Sadullah Khan – 11th Post Witr Talk Ramadaan 14442023

Hello, Akram.

Hello, Akram.

Aloha.

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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.