Sadullah Khan – 11th Post Witr Talk Ramadaan 14442023
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The speaker discusses the idea of passive acceptance of money and how it benefits everyone. They explain that people's generosity and charity increases their blessings and that good deeds are of greater value in estimation. The speaker also emphasizes the importance of caring for one's health and being contented with what they have.
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Hello, Akram.
Hello, Akram.
Aloha.
My.
I love my.
A long walk around.
A long walk around.
Moral
guidance from everyday experiences.
Jean Paul Getty
was senior, was an American born British
Petroleum Industrialist.
He founded the well known Getty's Oil Company,
and he was considered the richest man in
the world
in the 19 fifties.
Despite his vast wealth,
Gatti was infamously frugal. In other words, very
tight with his money.
And he disliked the attention that his wealth
brought him,
not because of humility,
but because he did not want people to
request donations from him.
In fact,
he despised what he called
passive acceptance of money. You want money, you
work for it. Don't take money from me.
This is the idea, passive acceptance of money.
And he was thus known not to be
generous at all unfortunately.
In 1973,
he delayed paying the ransom for his grandson.
In fact, he refused to pay any ransom
for his kidnapped grandson,
and he was
course, we are against kidnapping, obviously. But the
point was, he could afford to pay something.
He paid nothing for 6 months until
they cut off the ear of the grandson
and sent it and then he even paid
a fraction and then negotiated.
In his book, his autobiography
titled as I see it,
he wrote pages about why he had a
payphone
installed in his house. When you go to
his house, you're gonna call somewhere, you must
pay. He's a pay phone.
He had a pay phone installed in his
house and in his autobiography. You know, couple
of pages, not a paragraph,
couple of pages
justifying
why he put a pay phone in his
house that if you come to his own,
you use his phone, you pay for
it. Such kind of stinginess
is a kind of a disease, a disease
of selfishness.
In fact, the Rasul
You see, in Islam, we believe
that generosity
and being charitable
increases your blessings.
You see, Rasool said
in a hadith document in Sahih Muslim,
your wealth
does not become decreased by charity. When you
give charity,
your wealth does not decrease. Your blessings, in
fact, increases.
So people of means who are around the
prophet, say the Khadija,
Say Abu Bakr, say,
were wealthy, and their wealthiness
spurred them on to the generosity.
Their wealthiness
spurred them on to generosity.
In fact, the faithful who are wealthy and
generous
are well aware
of the verse in the Quran.
These are but adornments of this world's life
or the life of this world. But the
consequence of good deeds
endures forever. It benefits you in this world
and, of course, eternally in the hereafter.
Good deeds are of greater value in the
estimation of Allah,
and it's much better for you to depend
upon that than depend upon the material wealth
in this world.
And those who are stingy,
due to fear
that their generosity
will deplete
or decrease their wealth,
we need to pay heed to the words
of
Whatever you eat, you consume it and it
digest and it passes up from your body.
Or you wear clothing and you adorn yourself
and eventually, it becomes unfashionable and it wears
out,
or
you use the wealth to give charity
and that charity benefits
the people whom you help and continues to
benefit you in this world and the hereafter.
The rest,
you leave behind when you depart this world.
It's a good thing, by the way, to
note
that Jean Paul Getty's son
junior,
his name is also Jean Paul Getty,
he inherited
part, but still a couple of 1,000,000.
Yet, unlike his stingy father,
he freely gave 1,000,000 in charity. And he
said,
I am privileged
to be the heir to a huge wealth,
and I regard myself
as a custodian of that money for the
benefit of people who need it more than
I do.
So as people of faith,
we need to heed the advice of Rasulullah
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam documented in the
There are 2 characteristics
that can never combine in a true believer.
Stinginess
and bad character.
So together from all of this, what we
always say it's not really important how much
we make, but how much good we do
with what we have. The joy of wealth
is not so much in merely having,
but more in caring through sharing because we
make a living by what we get, but
we make a meaningful life by what we
give
and how contented we are with what we
have. And as said,
wealth is not how much you have, it's
how contented you are with what you have.