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