Ali Hammuda – Casualties of Prohibited Wealth

			Salam aleikum wa rahmatullah. Alhamdulillah wa Salatu was Salam ala Rasulillah. Our analysis
whenever we're presented with a business venture is meticulously thorough, what are the startup
costs? How many partners are involved? What's the likely return on investment and so on? Thorough
		

			in many cases, however, it may not even occur to all of us to ask the most important of all
questions in this business venture. What is the Islamic ruling of it? Is it Khaled and the Prophet
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam had prophesized that such a day would arrive. He said the island nurses
are well known. Now you barely allow
		

			me a name in a minute. I mean, Honey Island and Manhattan.
		

			time will come where people will not care regarding what they take from whether it's from halal or
haram. And what is interesting is that when the Quran spoke of Xena adultery, it elaborated on its
consequences and denounced it with the harshest of expressions. The same can be said about other
sins like alcohol and theft and backstabbing, false accusations and so on. Yet when the Quran
approached the topic of finances, specifically, the using of rebar interest, the language of the
Quran changes to a completely different tone. Allah said for inlanta value, then will be hard to be
mean Allah He was truly he that if you do not desist meaning if you do not desist from interest,
		

			then what then take notice of war from Allah and His Messenger
		

			commenting on this, Abdullah him, as he said, You are due to that he actually Reba who see now how
can it hurt me? On the Day of Judgment, it will be said to the user of interest. Go and fetch your
weaponry and prepare for war. Imagine how embarrassing how humiliating the disgracing This is.
		

			Such as the seriousness of finances, in the eyes of Allah subhanho wa taala. And it's important to
mat clarify a matter at this point. What is meant by prohibited wealth, haram money is it exclusive
to the obvious sources of haram like through alcohol drugs, gambling theft interest? No in reality,
the concept is far wider than that. It encompasses Count with me, it encompasses number one,
earnings that are sourced from the impermissible avenues like the selling of drugs and alcohol
tobacco. Number two, it includes the impermissible products as well for where the money is made,
like pork and alcohol, even if it's purchased from Halal wealth.
		

			It also includes number three to permissible products, vegetables, fruits, beef, right when it's
purchased from haram wealth.
		

			So the concept is, is wide. In fact, the concept of private wealth is so far reaching that the
squatters have even discussed the ruling of an employee praying voluntary units without the
permission of his employer.
		

			So the obligatory Salah there is no problem in this. Okay. As for the relative the extra sunnah,
prayers associated with the obligatory ones, scholars have two opinions. There's a group that say
there's no permission required
		

			that because they're very emphasized in status, and then you have another group of scholars who say
that no permission is required. And as for the nonspecific voluntary units of prayer, Imam Muhammad
fatwa was of the view that one shouldn't engage in them, if they will minimize the employers benefit
in any way. Why? To make your money Hollyanne.
		

			So those lectures, for example, who purposely arrive late to lectures that they're being paid to
deliver,
		

			or those who use their working hours to do their shopping,
		

			to recreationally surf the internet to engage in business ventures, to take their children
somewhere. So on this money, in many cases that you've aren't, you hadn't worked for it,
		

			and may come under the same heading of prohibited wealth. So do you see just how encompassing this
expression is of prohibited wealth? And how serious our Sharia if use it.
		

			So if you've allow this type of money into your account, this means that you've unleashed a weapon
of mass destruction against yourself and your family. The danger of this weapon is that its effects.
They're not always noticeable.
		

			It doesn't make sounds, doesn't tear down buildings. Doesn't really
		

			is no toxic smell. Nevertheless,
		

			it is so ruthless in its effect that it has the power to single handedly devastate your dunya and
your deen and the casualties are beyond count. And I just want to share with you for the sake of
this video, a few of those casualties. The first casualty of prohibited health, in the life of the
believer is your heart. The same way that certain foods are damaging to the physical heart, fast
food, burgers, processed foods, cured meats, deep fried foods, so on foods that blocked the natural
passage of blood through its arteries. There are certain matters that also damage your spiritual
heart, causing a blocking of the passage of Eman happiness and sekedar tranquility well being inner
		

			well being
		

			on one of which is prohibited wealth. And that's why the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said
either now in the lab that either ask for a copy at a new key that we will be looked at to Sudan for
either who Anessa was done for our tab, Sookie la al booboo
		

			that when a servant of Allah commits a sin, a black spot is placed on his heart.
		

			If he then withdraws and seeks perfect forgiveness and repentance, his heart is polished clean, he
said, but if you return to the sin, it will be made to increase until it is covered. His heart is
completely covered. And he said this is the Iran the stain, which Allah mentioned can double
rondalla Columbian America and we actually wound there there is a Iran on their hearts because of
what they used to do. So what happens as a result of such a covering? Well, you fail to enjoy the
sweetness of Islam, you failed to benefit from advice, you struggle to engage your heart inside. You
struggle to activate your heart in Doha. In the recitation of the Quran, mercy and kindness is taken
		

			away from from from a person's heart patients and positivity. They're stripped from a person's
heart, your heart becomes hard. And as a result, even though you may take your body to the places of
goodness, mosques and Islamic lectures and, and gatherings of remembrance, you feel like you've left
your heart somewhere else every single time, like a car that simply fails to start.
		

			And you ask in desperation, what's wrong with me?
		

			Have you heard had the ability to speak it would say to you, you're prohibited wealth that's
suffocating me. It's your money that suffocating me. That's the first casualty your heart. The
second casualty of allowing prohibited wealth into your life is your sadaqa at your charity.
		

			Due to the prohibited wealth that you refuse to investigate and avoid, you have successfully managed
to close the door of charity between you and Allah. And the fact that you're Zeca comes under this
category category should terrify you and terrify me. Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said
Benjamin Allah Allah and haram and tomato sadaqa de la mia Kula, houfy agile Wakanda is who Allah
He, whoever accumulates prohibited wealth,
		

			that gives it out in charity, he will not be rewarded for it, and will have to bear the consequences
of the sin of it as well. So Hannah,
		

			so you may ask, how is it that my charity will not purify me from my sins? So if he had authority he
answers this question. And he says by calahonda fifth pa de cada Campo Hara soba will boldly will
sell Bula Yoda hero who in the law was Dambulla you can you know who in their hand. He says whoever
spends prohibited wealth in avenues of goodness
		

			is just like a person who tries to clean his clothes with urine. He said clothes cannot be purified
except with water and sins cannot be erased except that the 100 Allahu Akbar, that's the second
casualty, your sadaqa your charity. The third casualty of allowing private wealth into your life is
your DUA.
		

			What good is there in the life of a person when the rope of Doha between him and Allah has been
severed? Such a person will be left to himself. His voice of dua has become of no interest to Allah.
The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam made mention of a man who used to suffer and shatter
algebra. You have to do it in a seminar era Dr. Rob will knock out Ohara Wabasha boo Hara
wallbuilders Ohara will be able to haram fandangle stage Jabali Danek, a person who was journeying a
long distance, but he was disheveled, dusty, and he's spreading out his hands to the sky in Doha,
saying My lord, my lord, my lord, the Prophet said but his food is haram. His drink is haram. His
		

			clothing is haram and he has been nourished with the Haram
		

			So how can the heck do I be answered? How could this not be answered? Look at this hadith, Allahu
Akbar, all of the means of accepted dua were with this person. Remember he is traveling. He's at a
humble state. He's raising his hands and dua, he's repeating his dua. All of these things usually
produce a accepted dua. Yet, all of these elements combined did nothing for him because his wealth
was haram. And it's well known that Sadiq who cause
		

			his dua was answered by Allah every single time that he was asked the question that why is it that
from all of the companions of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam?
		

			It's your dua that is answered, how come?
		

			And his answer was very clear. He said, the model of how to Illya Thermae look, but then, in our
other olive, with a major ad, I mean at Rajat because in my life, he said, I have not raised any bit
of food to my mouth, without knowing the details of where it was sourced Allah. That's the third
casualty
		

			of someone who allows haram wealth into his or her life. The two are the fourth casualty of for
someone who allows haram wealth into their life, your acts of worship at large.
		

			So the harm of prohibited wealth is not limited to dua, but extends its cancerous roots to every
aspect of your worship your Salah and your fast and your hedge. Your worship in general, is all of
the money in the world worth it.
		

			That's why Allah Zadie he said that a better to buy a clean Harami can be easily avoided behalf that
a person's worship whilst consuming the prohibited is like constructing a building on top of the
waves of the oceans.
		

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			and the badass you would say like Badulla who saw that debris in Fiji ofI Hara, Allah does not
accept the salah of a person who has prohibited within him meaning the reward is rejected. You still
have to carry it out, but the reward where's the reward? So how tragic it would be to have your
1000s of pounds dollars that maybe you'd spent on say Hajj.
		

			And the weeks that you'd spent away from family and comfort? Rejected?
		

			what a what a calamity. So how accurate were the words of a poet who said either Hijjah be bad in a
slew Denis firmer Hydras Dawa Anakin Hagerty the hero Lai Akbar Allahu in the Aquila for you. But in
the cooloola debate Allah Hebrew.
		

			He said that if you've performed Hajj from wealth at source from impurity, then you didn't perform
Hajj but your animal did.
		

			He said Allah did not does not accept only that which is pure. Therefore realize that not every Hajj
is mobile or meaning accepted. That's the fourth casualty, your acts of worship at large, the fifth
casualty of allowing private wealth into your life, your Baraka, the blessings.
		

			With this devastating weapon of private wealth, the baraka in your life will begin to experience the
throes of death.
		

			And the true extent of this loss can only be appreciated when we understand what the concept of
Baraka is. So, what is baraka?
		

			We translated loosely as blessing what is baraka? What is blessing Aradippou Allah's finding, he
said albaraka to hear Cebu to say the inner he Sheikh Al Baraka is when Allah allows goodness from
him, to reveal him something
		

			to remain this concept of Cebu remaining is integral to the understanding of the word Baraka.
Something that stays
		

			that's why when a camel kneels down in the Arabic language, it's described as doing what Baraka but
I can buy it. Yeah, but I can buy the Campbell Hasbara kit because it's staying where it is, and an
area where water is collected. The Arabs would call it a bill cap, why because water remains. So
Baraka is when goodness stays in something from Allah subhanaw taala take it as a rule in life,
there can be no happiness in the absence of Baraka. Because when Baraka mixes with something that is
small in quantity, it causes it to grow. And when it mixes with something already, huge and
profound, it makes it beneficial.
		

			So should Baraka become part of your wealth, will your health or your time or your children or your
knowledge or anything else, it becomes far more productive, far more beneficial in its effect, it
becomes a means of your success and happiness. And on top of that, their effects remain.
		

			So we need Baraka in our lives. The person who has this will be able to achieve far more
		

			Those who do not, despite the hours of the day being identical in the lives of both,
		

			I mean, think about Saturday evening wife.
		

			How old was he when he became Muslim 30 years old. And he died just six years later at the young age
of 36. Yet his life was full of Baraka saw blessing his life was that when he died, the Throne of
Allah Almighty would shake what must he have done within those six years to achieve the status
Baraka? So we need Baraka in our hours. A person who has Baraka in his time is able to visit
parents, able to pray in the masjid requires few hours of sleep, and more importantly, has the
opportunities of collecting good deeds during the day as well as others who have no Baraka in their
time. However, they need endless hours of sleep, they still feel sluggish. During the day, there's
		

			hardly any time to do anything productive to visit family to make money to worship Allah did we also
need Baraka in our money. A person who has this feels pleased with what Allah has given him or her.
The car tires, they don't always need replacement. Appliances at home, they're not always breaking
down.
		

			Although the income is not great, but the baraka of this money means that you're able to suffice
yourself and your family that you're able to spend on charity as well, and everyone has content.
		

			On the other hand, so may have millions coming in each month.
		

			Because the baraka is missing, they find themselves in debt, or spiritually lost, or experiencing
inner poverty, afraid of being poor, unable to solve the jigsaw puzzle of life spending their money
on medication.
		

			We need Baraka in our knowledge as well. A person who has Baraka in his knowledge finds each Ayah or
Hadith, transformational in terms of what it does for him or her us conduct worship, appearance,
hijab habits, and so on. Others, however, who have no Baraka in their knowledge, they sit in 10s or
hundreds of sermons, lectures, reminders, watching videos like this, but then when they assess their
inner and outer state, no change,
		

			no change, there is no bottlecap knowledge. Baraka in children. A person who has Baraka in their
children finds that his children are inshallah righteous, they're dutiful. They bring happiness to
themselves, they bring happiness to their parents, they bring happiness to their communities.
		

			And this person may be an only child, but that child grows to become a reformer or revivalist a
worship of Allah or their lives. On the other hand, a couple may be parents to say 10 children, but
because there is no Baraka in them, their behavior is deplorable, they neglect their parents, they
Worse still, they lack the motivation to be proper Muslims, they're always at the rock bottom.
		

			So the point of mentioning all of this long elaboration is to say that with prohibited money, Baraka
will be your casualty number five,
		

			the sixth casualty in the lives of those who allow prohibited money into their lives, the door of
halal, the doors of Halal begin to close. It's a bitter reality, but it's true. It's one that states
that whoever rushes to bring his risk as provisions via a door of haram. An equivalent door of how
to Halal will be closed in his or her life. And what's interesting in that many cases, for those who
opt for the prohibited sources of income, they are actually the least in need of it. This person may
already have several properties to his name, several sources of income, a reasonable saving, it
doesn't stop them from pursuing the impermissible. How do you explain that? Honestly, how do you
		

			understand that other than saying the doors of Halon have been bolted shut before them tofi has been
taken away.
		

			And that's why he was narrated that Hollywood why labels entered a mosque in Kufa and requested a
young boy to take hold of his animal whilst he prays inside. When he finished his prayer, he put his
hand in his pocket and he took out a dinner with the intention of giving it to the child as effects
but he found that the child had stolen the saddle and run away with it.
		

			So Ali instead gave the dinar to another person that he said go to the marketplace for me and buy me
a satellite or get home.
		

			The man came back with a saddle and i Lee said Subhanallah This is my saddle.
		

			The man said Yeah, I mean, I bought it from a young man in the marketplace for one dinar.
		

			And Ali said, Subhan Allah,
		

			Allah to add oil to Yahoo, Hana and in Feb 11, Yehuda, Harada. He said, Subhan Allah, I wanted to I
wanted to benefit this young man with this dinar in a permissible way, but he insisted to take it in
the prohibited way. So that Allah doors of Halal will close in the life of this person who ends
		

			sis on prohibited wealth, the seventh casualty
		

			in the lives of those who allow prohibited wealth into their lives, their safety underground. The
moment of soul and body separation will be for a lot of people, the beginning of a brand new phase
of peace and comfort as angels rush to spoil these people in their graves, others however, the grave
represents a new episode of unimaginable suffering
		

			and the companionship of angels who rush to apply the cruelest forms of torture on them. One of the
factors that differentiates between these two outcomes is how a person had sourced his or her
wealth.
		

			Should it be from the prohibited source? Even martyrdom will not intercede for you imagine? And
that's why when the Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam heard companions congratulating the
soul of a Muslim midam,
		

			who died after receiving a straight arrow to his body during one of the battles expedition to paper.
They said congratulations for him. He has entered Paradise, and the Prophet said to them, Canada
will lead fcbd No, no, no, no, I swear by the one who possesses my soul in the sham letter, and let
the Alpha Hi Ramona Maha Demi. Lovato Subhan. Allah Qasim, the Shiloh honey Cynara, he said No,
		

			I swear by the one who possesses my soul, he took a shoal from the spoils of high bar before it was
correctly distributed. And so it's flames are now covering him.
		

			People were horrified to hear this and so one man came to return one or two leather shoe laces that
he'd also taken.
		

			At he said, I took these on the day of high bar, he gave him back. So the Prophet sallallahu alayhi
wa sallam said to him, she raccoon out here aka if Indar those were one or two shoelaces from *.
		

			So if this is the outcome for someone who added to his possessions, something prohibited on the off
chance. What then do you make of a person whose day to day is like that? Day to day? What kind of
surprises await such a person that's casualty number seven. As for casualty, number eight, in the
lives of those who are now prohibited wealth into their lives, your home engender? Imagine the tears
of regret
		

			that some will shed on the Day of Judgment when paradise is within sight, but they're prohibited
from walking through its gates because of prohibited wealth.
		

			The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said to the companion gab
		

			Yeah, God boo boo, oh, Jura in the hula hula agenda, la Mon. We're double data Allah so within an
hour I will be here Okay, maybe not Audra any person whose flesh and blood was nourished through the
impermissible cannot enter paradise. The Hellfire is worthy of them.
		

			In conclusion,
		

			easy returns and quick turnovers. We are maybe this is the type of money that the prohibited sources
may bring.
		

			But beware of convincing yourself that this has anything to do with success.
		

			It is simply impossible to disobey Allah Almighty and then succeed.
		

			Just as it is impossible to obey Allah and then fail, whilst noting that success and failure are not
measured by what you see in the hands of people today, but in the outcomes
		

			and that's why the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said either right Allah your Athena abdomen
the dunya Allah the house he he now your head boo for endeavor who has to do Rajan been Allah.
		

			He said Alayhi Salatu was Salam that if you see that Allah is giving someone from this life or what
he wishes, whilst this person is engaged upon that which is wrong. They know that Allah is baiting
this person to their destruction. And then the Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam recited
the verse in the Quran which confirmed this meaning Bulama Nashoba look up for him Abu Allah
coalition when they forgot our reminder. We opened for them the gates of every good day they're very
hobby mount auto until they became proud with what we gave them a continental Dakota. We took them
away suddenly, for either home Mobley soon and lo and behold, they were plunged into destruction.
		

			Now if you are given the option between two paths, one that's downhill and fully paved, scenic,
safe, and fragrant, but it ends in a bottomless pit
		

			Then a second path that's uphill, dark rough in its terrain. But you know what it ends in a top
class chalet. It ends with a swimming pool ends with an all you can eat buffet, which of the two
paths with people opt for? Are so clearly and evidently success and failure are there to be measured
by the eventual destination, not by the ease or difficulty of the journey to that destination with
these types of casualties associated with prohibited wealth, what good is there left in the life of
a person we ask Allah subhanaw taala to inspire us to make the correct decisions