The speaker discusses the fear of the prophets and companions and how they hold strong principles. They also talk about the struggles of a rich companion with high revenues and how they are greedy and exploiting people. The speaker suggests that people in financial poverty are greedy and may want to attain more than their means.
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So now I want to come on I want to live with a cat. So welcome back to prayers of the pious.
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Many of the times when you look at the fears of the prophets and the fears of the companions and the
fears of the righteous, you see that they actually fear things that wouldn't make sense to us
because they were so good at
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so many things. And they were so far away from the evil traits that they feared falling into, that
it almost doesn't make sense. And that's really because of the standards that they held for
themselves. So but on him It has some Abraham has called us to do the truthful one, but it brought
him on as and I'm fear, dishonesty, money. My name is Salaam Ali Hassan has the most modest and have
them all, the greatest and purest woman of them all. But she feared immodesty perhaps more than
anyone else. And that really just speaks to the standards that these people have. So when you think
of a rich companion, the richest companion that you could think of it's probably been over the
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allotted time. And he's a man who is known for his great generosity, I'm the amount of money I would
bring caravans back to Medina. And there would be so much that he would come back with the people
would actually think that Medina was under occupation that there was an army that was attacking, and
he constantly just just gave and gave and gave, so that he could make a case to Allah subhana wa
tada to not just provide more for him in this world that he may continue to give, but that he would
enter him into paradise by his generosity. So he was observed making this one supplication in full
off, over and over and over again Niazi to Allah, meaning he would not do anything but this.
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Imagine this man, this generous man walking across or walking around the Kaaba seven times, and the
only drop he makes is Allahu mfine Shu Han FC Allahumma pinnae Shanahan FC alumna Penny Shaheen FC,
a lot protect me from the greed of my soul or law, protect me from the greed of my soul. Allah
protect me from the greed of my soul. And he was asked why he was only making that. He said, because
if I'm protected from the greed of myself, as any one of us look, what am I trying to say that I
would not steal, I would not commit adultery, and I would not do anything evil. Now what he meant by
that is, first and foremost, there's greed, in the obvious sense that a person becomes greedy with
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their money. And so they start to cheat people, they start to take advantage of people, they start
to exploit people, even when they don't need to, and the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam said
that if the son of Adam was given a valley of golden, he would want a second valley of golden if
he's given two valleys of gold, he tried to convert it into three valleys of golden, he would never
be satisfied, until he has dirt in his mouth, meaning he would continue to always want more and more
and more and more. So that's one form of greed. But what I'm not even really talking about is that a
person who's in spiritual poverty is just like one who's in financial poverty, and starts to exploit
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people as a result of that, or starts to do things as a result of that, that are unethical. And I
should clarify here that I'm not talking about the poor, but a person who always feels like they're
in poverty, even though they may have a lot. And so they start to do things that are unethical and
that are wrong. and in this situation, that's what I'm recommending. And overall, the a lot of time
he was talking about that we send out of a feeling of, of emptiness. And we sin when there's a void
that's not properly being filled. And often that same emotion that triggers exploitation in the
financial sense, allows a person to do things that are that are well beyond the bounds of decency,
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for their self and for their soul as well. So this is a draft that we should learn. This is a draft
that we should say, along the penny, sure enough, see, Oh Allah protect me from the greed of myself
whether that greed is financial, or whether that greed is emotional, whatever greed that is that
would cause me to transgress, and that would cause me to desire or to or to try to attain more than
what Allah subhanaw taala has written for me in a way that is not pleasing to Him a llama. I mean,
does that malachite on inshallah Tada, I will see you next time. Listen, I'm like monumental. I'm an
accountant.
