Mustafa Khattab – Types of Generosity

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.