know how some
of us live for food?
Right? Like, what's the thing that makes you
happy?
I'm gonna go out and eat.
Right? I'm gonna go out and drink.
Here's the question. What if you cannot go
out and drink and eat and drink?
What hap what happens to your happiness?
If your happiness is hostage
to eating outside,
what if you can't afford it?
Are you gonna be miserable
and sad?
What if you cannot drink this ABC?
You're gonna be sad because of it?
Talib, the prophet didn't live like that. His
happiness was not derived from food and drink.
Although they do influence our mood. Right? No
question. But his happiness wasn't derived or based
on eating and drinking. So where did it
come from? It had to come from somewhere
else.
Where did it come
from? It's a connection with Allah
Right? And you know in the hadith where
that's related to fasting,
the prophet used
to do wisal,
which is something that is disliked for us.
What is wisal?
He would connect his maghrib to his fajr,
meaning he wouldn't eat.
Right? So when it's time for maghrib, he
wouldn't break his fast.
He will continue
fasting till fajr
and continue fasting for a whole
2 days,
consecutive days or 3 days.
And the sahaba wanted to imitate him
and he didn't want that for them
because this is special for him. And what
did he
say? I'm not like you.
You say I spend the night with Allah,
he gives me food and drink.
Right? He gives me food and drink. That's
not that's not physical food and drink
because if he were to eat and drink,
he wouldn't be fasting.
But what is it that the scholars have
said? How did they interpret that? Is that
his proximity
to Allah, Az Zohil, injects him with so
much happiness
and so much energy
that it
excludes the need for eating and drinking.
Can you imagine that?
Right?
Excludes the need for eating and drinking. Just
like for instance, if you wanna kinda approximate
bringing closer to home, if you're so happy
you forget to eat.
Does did that happen?
Maybe somebody said, no. It never happened to
me. Right?
But maybe you were so happy or so
busy, you forget to eat.
So he say he is so consumed in
it that he didn't need to.
He's aware of eating and drinking, but he
didn't need to.
So here, he wasn't full
of bread twice a day.
Right? Now, I mean, of course, you could
try
it just so so that you would experience
what is it like if I were today
or tomorrow only eat dates for the entire
day and nothing else?
Just as an experience. You don't have to.
But I'm saying just on this experience. What
if there is no meat? What if there
is nothing?
Will I still be faithful? Will I still
be close to Allah Azzawajal? Will I still
stand in salah and worship? Will I still
pray?
Will I say be,
saying,
will I stay be close to Allah or
will I be rebellious because I didn't get
my portion for today?
So the gratitude of the prophet alaihi salatu
wasalam was not about how much food Allah
is gonna give me today and so that
makes me grateful, it was about something greater
than that which is his relationship with Allah.
He said
he says when the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam passed away, that is the time when
we got our fill of dates and water.
Meaning before the death of the prophet, alayhis
salatu wa sallam, they didn't have enough dates
and water.
But towards the end of his life, they
said after
Khaybar was conquered,
they had a lot more dates.
And that is that's the time when we
got
enough dates.
Before that, it wasn't enough. So even when
it came to dates, it wasn't in abundance
until
late in the life of the prophet, alayhis
salatu was salam, and that is when Khaybar
was opened or conquered.
Following hadith also similar along the same lines,
He said Abu Hurairah, he said, I swear
by the one who has Abu Hurairah's soul
in his hand, meaning Allah
Allah as the prophet did
not make his family full.
3 consecutive days
of,
bread made made of wheat
until he passed away.
That is from his life, from the beginning
of his migration, till the time that he
had passed away. He did not or wasn't
able to fill the the stomach of his,
family
with bread made of wheat for 3 days.
So if they ate it, let's say, one
day or they ate it 2 days, they
couldn't on 3rd.
So, again, it tells you
not only about the prophet
but also about the condition of the rest
of the sahaba, the rest of the ummah,
and the how hard it was for them.
And the question always that you need to
ask yourself is
why did Allah, azza wa jal,
right,
have them experience
that type of difficulty in the beginning,
especially in the beginning of their hijra,
with all the
possibility of
outside attacks
and inside betrayals from the hypocrites.
But this with all of that
and and, you know,
endangering their own lives when they go to
battle, and the lives of their families, and
the life of their kids, and all of
this, but it also was economically hard on
them. The dunya wasn't giving itself to them.
So why is it that they had to
go through this?
And if you remember last time we said
that Allah
does this so that he would extricate,
take out the love of the dunya from
their hearts.
Right? So that they don't lean on it.
They don't desire it. They don't want it.
They have power over it.
They can say to themselves, yes. We'll continue.
We'll go out to jihad even though we
don't have much,
and we'll sacrifice the little that we have
for Allah's sake.
And we have no promise from Allah
that we're gonna live to see days of
abundance and riches. None of it. So we
will do this for Allah's sake,
and we will sacrifice all of the dunya
for him. So when the dunya means nothing
to them
and when they have power over it, that
is the time when they have conquered
it. And that is the time when they'll
be ready to receive the dunya.
Then Allah can tell them here's gold and
silver, but they already are past that.
They don't care about it.
They can take that gold and silver
and it doesn't corrupt them,
and they can distribute it.
So Allah Azzawajal wants to immunize them, protect
them from the corrupting influence of the dunya
by distinguishing
between those who are seeking the dunya and
those who are seeking the akhirah.
So he says what? Are you a seeker
of the dunya?
Some of you is yes. He says I'm
gonna take more of the dunya from you.
Now you have to make a choice. Am
I a man of the duniya or a
man of the akhirah?
If you are from the a man of
the duniya, then you will leave Islam. You're
a man of the akhirah, you'll say, I'll
prefer the akhirah. Forget about the dunya. They'll
take more of the dunya from you. And
you are still patient,
then Allah had purified you from the dunya.
You don't care about it whether it comes
or goes.
When you have passed that test, then Allah
says now you can handle the dunya, but
before it, it will corrupt
you. Right?
And now,
he
said he was speaking, and he's a Sahabi,
and speaking to people around him after the
prophet,
He says, aren't you eating and drinking whatever
you wish?
He says, but indeed I witnessed your prophet,
And he could not locate enough bad dates
to fill his stomach.
Right? He says he's kinda contrasting.
He says now you have reached a level,
a stage
of Islam
where you have conquered these lands
where you could eat and drink whatever you
wish.
But I do remember a time with your
prophet alayhis salatu wa sallam, he could not
have enough dakal.
Dakal are dates, but they're not just any
dates. They are the worst of dates.
And, again, it's hard to really
appreciate that because the dates that we have
are good dates. Right?
But the dates that they were talking about
are dates that are dry,
that they don't adhere, they don't stick together,
so they are they are scattered all the
time.
So they are dry,
and they are the worst of any category
of dates. He said even among that, he
did not have enough to fill his stomach,
alayhis salatu wa sanna. So when we're talking
about dates, we're sometimes talking about the worst
types of dates. The dates that if we
were to go to the market today, if
we find them, we would never buy them.
We would never buy them because that but
that was available to him, alaihis salaam. That's
the only thing that was available to him
and yet he didn't complain and didn't dissuade
him
from obeying Allah azza wa jal and giving
and
continuing to fast and continuing to fight for
the sake of Allah azza wa jal. So
you understood that a person like that wasn't
living for the dunya
and wasn't based on the dunya.
And his love and hate and his, happiness
and sadness wasn't connected to the duniya, but
it's connected to Allah azza wa jal. If
it's there, he eats it. If it's not,
he doesn't.
In in another hadith, I mean, the continuation
of that hadith, and he's saying, no, man.
Say, and you have
whatever you want to eat and drink, and
you have,
whatever you wish of dates and the kinds
of dates and butter,
meaning that you could eat whatever you wish.
And even among,
the dates, you have different categories,
that you could eat,
but the prophet
couldn't.
And the
also again he said that,
Omar, he had remarked and he said,
He had remarked and he said, how much
people are indulging in the dunya at his
time. And he said,
I saw the prophet
during the day twisting out of hunger,
could not find enough bad dates to fill
his stomach.
So in a day, he, alayhi salatu wa
salam, would be so hungry, his stomach would
be twisting,
and there would be nothing at home and
nothing outside for him to eat, alayhis salatu
wa sallam, so he had had to continue
struggling with his hunger.
Not even enough bad dates could fill his
stomach, alayhis salatu wa sallam. So it tells
you that
this is this is how much he had
sacrificed
This is how much the
sacrificed. So we take that sacrifice really for
granted. Oh, so yeah. Yeah. They would just
strived and they,
pushed themselves, and they gave Islam to us,
but you don't understand how much they gave
up.
And so
any
effort
to bring Islam
to the way it was,
those who want to do this must endure
the same difficulty.
You with me? That anyone
who wants to bring back the glory of
Islam is not gonna come back
except through the kinds of people who will
do this,
who will withstand hunger to that extent,
who will withstand pressure to that extent until
Allah
sees from their hearts and their bodies that
they love him more than the duniya.
And then Allah's victory is gonna come. But
do we believe that Allah's victory is gonna
come while we are comfortable
eating whatever we want and drinking whatever we
want? No. It's not gonna happen. Not until
you endure a pressure similar to that pressure.
And only then will the victory of Allah
would come. Right?
So this is in the context of people
coming to Abdullah ibn Amrbul,
and they are asking him for money.
Right?
Because he's a deputy or he is a
prince or responsible for distributing money.
So
in the first incident,
someone asked him.
He says,
he says, aren't we from among the poor
immigrants?
Meaning, like, we deserve money because we are
2 things,
and that in itself is an honor,
Right? And also
poor. So don't we deserve money because of
it, because of the honor of being immigrants,
but also because of the need that we
have because we are poor. Abdullah. So Abdullah
asked him.
He says, do you have a wife?
He said
yes. I says, do you have a residence
that you seek shelter in? He said yes.
He says you're rich then.
So do you have a wife and do
you have a house?
Meaning like a shelter and house, what do
you what do you think he means by
a house?
A house,
right? Not a small place you live in,
right? That's what the house is. So do
you have a house? Yeah. Do you have
a woman? Do you have you're married? He
says yes. He says you're rich.
Khala then that say he says by the
way,
he says, by the way, I have a
servant.
He says, you're a king.
That's the redefinition of what a poor
man or rich man means.
So he comes and he says what? I'm
in need. I'm poor.
So he says what? You're married and you
have a house?
Then you're rich.
You're not poor.
Right?
And he says, if you have a servant,
right, then you're what? You're a king.
Now today maybe you don't have a servant,
but what do you have?
You have an oven.
You have a dishwasher.
Right? You have things that could do what
a servant is doing. You have a vacuum.
Right?
So you are or you become a king.
Right?
So
that redefinition is important. Right? That redefinition is
important.
Don't think when you look at yourself, I
have nothing.
I have
nothing. Like,
look at my house and how small it
is compared to their mansions.
Look at my car and how old it
is. Look at, no, look at those who
have less than
you, and really look at what they had,
Muhammad alayhi salatu wa sallam and the Sahaba,
and then you'll understand that you are far
better and far off than
that they were.
So if you are content with with what
you have, you are
rich.
Right? Whatever you have, if you are content
with it,
you're rich.
If you're discontent with it, no matter what
you have, you are poor.
Right?
If you're content with your spouse,
right, I'm talking about men to women and
women to men. If you're content with your
spouse,
they're enough.
That's it. If you are if you they're
fine. The same person.
But if you are discontent,
they're never gonna be enough
because you, this is how you relate to
them. If you're content with your house, this
small house of yours, it will seem like
a mansion. Alhamdulillah,
if you're constantly
praising Allah and grateful Allah had given you
such a place,
there will be barakah in it, and you'll
be happy in it.
Right?
It will seem like it's, what, acres and
acres of land.
But if you are discontent with the mansion,
it will look what?
So small it's suffocating you. So it depends
on what you're content with and what you're
not.
It's all about attitude
and
being content with Allah's,
provision. And
kind of connected to it,
says 3 men came to
He says, oh, Abu Muhammad,
we cannot afford anything. By Allah, we cannot
afford anything. We cannot spend, we can't, afford
an animal, and we cannot afford household furniture,
whether it is something to buy or something
to sell. So no household furniture
that we can afford,
no nothing to spend, and no animal.
He says I give you an option.
If you wish,
you would head back and I will give
you whatever Allah
enables me to give you. Or if you
wish,
I will relay your affair to the sultan,
to the leader, and he will give you
whatever
he can give you.
But if you wish, that's a third option.
Or if you wish, you'd be patient because
I heard the messenger, alayhi salatu wa sallam,
say
He says, or if you wish, you'd be
patient because I heard the messenger
say, indeed the poor immigrants
will precede the rich on the day of
judgment
with 40
years.
They'll be ahead of them with 40 years.
So they
said, then we will be patient and not
ask for anything.
So these are people who came to him,
alayhis salatu wa sallam, and they said, we
have nothing. Can you give us?
So he said I give you the option.
1, I can give you money myself or
the sultan. The sultan can give you money.
The Khalifa can give you money
or a whoever is responsible for baytunal, the
treasury,
or you be patient.
Why be patient? What's gonna motivate you to
be patient? He said, because I heard the
prophet, alayhis salatu wasalam, saying that the poor
immigrants
will enter Jannah 40 years before the rich
immigrants.
So if you wish you could be that,
do you want that for yourself?
Because of that, they said, then we will
be patient and will not ask for anything.
Because patience for a few more years,
okay, with that difficulty
is worth it if you think about 40
years in Jannah
before other people go into it.
You understand what 40 years in Jannah means?
And this person hasn't gone into Jannah yet
because they are what?
Rich.
And because you're rich, what delays you?
The questions about what did you do with
your money, how did you get it, and
what did you do with it. So you're
held back to answer those questions.
And this person has rights connected to you
and you have rights connected to them, so
you have to finish all of this before
you enter Jannah. The poor person on the
other hand has none of that,
so they are free.
So they enter Jannah first.
So 4 years of living in Jannah before
the rich person even stepped a foot into
it. So they drink from it and they
eat from it and they're clothed from it.
So they say to yourself is this worth
it or not?
Yeah.
Because in another hadith it says 500 years,
not just 40. Another hadith it says that
the poor go into Jannah 500 years before
the rich people do.
So how many years on earth are you
going to live as a poor person?
60, 70?
Right? Maybe not even so.
Does that compare to 500 years in Jannah?
No.
So that's why any person who is poor
in this life and you think that you
have been, what, shortchanged or you don't have
what you deserve,
think about that poverty or having less of
the dunya meaning means having more of the
akhirah.
This is not to advocate
becoming poor, just, like, force yourself to be
poor. No.
If Allah gives you money, Allah gives you
money. Take it, spend it in ways that
Allah
loves. Right? But if you happen not to
be as rich as other people
despite your effort, if you happen to be
poor despite your effort,
should you be angry?
Should you be protesting?
Should you blame
your fortunes
or blame Allah Azzajal or
no. Why? Because you say
Allah only took it away from me to
give me something better.
What is this thing? Is what the prophet
had said. You will enter Jannah
and get to enjoy all of that before
the rich people do. So when you look
at the rich, don't envy them.
You have to feel sorry for them.
Right?
And if you have money, you have to
be what?
Vigilant that it's not gonna hold you back.
It's gonna advance you, not hold you back.
Now come on the day of judgment and,
oh, you stole somebody's money and you took
somebody's right out of greed. That's gonna hold
you back or put you in hellfire.
So this money then is not a nema
for you.
Nema it's a nema for you if when
you take it, you spend it in ways
that are permissible
and in ways that are recommended or obligatory.
Then that elevates you. But if not, it's
a curse, not a blessing. So when you
see the rich and you see how they
are squandering their money or they're buying with
it, what displeases Allah,
don't
admire it. Pity them.
Feel sorry for them that they're gonna have
to answer to Allah,
why did you spend that money like that,
1,000,000 or 1,000,000,000 of dollars,
and feel fortunate enough that Allah had saved
you from that?
So even if it was only 40 years
in heaven
before the rich, it's definitely worth it.
So understand that
any,
any
misfortune in the duniya, if dealt with properly,
is an elevation in the akhirah.
Any decrease in worldly fortune,
whatever that worldly fortune may be,
is a elevation in the akhirah, if you
are patient with it.
And that is why the prophet
said that as an example,
because he was given the option. Do you
want to live like a king or you
want to live like a slave?
And he chose to live like a slave
to have just enough
because that's honorable.
Right? So this is what tells us that
you could you could have a lot of
money.
You could be a millionaire in the bank,
but the way that you live, you live
like Muhammad alayhis salatu wa sallam.
Money doesn't tempt you. Money doesn't change you.
Money doesn't take you away from Allah azza
wa jal. But you get it and it's
in your hand and when Allah says spend,
you spend
and your heart is with Allah Azzawajal.
Okay, Insha'Allah. So we'll stop here
Anybody has any
question?
Nothing?
Exactly.
So he's the brother is asking. He says,
when we,
explain the condition of, the prophet
of how little he had, was that the
norm
of all of society,
or did some people have more? No. Some
people had more.
Right? In evidence with the fact that the
prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam once came out
and he was hungry. Abu Bakr was hungry,
Omar was hungry, and then one from the
Ansar received them and he gave them food.
So obviously, he had food that they didn't
have,
or that,
the neighbors of the prophet
who had milk animals and they had
milk. So they had that with them, and
sometimes they would give the prophet
so they had a little bit extra.
So not everybody went at the same level
of the prophet, alayhis salatu wa sallam, but
many were,
but not everybody.
And the prophet, alayhis salatu wa sallam, in
particular, he was very generous. So even if
he had something
so we know that from other hadith after
Khaybar
was opened
and he had a portion of land for
him, alayhis salatu wa sallam, he would receive
a lot of dates. So he would set
aside
what it would be enough for his family
for an entire year.
So some people ask then how come the
prophet alaihis salatu wassalam had less even though
he had set aside
that much?
They said because whenever somebody came and asked
him, he would give.
If any guest comes to his home, he
would give. So he would run out, alayhi
salaahu alayhi salaam. So some people who would
have more than the prophet, alayhi salatu wa
sallam.
Okay.
Yeah.
Lucas?
No.
I'm zakalakaib Barakalafi. So I'm going to repeat
that?
It's okay. No. No. I can repeat it
inshallah so everybody can hear it. So Barak
Alafi is is mentioning a hadith of prophet
So it says if somebody wakes up in
the morning and he is healthy,
he is healthy,
and,
he is secure,
and also he has the food for today.
It's as if he has this whole world.
Right?
So if you live and you have these
three things that you're healthy, you're safe, and
you have enough food to eat for today,
then you have everything that you need from
this world.
Right?
Everyone who has anything else more than that,
that's extra. But this is the basis of
happiness.
So if you just wake up today and
you say, Alhamdulillah,
I'm healthy. Alhamdulillah, I am safe. I have
enough to eat. You say to yourself, what?
I'm living like a king.
So if you're satisfied with that,
then the rest of the day your heart
will be open and the chest will be
so open, they'll be grateful for anything that
you receive extra.
But if you wake up and you just
look at what is missing from your day,
then you'll never be happy. Even if whatever
no matter what Allah gives you, you'll never
be happy. So again, it's about
attitude. For bringing this up. So, inshallah, we'll
next week at the same time.
next week at the same time.