Sadullah Khan – 6th Post Witr Talk Ramadaan 1444 2023
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There are things that
are seemingly
appealing to us, maybe material things.
Yet the value of those material things are
not as much
in the estimation of Allah
except if those things
leads us to faith
and leads us to goodness.
Allah says in the holy Quran,
It is neither your riches
nor your progeny that can bring you nearer
and dearer to Allah.
Except
if you can attain faith
and do good thereby.
We reflect today on an incident
that occurred at the time of the prophet
sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam, documented by historians and an incident
that illustrates
how lineage,
position,
possessions
may make us to focus
so much on what we have
that we may end up valuing things
like our clothes or whatever we have
more than we value the dignity of people.
So the historians document,
A rich man
planned in spotlessly clean,
seemingly expensive clothing,
came to the prophet and sat near the
prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
Then a poor man
came, not so
classy in his dress,
poor,
and came and sat next to the rich
person.
The rich person
pulled his robe away from the poor man
and tucked it under his thigh.
The
prophet asked the rich man,
did you fear that some of your some
of his poverty will rub off on you?
The man said no.
Then the prophet asked him, did you perhaps
fear that your riches will fall onto him?
He said, no.
He said, then did you fear that perhaps
his clothes will make your clothes dirty?
So he said, no. So
what caused you to pull your clothes away
from this man?
The man said, You Rasulullah,
You
say
He said, You Rasoolullah,
I have a partner. Now some say maybe
a partner in the end. Some people say,
me shaitan,
which, since he became so wealthy, became, you
know,
distant distant from the poor, whatever it may
be. You say, I have a partner.
Samu Ala Masih refers to Shaytan inspiring him
negatively. Oh, prophetullah,
I have a partner an associate, sorry,
who beautifies my ugly acts. When I do
something bad, it feels good to me. It
feels okay to me. And when I do
a good act, it makes me think twice.
In other words, it doubts it puts doubt
in my mind regarding the good acts I
do, And when I do something wrong, it
doesn't seem so bad to me.
And he saw that Rasool, salallahu alayhi wasallam
was very upset by this incident, by the
way he pulled his clothes away and so
on. So he said,
I am prepared to give this man half
my wealth.
I'm prepared to give this man half my
wealth.
So the prophet asked the poor man
You ask the poor man, do you accept
all his wealth? The poor man said no.
I don't want it.
So the rich man ask the poor man,
but why not? I'm giving it to you.
So the rich man the poor man replied,
The poor man replied, I fear the same
attitude that came with your wealth may enter
me if I have wealth.
The same attitude that developed
when you got your wealth may enter me.
Among the moral lessons, of course, there are
numerous layers of lessons we can learn from
this, but among the moral lessons we gained
from this
and, of course, there's no harm in being
wealthy at all, but
do not let your wealth
make you feel superior to others. Do not
let your wealth make you feel superior to
others because a person with contentment,
said, wealth is not in how much you
have, it's in how contented you are with
what you have. They asked the rich man,
how much you got? He said, 10,000,000. He
said, how much more you need to be
happy? He said, 5 more 1,000,000. They asked
the poor man, how much you got? He
said, I got a loaf of bread and
a bed bed to sleep. Are you or
how much you desire is good enough for
me. So it's not how much you have,
it's how contented you are with what you
have. The rich man there was 5,000,000 short
of being happy, and the poor man was
happy the way he was. I don't say
he must be poor. I'm just saying. So
among the moral lessons we learned from this,
there's no harm in being wealthy,
but do not let your wealth make you
feel superior to other people. Because a person
with contentment,
a person with respect,
and a person with dignity
is far more wealthy in character
and far more wealthier in the estimation of
Allah than one who has more money than
him.