Mustafa Khattab – Generosity & Stinginess

Today, inshallah, we'll talk about the generosity of

the Sahaba and the difference between generosity and

stinginess.

So there are 3 different levels of generosity.

The first one, if you give some of

what you have. So if you have a

$100,000

and you give a $100 in charity, this

is not a huge

act of generosity. Right?

The higher level is to give all you

have,

come on. So if you have a 100

bucks in your pocket and you give them

all to salatah, this is a higher form

of salat

or generosity.

The highest form

is to give something you don't have, Like

in the sunan, that the prophet, salam, sometimes

someone will come and ask for a salakat

or,

he's asking for some for food or some

money, and the prophet, salam, searches in his

pockets and he doesn't have anything. So So

the prophet, salallahu alaihi wa sallam, will tell

him go to so and so

and buy fluids from him and tell him

that the prophet, salallahu alaihi wa sallam, will

pay you when he gets some money.

So the prophet, salallahu alaihi wa sallam, will

borrow money to give someone salam. He doesn't

have it in his pocket.

So and as I said, these three examples

exist in the sunnah of the prophet SAWSAL.

When he tried

when he, made the visit of the prophet

when he was about to leave his family

behind, he took all the money and gave

it to the prophet

When

his dad and his dad, Abu Bakr, was

a blind man, he told him, what have

you left for us? So Abu

Bakr filled a bag with, pieces of stone.

So he put his dad's hand on the

on the piece of that, bag, and he

filled the pieces inside. He said, okay. All

this is gold. It's stokes.

So he gave everything to Rasulullah SAWSALAW.

Also,

So

the second type is that you give everything

you have. You can see this in the

story of Ali ibn Abdul Talib and his

wife Fatima. They were fasting in Ramadan.

They have one loaf of, bread,

and they were about to eat to eat

it. Then someone knocked on the door. What

do you want? I'm hungry. I need food.

So they gave

him all the food they have, and that

person was a poor person.

The second night,

same thing. An orphan came. The 3rd night,

Yani, a captive,

a a war, Yani, a captive

or prisoner of war, and someone was free.

He doesn't have anything. He was asking for

food, so they gave him everything, and for

for 3 nights, they didn't eat anything except

water.

And therefore, this Ayat in Surat Al Insano,

Surat Al Dhan was revealed. They give the

food, although they love it and they are

in need of it, to the poor and

the orphan and the prisoner of war. So

this Ayat is talking about Alim

So the opposite is stinginess,

we you wanna keep everything for yourself. You

have a lot,

but you don't want to share. You don't

want to give anything to anyone,

although you have a lot. So if you

have

$10,000 and there's a poor guy asking for

money,

oh, there's a good cause. They are building

a masjid or they need to send, you

know, any,

humanitarian

assistance to our brothers in Gaza or Syria,

and I don't want to give them. $10

or a $100 is not gonna make you

a poor person, but still,

you don't want to share.

So in this story,

one person was a poor person, so one

of his friends said, why don't you go

to your neighbor so and so? He's a

rich guy. Ask him to give you nice

clothes.

He has a lot of hamdulillah. He said,

what are you talking about? He's not gonna

give me a quote. Wallahi if yahoo balayhi

salam

visited

him, and he sent all the angels and

all the prophets to make shafa'ah,

and his house is full of needles.

So he can, yahuubaalaihi sallam, can borrow a

needle

to sue the,

shirt of Yusuf, alayhi salaam, who was ripped

from the back. He would never give it

to him.

What are you talking about? You're not gonna

give me a coat? No. We'll never do

it.

So this guy, Abu Aswad Idu'ali, who was

a scholar of the Arabic language, and he

was very famous, for,

stinginess,

you know.

So one story today that will continue next

time,

he left his town, and he traveled to

another town for work,

then a person from his original village came

to visit him,

and he came, and Abu Asadu, as what

he do, and he was eating lunch.

So this guest was hoping that he would

invite him for lunch, but

he was not lucky enough.

So he said, I'm gonna tell him something

nice about his family so he will invite

me to food because I'm hungry.

So he told him, Alhamdulillah,

on my way to visit you, I passed

by your village or your town and your

house, and your wife were in an excellent

condition.

So but as far as I knew what

he wanted to do, so he said, this

is how I left them. This is how

I left my wife and my house, so

there's nothing new for me in what he

said. So he said, but your wife was

pregnant.

So he said, she's always pregnant. Every year,

she's pregnant. What is the big deal?

So he said, she gave birth to twins.

So he said, this is what her mother

always did, twins all the time. So there's

nothing new.

So he said, I gotta change the topic

and give him bad stories. Maybe this will,

soften his heart.

So he said, one of the twins died.

So but that's what Duvalier said, I know

because the mother couldn't breastfeed 2 at the

same time, so one of them has to

die.

So he said, but the other one died

too.

He said, because he was his heart was

broken because of his brother, so so he

had to die too.

So he said, then your wife died. He

said, bye Allah. If you kill all the

people in the town, I'm not going to

feed you anything. Okay?

Put your your heart at ease. Stop telling

me story. So inshallah, I'll continue next week.

Tonight is a test of your generosity. Today,

we have a fundraiser at the Islamic Academy

at 6 o'clock for the people of Gaza

to send them humanitarian and, medical,

material. So inshallah go and support them. And

think about all the stories I mentioned. That's

Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.