Mustafa Khattab – Closer to Allah 14 Money Matters Ramadan 2011

So it's very,

astonishing to see people in Ramadan gaining weight.

Okay? People should lose weight but for some

reason everybody I see people gaining weight in

Ramadan.

And what is even more astonishing to see

someone who has been married for 10 years

and is still smiling.

Okay? This is usually a screen scraper,

screen saver.

And this is one of the very effective

survival techniques

that people have developed over the years.

Ayyum Shama Anakhi

An

Ihdaan Rasali Al Abi Qapada Wa

Ta'ala wa He had infirmed

Islam.

There are 3 types of Ibadat in Islam

as we mentioned before.

There is the verbal Ibadat

and this includes the recitation of the Quran

and Dua. You do it with your tongue.

Then there is the physical Ibadat

and this includes

Salah,

Psalm,

Hash, Umrah

and so on and so forth.

The third type is the financial Ibadat and

this includes Zakat,

charities, Zakat al Fitr, and so on and

so forth.

So most of the people, they focus on

the first two, but when it comes to

the third type, they are stingy.

They hold very tight to the money.

Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala

Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala says in chapter 4,

You will never

in Sahih Muslim, the Prophet says

that charity

or giving out in charity is a proof.

A proof of what?

A proof of your iman, a proof of

your taqwa.

People can just say we are believers,

but when it comes to giving,

they withhold.

So Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala in the Prophet

SAW Say that giving out in charity

is a proof of your faith, is a

proof of your iman

at

So sometimes when the Muslim community needs your

contributions,

when the schools, the Muslim schools need your

attention

and assistance,

and when the brothers and sisters in Somalia,

they need your assistance,

sympathy itself is not enough.

Dua for them is not enough.

You have to take something out of your

pocket and give it to them.

This is the best way to show support

and to show sympathy.

But just saying words,

shallow words, will not mean anything. And eventually,

Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, who will call

it. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala,

Whoever will give a loan to Allah Subhanahu

Wa Ta'ala and Allah will multiply it infinitely.

So Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala is not asking

to take your money. He will say, I'm

gonna take it, but I'll give it back.

Otherwise, the people would withhold and keep the

money for themselves.

So Abu Luh

Anhu said that the prophet

was the most generous of all people,

but he was exceptionally generous in the month

of Ramadan.

Sahib and this is in Sahib Muslim.

So in this Hadith,

a woman

saw or made

a a coat

or a a a garment for the Prophet

SAW.

So when he wore it, he came to

the masjid, one of the people in the

masjid, one of the Sahaba saw it and

he loved it innocently.

So he came to the Prophet SAW Salam

and said,

okay, I love this, I love this garment.

Why don't you give it to me?

And that was the only one that the

prophet SAW Alaihi Wasallam had. So the prophet

SAW Alaihi Wasallam took it off

like this

and he gave it to him.

So after the prophet left,

the Sahaba came to this companion and they

said, shame on you. Shame on you. Why

don't you take the coat? The only coat

that the prophet had. He said, I didn't

want to take it from myself. I took

it, so when I die, they make it

as a shroud for me. So when I

go to the grave, Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala

will protect me from the grave and forgive

me.

And in one of the hadith that the

prophet said

that this companion, Noyaman,

will come in the day of judgement smiling

because he used to make the prophet

laugh all the time.

So Anwaraman

knew about the generosity of the Prophet SAW

and he was very generous,

so he took advantage of the Prophet SAW's

generosity.

So in in some of the hadith, whenever

fruits

or any food was brought to Madinah, this

companion, Anu Ayman, who who used to make

the prophet

smile, he would buy from the peddler and

take the food to the prophet sallallahu alaihi

wa sallam with fruit. And when the Prophet

SAW Alaihi Wasallam eat on the Sahaba, then

the owner, the peddler would come asking for

his money. Where is my money?

Then, Anuraman would tell the Prophet SAW Alaihi

Wasallam, Paying it.

Then the Prophet SAW Alaihi Wasallam would say,

I thought it was a gift.

So the madman would say, yes. It's a

gift. But I never said I'll pay for

it. You're paying for it.

So the girl would say,

Can you join the salah with the intention

of Isha? So the imam is praying 2

rakas for Tawgir. Can you pray Isha? Be

mad the imam with different intention. If you

know the answer, inshallah, email me before tomorrow,

us@[email protected].