Mustafa Khattab – Types of Generosity
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The speaker discusses the importance of generosity in life, citing the Prophet's advice on being generous with oneself and family. They also mention the importance of being generous with others, such as one's own family, and how it can be a result of one's own behavior. The speaker concludes that generosity with one's own family is the highest form of generosity.
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And we said that generosity is not only
by giving out money to people, but the
highest form of generosity is through your manners,
how good you are to the people.
And the prophet says in the hadith,
you will not be able to be generous
with everyone with your money because your money
is limited, but be generous with people by
your manners.
And in this case, you can be generous
to everyone.
So there they they say there are different
types of generosity.
Number 1, you can be generous with Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
Number 2, you can be generous with the
Prophet SAWSAW.
And you can be generous with yourself.
You can be generous with people. You can
be generous with your family. There are so
many different types of generosity.
Waqalu Al Karam Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
Huwataqwa.
Naktadakila
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
tafal
So the first step is your generosity with
Allah
How can you be generous with Allah
is when you have Taqwa from Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala. Whatever is obligated, do it and
whatever is Haram, keep away from it. And
in this case, you are honorable,
you are Kareem in the sight of Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. And this is mentioned in
the Quran,
Quran, fisulat the Purjulaat, Surah 60 Ayat 13
where Allah, Subhanahu Wa'ala, is actually 49,
Ayat 13
where Allah, Subhanahu Wa'ala, says, indeed, the most
generous of you, the most honorable of you
in the sight of Allah are those who
have Taqwa.
So Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala says it in
the Quran.
That the meaning of this is to follow
the guidance of the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam, and if he made the judgment on
something, you follow his judgment and don't follow
your own desires. And this is how to
be generous with the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam.
So this is also mentioned in an authentic
hadith in the Tirmidhi where the prophet SAW
Hassan says the Beqeel, the stingy person, the
person who is not generous with me, is
the person in front of whose my name
is mentioned
my name is mentioned in front of this
person and he doesn't give salam or salah
to me. So this is a stingy person.
He is not generous with me.
With yourself. And the meaning of this is
when you see something wrong,
don't
don't don't humiliate yourself. Don't disgrace yourself, and
don't get involved in such, stuff. And Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala says in the Quran when
he defies the believers,
are those who went, you know, they passed
by indecency or idle talk or vain talk.
They passed
with kirama, with dignity and generosity.
They honor themselves
by not getting involved.
So the 4th type, and we'll conclude with
this one, inshaAllah,
is generosity with the people, and the highest
form with,
generosity with the people is to be generous
to your own family, your own blood, your
wife, your children, your relatives. And this is
the highest point.
The Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam says in the
Hadith al Sahih Muslim
that
if you give,
money
in the way of Allah Fis Abi Illa,
and if you give money to free Yaniyah
slaves,
or if you give a charity to the
poor, or you use money to provide for
your family,
then the prophet says
the highest generating
of rewards among these types is the money
you provide for your family. This is the
highest
form. And we said that generosity with the
family can be by,
being generous to them in terms of money,
in terms of manners, being good to them,
and and we gave an example of, for
example, a relative of yours is in death,
you pay off in on their behalf.
So, to conclude with this,
funny story. There is this guy
and,
he owed a lot of money to some
Muslims. This guy, he was, He
used to worship the fire,
Zoroastorians,
whatever they call them in English. So when
this man died, he left a son and
he left the house, and, he had a
big debt. So his son knew
if he sold the house, he would not
be able to pay off the debt because
it was a big debt.
So these Muslims came to the guy and
they wanted to, motivate him to pay off
the debt and they said, listen son,
your father is roasting in the hill fire
barbecue because of the debt. You have to
pay off the debt, okay, to make him
comfortable.
So he said,
do you guys think if I pay off
the debt, you will get out of the
Hilfa and go to Al Firdaus?
They said no, because he is scared.
Allah said okay, leave leave him in the
Hilfa and leave me in the house. Okay?
Because if I pay off the debt, he's
not getting out of the Hilfa in in
any way. Right? So leave him there. Does
Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala.