Sadullah Khan – 6th Post Witr Talk Ramadaan 1444 2023

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.