Sadullah Khan – Developing a Qur’anic Personality To be and What not be. #28

Sadullah Khan
Share Page

AI: Summary ©

The speaker discusses the importance of understanding wealth and the value of good deeds in achieving wealth. They stress that wealth is not measured by price, but rather by value, and that good deeds are far better in value. The speaker also emphasizes the importance of good deeds in achieving wealth and offers a reminder of the holy Material wealth.

AI: Summary ©

00:00:14 --> 00:00:16
			Developing a Quranic Personality,
		
00:00:17 --> 00:00:18
			How to be and What Not to Be.
		
00:00:20 --> 00:00:22
			Islam has given consideration to wealth
		
00:00:23 --> 00:00:24
			from various angles.
		
00:00:25 --> 00:00:28
			Wealth in fact has been mentioned more than
		
00:00:28 --> 00:00:29
			70 times
		
00:00:29 --> 00:00:31
			in 70 of the verses of the holy
		
00:00:31 --> 00:00:32
			Quran
		
00:00:32 --> 00:00:34
			and is often referred to
		
00:00:35 --> 00:00:37
			or parallel with khair, which is goodness.
		
00:00:38 --> 00:00:39
			At times, it's been from
		
00:00:40 --> 00:00:41
			the bounties of Allah.
		
00:00:42 --> 00:00:43
			And like many things in life,
		
00:00:44 --> 00:00:45
			wealth can be positive.
		
00:00:45 --> 00:00:47
			It can be a blessing, what you call
		
00:00:47 --> 00:00:49
			a niyama, which is beneficial,
		
00:00:50 --> 00:00:52
			but could also be negative or detrimental or
		
00:00:52 --> 00:00:52
			a nakma.
		
00:00:54 --> 00:00:56
			It depends on how we acquire
		
00:00:58 --> 00:00:59
			it depending
		
00:01:00 --> 00:01:02
			how you acquire it and on what you
		
00:01:02 --> 00:01:03
			spend it.
		
00:01:04 --> 00:01:06
			That is perhaps why Allah also refers to
		
00:01:06 --> 00:01:07
			wealth in the Quran as
		
00:01:08 --> 00:01:09
			surely
		
00:01:11 --> 00:01:11
			your progeny
		
00:01:12 --> 00:01:15
			and your wealth, immaterial wealth are a test,
		
00:01:15 --> 00:01:18
			a trial, a tribulation sometimes for you.
		
00:01:18 --> 00:01:21
			There is a quranic verse that captures
		
00:01:21 --> 00:01:23
			the essence of a believer's attitude
		
00:01:24 --> 00:01:27
			towards wealth and towards the ownership of property
		
00:01:27 --> 00:01:29
			and puts it in proper context.
		
00:01:29 --> 00:01:30
			Allah says,
		
00:01:41 --> 00:01:42
			Seek
		
00:01:42 --> 00:01:43
			the hereafter.
		
00:01:43 --> 00:01:45
			Seek the other world
		
00:01:45 --> 00:01:47
			by means of what Allah has provided for
		
00:01:47 --> 00:01:48
			you in this world
		
00:01:48 --> 00:01:50
			and do not forget your portion of this
		
00:01:50 --> 00:01:51
			world.
		
00:01:53 --> 00:01:53
			You
		
00:01:54 --> 00:01:55
			won the best in this world but also
		
00:01:55 --> 00:01:56
			the best in the hereafter.
		
00:01:57 --> 00:01:58
			But do good.
		
00:02:00 --> 00:02:02
			Do good as Allah has been good to
		
00:02:02 --> 00:02:04
			you. But in the whole process,
		
00:02:06 --> 00:02:07
			don't engage
		
00:02:08 --> 00:02:08
			in corruption.
		
00:02:10 --> 00:02:12
			Allah does not love those who are corrupt
		
00:02:12 --> 00:02:13
			nor those who transgress.
		
00:02:16 --> 00:02:18
			So wealth could be of use for one
		
00:02:18 --> 00:02:20
			for one's own self, for the good of
		
00:02:20 --> 00:02:20
			oneself
		
00:02:21 --> 00:02:23
			and it can be used for the promotion
		
00:02:23 --> 00:02:24
			of good of others.
		
00:02:24 --> 00:02:26
			It could be used to alleviate
		
00:02:27 --> 00:02:29
			the economic needs of those who are in
		
00:02:29 --> 00:02:30
			distress.
		
00:02:31 --> 00:02:32
			And we realize
		
00:02:33 --> 00:02:34
			the best of wealth
		
00:02:34 --> 00:02:36
			is that which is in the hands of
		
00:02:36 --> 00:02:38
			the generous. The best of wealth in the
		
00:02:38 --> 00:02:40
			hands of the generous.
		
00:02:41 --> 00:02:43
			You see, some people are so generous,
		
00:02:44 --> 00:02:45
			they offer all they
		
00:02:45 --> 00:02:48
			can with all they have with anyone that
		
00:02:48 --> 00:02:48
			needs it.
		
00:02:49 --> 00:02:51
			And others are so stingy, they can't even
		
00:02:51 --> 00:02:52
			offer a smile.
		
00:02:53 --> 00:02:55
			Some people are so rich they offer all
		
00:02:55 --> 00:02:57
			their love with all their heart
		
00:02:58 --> 00:02:59
			and some people are so poor
		
00:03:00 --> 00:03:01
			all that they have is a lot of
		
00:03:01 --> 00:03:02
			money.
		
00:03:03 --> 00:03:03
			So
		
00:03:04 --> 00:03:06
			we need to realize
		
00:03:06 --> 00:03:09
			money is not the true measure of real
		
00:03:09 --> 00:03:09
			wealth.
		
00:03:10 --> 00:03:12
			Money is not the true measure of real
		
00:03:12 --> 00:03:12
			wealth
		
00:03:13 --> 00:03:14
			because you see, we live in a world
		
00:03:14 --> 00:03:16
			of excessive materialism.
		
00:03:16 --> 00:03:19
			We must be careful not to measure everything.
		
00:03:19 --> 00:03:21
			We must not measure everything
		
00:03:21 --> 00:03:24
			by cost at the expense of value.
		
00:03:24 --> 00:03:27
			Don't measure everything by cost at the expense
		
00:03:27 --> 00:03:28
			of value
		
00:03:28 --> 00:03:31
			for we may lose what is intrinsically valuable
		
00:03:31 --> 00:03:31
			by focusing
		
00:03:39 --> 00:03:41
			is This is a story of a poor
		
00:03:41 --> 00:03:43
			man who came to the Sheikh and said,
		
00:03:43 --> 00:03:46
			Sheikh, I feel I'm worthless. I'm hopeless. I'm
		
00:03:46 --> 00:03:48
			worthless. I want to kill myself.
		
00:03:48 --> 00:03:50
			So Sheikh said, You are worthless but before
		
00:03:50 --> 00:03:52
			you kill yourself, do me a favor. Can
		
00:03:52 --> 00:03:54
			I buy your arm for, $10,000?
		
00:03:55 --> 00:03:55
			Okay.
		
00:03:56 --> 00:03:57
			He said, Okay, give me your 2 eyes.
		
00:03:57 --> 00:03:59
			I'll give you a quarter million. Just, Oh,
		
00:03:59 --> 00:04:00
			you know, how can you give me my
		
00:04:00 --> 00:04:02
			eyes? You see?
		
00:04:02 --> 00:04:05
			He's he felt himself worthless because he felt
		
00:04:05 --> 00:04:07
			there's no value to himself. But even if
		
00:04:07 --> 00:04:08
			he looked at himself,
		
00:04:08 --> 00:04:10
			these are things that money cannot truly buy.
		
00:04:10 --> 00:04:14
			So wealth is not always measured by material
		
00:04:14 --> 00:04:14
			possessions.
		
00:04:15 --> 00:04:16
			True
		
00:04:16 --> 00:04:19
			wealth is not measured by price but by
		
00:04:19 --> 00:04:19
			value.
		
00:04:20 --> 00:04:21
			If I were to ask someone who lost
		
00:04:21 --> 00:04:22
			their son
		
00:04:22 --> 00:04:24
			and someone who lost a car, if you
		
00:04:24 --> 00:04:26
			lost your Merc, you'll pay up to a
		
00:04:26 --> 00:04:28
			$1,000,000 to get it back. If you lost
		
00:04:28 --> 00:04:30
			a son, you'll give your entire life to
		
00:04:30 --> 00:04:30
			get it back.
		
00:04:32 --> 00:04:35
			So material things as valuable as they are,
		
00:04:35 --> 00:04:38
			you see, real wealth is measured
		
00:04:38 --> 00:04:39
			by what you have
		
00:04:40 --> 00:04:41
			that money can't buy.
		
00:04:43 --> 00:04:45
			Real wealth is measured by what you have
		
00:04:45 --> 00:04:47
			that money can't buy.
		
00:04:47 --> 00:04:50
			So it's not how much you make, but
		
00:04:50 --> 00:04:52
			how much you do with what you have.
		
00:04:52 --> 00:04:54
			Wealth is not so much in having,
		
00:04:54 --> 00:04:57
			but in how contented we are with what
		
00:04:57 --> 00:04:59
			we have. And therefore, the Rasulullah wala ahi
		
00:04:59 --> 00:05:01
			wa sallam in a hadith documented in Sahih
		
00:05:01 --> 00:05:03
			al Bukhari and Sahih al Muslim.
		
00:05:07 --> 00:05:09
			Real wealth is not measured by how much
		
00:05:09 --> 00:05:10
			you possess
		
00:05:10 --> 00:05:13
			but rather by the contentment of your soul,
		
00:05:13 --> 00:05:15
			by the contentment of yourself.
		
00:05:16 --> 00:05:18
			Among the best wealth that we can, however,
		
00:05:18 --> 00:05:18
			accumulate,
		
00:05:19 --> 00:05:21
			and I want us to be wealthy,
		
00:05:22 --> 00:05:23
			the best wealth we can accumulate
		
00:05:24 --> 00:05:25
			is good deeds
		
00:05:26 --> 00:05:27
			despite people's focus
		
00:05:28 --> 00:05:31
			on material position. As a result in hadith,
		
00:05:31 --> 00:05:31
			in
		
00:05:37 --> 00:05:39
			When a person dies, people say, how much
		
00:05:39 --> 00:05:42
			did he leave behind? And the angels say,
		
00:05:42 --> 00:05:44
			what has he sent forth of good deeds
		
00:05:44 --> 00:05:46
			that will benefit him in the year after?
		
00:05:47 --> 00:05:50
			I leave you with the reminder of the
		
00:05:50 --> 00:05:50
			holy
		
00:05:59 --> 00:06:02
			Material wealth, material things, and your children, these
		
00:06:02 --> 00:06:04
			are adornments of the life of this world.
		
00:06:12 --> 00:06:14
			But the consequence of good deeds
		
00:06:14 --> 00:06:17
			endure forever. When you die, your children will
		
00:06:17 --> 00:06:19
			bury you and your murk will come to
		
00:06:19 --> 00:06:21
			the grave. They'll bring you in the best,
		
00:06:21 --> 00:06:23
			there'll be 5 murks and they'll bury you
		
00:06:23 --> 00:06:25
			and they'll sell it after that. It'll go
		
00:06:25 --> 00:06:28
			to someone else. The only thing that goes
		
00:06:28 --> 00:06:30
			with you is your good deeds. So, the
		
00:06:30 --> 00:06:31
			consequence of good deeds
		
00:06:32 --> 00:06:35
			versus material things and children and all of
		
00:06:35 --> 00:06:36
			these are adornment of this world.
		
00:06:40 --> 00:06:42
			Things that you brag about in this world.
		
00:06:42 --> 00:06:43
			But
		
00:06:44 --> 00:06:46
			the consequence of good deeds endures forever.
		
00:06:47 --> 00:06:49
			Good deeds are far better in value
		
00:06:49 --> 00:06:51
			And to place your hope in good deeds
		
00:06:52 --> 00:06:52
			is far better
		
00:06:53 --> 00:06:56
			than placing your hope in material wealth.