Mustafa Khattab – Muslim Manners 20 Generosity I Ramadan 2012

So the last 10 days and 10 nights

of Ramadan will start tomorrow at sunset

and with the beginning of the night of

21st

of Ramadan.

20 days are gone. 1 third of the

month is left. So you still have a

chance inshallah to make up. Salaamu Ta'ajid will

be tomorrow night at 3 in the morning

and the ufana for

Thursday morning. Yes. Thursday morning at 3 AM

and the ufana for would be 10 minutes

after

So for the past few weeks, a few

days, we spoke about the verbal Ibadah like

recitation of the Quran

and and we also spoke about the physical

Ibadah like fasting,

salaab, and

so on and so forth.

And today and in the coming, couple of

days, inshaAllah, we'll be talking about the financial

So today inshallah, we'll talk about generosity and

generosity is one of the attributes of Allah

Subhanahu Wa Salam

So the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam was

the most generous of all people as reported

in the hadith in Sahih al Bukhari. And

he was exceptionally

generous in the month of Ramadan.

So much so

as reported in Sahih al Bukhari that some

of the sahaba would ask for his

clothes and he would take off take off

his clothes and give it to them. So

some of the Sahaba would take his clothes

to be used as a shroud kafat for

them when they die, and would shroud them

in the clothes of the prophet sallallahu alaihi

wa sallam to be a shafa'ah for

them.

The companions of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa

sallam were the most generous after the prophet

sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. And we don't have

enough time to give you stories of their

generosity towards Dawah and with the prophet sallallahu

alaihi wa sallam and

helping Islam in the beginning.

Like the generosity of Abu Bakr Uthman Ali

and the rest of the Sahab

So generosity can be in your manners, the

way you treat people, your attitude, and your

behavior

and with your money.

The prophet says

that smiling in the face of your brother

is a charity. You don't have to pay

the money. You just smile and it's a

charity for you.

And charity with your money, financial

charity. And the first one is the moral

charity.

This beggar,

he needed some money so he knocked on

somebody's door and he said, please give me

some money. I'm hungry. They said, we got

no money. We don't have no food.

So he insisted, they kicked him out and

they pushed him in the street. So he

said if you guys don't have money at

least have some manners. Okay?

The way you talk to people at least

have some manners.

So Al Hadad appointed someone as a ruler,

a governor

for a faraway,

place like a city or village,

and that valley, this governor was away from

his family for a long time.

A guest came to him from his village

so that governor wanted to know about his

family, his wife and because he hasn't seen

them for a long time.

He started to eat and the guest was

sitting in front of him and he didn't

offer him no food. And the guest was

hungry.

So the governor says, how is my house

in the village back home? He said, Alhamdulillah

your house is good. How about my wife?

Alhamdulillah, fantastic.

How is my son? He is very good.

How is my daughter? Rasha Allah. It's everywhere,

all over the place. How is my cousin?

Masha Allah, very healthy.

Then the governor said, you guys take out

the food, I'm not eating.

And the guest was he didn't eat nothing.

So he said to the guest, please tell

me again, you know, how is my family

and everything because I was not paying attention

as I was eating. How is my dog?

So he said your dog died because he

was mad because he didn't eat nothing. He

said your dog died. So he said, how

did

how did my dog die? He said, he

choked on a bone from your camel.

He said,

did my camel die? He said, yes. Because

they overburdened

your camel, carrying stones to the grave of

your wife. He said, did my wife die?

Yes. Why? Because she cried. She broke her

heart crying over your son.

He said, did my son die? Yes. He

said, your house collapsed over him and he

died. The whole family died. The dog died,

your camel died. So he got his gun

to shoot him in the hand, so the

guest jumped out of the window. So this

is the story.